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‖ morbidezza Painting.|mɔrbiˈdɛtsa|
[It., f. morbido morbid a.]
1. Life-like delicacy in flesh-tints.
1624Wotton Archit. ii. 89 A kinde of Tendernesse, by the Italians tearmed Morbidezza. 1686W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. i. 21 There is a thing which the Italians call Morbidezza; The meaning of which word, is to Express the Softness, and tender Liveliness of Flesh and Blood. 1722J. Richardson Statues, etc., Italy 58 But the Beauty! the Morbidezza! the Thought and Expression! Good God! 1881Athenæum 19 Feb. 271 Nor does the morbidezza which distinguishes every line of its perfect contours and characterizes all of them detract from the fineness of the whole.
2. transf. (esp. Mus.): delicacy, softness, sensibility, smoothness; sometimes (degenerating into) unwholesomeness, effeminacy, sickliness.
1890E. Dowson Let. c 31 Mar. (1967) 146 As for Browning!.. The subtility, the tact of omission, the Morbidezza! 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Morbidezza,..Mus. Extreme delicacy: a direction to the performer. 1910G. B. Shaw Brieux 3 The artistic morbidezza of Byron and Victor Hugo. 1934Times Lit. Suppl. 3 May 324/2 In spite of a collective morbidezza on the part of Pansy's lovers, the characterization is clean cut. 1947C. Gray Contingencies 118 In spite of its morbidezza and romantic sentimentality it nevertheless retains the purity of line which is the hallmark of all classic art. 1960C. S. Lewis Studies in Words vi. 160 But in Mrs Radcliffe sensibility perhaps implies a more universal morbidezza. 1974Times 13 May 14/7 ‘E lucevan le stelle’ and ‘O dolci mani’ had true morbidezza. |