Ritratto
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ritratto is a noun meaning (obsolete) A picture; a portrait.
Meaning
(obsolete) A picture; a portrait.
Example Sentences
Here are the Ritrattoes of the Family; amongst others some by Titian, Giorgion, &c […]
A little beyond this Vestibule […] is what they call the Painter's Chamber, fill'd from Top to Bottom, with the Ritrattos of all the most famous Men in that Art […]
——'tis more like a ritratto of the shadow of vanity, than of VANITY herself——of the two; resembling rather a faint thought of transient applause, secretly stirring up in the heart of the composer, than a gross mark of it, coarsely obtruded upon the world.
Word Forms
- ritrattos
- ritrattoes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rilievo, render, rhopography, rectrix, rattoner, reredemain.
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