Vertu

Quick meaning: Vertu is a noun meaning (art, now historical) The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.

Meaning

(art, now historical) The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.

More Meanings

1. (art, now historical) Objets d'art collectively.
2. Moral worth; virtue, virtuousness.
3. Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power.

Example Sentences

A Catalogue of a Truly Valuable Assemblage of Articles of Virtu of William Chinnery, Esq. Brought from Gillwell, Essex[…].

To give them their Due, they ſoar a Step higher than their Predeceſſors, and may be called Men of Wiſdom and Vertù (take heed you do not read Virtue).

He engaged a certain Abbé of distinguished taste in virtù to attend them as their Ciceroné, and explain the antiquities brought from Herculaneum and Pompeia […].

Now, when with royal Tranquo I visited this wondrous whale, and saw the skull an altar, and the artificial smoke ascending from where the real jet had issued, I marvelled that the king should regard a chapel as an object of vertù.

Synonyms for vertu

Depending on context, synonyms include virtu, connoisseurship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include connoisseurship, virtu, accordance, beaux-arts, technology, aesthetic.

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