Definition of terribilità in English:
terribilità
noun ˌtɛrɪbɪlɪˈtɑːˌterəˌbilēˈtä
mass nounAwesomeness or emotional intensity of conception and execution in an artist or work of art, originally as a quality attributed to Michelangelo by his contemporaries.
Brown has come up with a new brand of terribilità that may be extrapolated into a sense of the sublime
Example sentencesExamples
- In the David, Michelangelo first displayed that quality of terribilità, of spirit-quailing, awe-inspiring force, for which he afterwards became so famous.
- What the Renaissance called terribilità is not so different from what Burke meant by ‘the sublime.’
- Terribilità is a character-based drama charting the last decade of Michelangelo Buonarroti and his renowned terribilità: terrifying awesomeness.
- Here in the Last Judgement it is the terribilità that so impressed his contemporaries which dominates Michelangelo's art to the exclusion of all else.
- In imaginative force and outright terribilità, it is quite possibly the most crushing and exhilarating exhibition of work by a 20th century artist ever held in the U.S.
- The fierce look on David's face was called terribilità, or ‘awesome power,’ and would forever be associated with Michelangelo and his work.
- The fiery intensity of David's facial expression is termed terribilità, a feature characteristic of many of Michelangelo's figures and of his own personality.
- However, none of his followers matched the emotional intensity, or terribilità, that was a recurrent feature of his own work, giving him within his own lifetime the status of ‘il divino Michelangelo’.