Virtu
virtu \vuhr-TOO; vir-\, noun:
1. love of or taste for fine objects of art.
2. Productions of art (especially fine antiques).
3. Artistic quality.
Virtu comes from Italian virtù "virtue, excellence," from Latin virtus, "excellence, worth, goodness, virtue."
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1. love of or taste for fine objects of art.
2. Productions of art (especially fine antiques).
3. Artistic quality.
Virtu comes from Italian virtù "virtue, excellence," from Latin virtus, "excellence, worth, goodness, virtue."
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posted by Kurt | 10/28/2006 09:14:00 AM
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Reminds of the time when I used the word "virtu" in an essay about Art. I was on O-level (10th grade), and what I wrote was perhaps a little advanced. But, heck, at those times, there was a vocabulary & grammar race amongst the students.
The teacher refused to accept that there was such a word as "virtu." The coorect spelling was "virtue," she said, and that it was a misplaced word in the context. She didn't accept that I had indeed memorized the word froma fat dictionary somewhere. I changed it very begrudgingly or perhaps not at all...
Wonder why we don't have a great academic tradition? Wonder why the student can not be right?
... Memories!
alas it is sad that there are such fine teachers that will never experience the hight of virtu, the moving senitments of the true sensation of art...
for me, excellence is beauty.
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