Sprezzatura ([sprettsaˈtuːra]) is an Italian word that refers to a kind of effortless grace, the art of making something difficult look easy, or maintaining...

through, sprezzatura." According to the Count, sprezzatura is the most important rhetorical device the courtier needs. Peter Burke describes sprezzatura in...

Castiglione and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa are classic examples of sprezzatura. The sprezzatura of the Mona Lisa is seen in both her smile and the positioning...

MCA Records. In addition to his comedy albums Uno, Pompous Clown and Sprezzatura, in 2007 Pardo appeared on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death-Ray...

Postrel says that for glamour to be successful it nearly always requires sprezzatura—an appearance of effortlessness, and to appear distant—transcending the...

his articles and blog comments under the username "Sprezzatura". In one such comment, "Sprezzatura" defended Siegel's bad reviews of Jon Stewart: "Siegel...

descendants of Africans perpetuated the importance of being "cool". Aṣẹ Sprezzatura Thompson, Robert Farris (1 January 1973). "An Aesthetic of the Cool"...

act in an affected manner, but present naturalness and nonchalance, or sprezzatura. In addition to, The Courtier puts emphasis on the importance of not...

signature brown and orange packaging. The company is an influencer in the Sprezzatura (Italian "casual chic") fashion movement. Its highest-selling products...

ISBN 978-0-8108-4664-7. D'Epiro, Peter, and Mary Desmond Pinkowish. 2001. Sprezzatura: Fifty Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World. New York: Anchor Books....

compositions, though very carefully conceived in drawings, achieve "sprezzatura", a term invented by his friend Castiglione, who defined it as "a certain...

the quality which makes the courtier seem a natural nobleman": sprezzatura. Sprezzatura, or the art that conceals art (in the words of another ancient...

original on March 28, 2014, retrieved March 11, 2014 Art and UFO – Part 5, Sprezzatura.it, November 23, 2002, archived from the original on July 22, 2011, retrieved...

October 2012 D'Epiro, Peter; Pinkowish, Mary Desmond (2 October 2001). Sprezzatura: 50 ways Italian genius shaped the world. Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-385-72019-9...

"Twenty-four: A new world beckons: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, Verrazano". Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World. New York: Anchor Books. p. 180...

chapter with 'Sprezzatura' [Interview] – EARMILK". Retrieved 2024-11-04. "Rock n Soul Band Aloud Releases Muscle Shoals Inspired 'Sprezzatura'". American...

time is well spent building a folly in the back garden and perfecting sprezzatura, the art of acting like a gentleman while making it appear like one is...

tautology and understatement. Brevitas is related to concision, parataxis, sprezzatura and elliptic style. It contrasts with periphrasis, aureation and pleonasm...

The New Republic writer Lee Siegel (posting as a sock puppet called sprezzatura). On December 10, 2007, Klein moved his blog full-time to The American...

for wearing his wristwatch over his cuff and was regarded as conveying sprezzatura, the Italian art of making the difficult look easy. Agnelli's nickname...

universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." For...

500th year from the arrival of John Cabot P. D'Epiro, M. D. Pinkowish, "Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World", pp. 179–180 Williamson, The...

Kitchen, published in 2020 by Avery Publishing, Spungen provides the term sprezzatura, meaning "studied nonchalance", for her philosophy for entertaining guests...

sources. A translation that draws on Scipio's usual superbia over the sprezzatura supposedly demonstrated here might be "The Imperator conducts himself...

Sexiest Men. Newsweek described him as having "what the Italians call sprezzatura, the art of making elegance and intelligence so natural they seem accidental...

interpreted Beatrice's concealment of her love for Benedict as a form of sprezzatura. C. T. Prouty argues that Beatrice and Benedick are a pair of true lovers...

New England. Retrieved March 18, 2021. Roger Angell (March 3, 2015). "Sprezzatura". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 18, 2021. Inside Track | Boston Herald...

The portrait displays the attitude of studied carelessness, called sprezzatura, recommended in The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione, defined...

Hillary Brown linked Trapped in the Closet to the Renaissance concept of sprezzatura and compared it to the work of Stendhal and John Ashbery. John Lichman...

drafts than finished paintings" (lavorava ogni cosa con quella tale sprezzatura... di modo che le sue opere sembrano piuttosto abozzi che pitture terminate)...