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Italian to English Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting Translation Glossary

Italian term English translation
colore canna di fucile gunbarrel grey
combinando con armonia ed originalità combining in original and harmonious fashion
Come vivere a colori Living through colours
Committenza privata per il quadro da stanza private commission for cabinet paintings
compenetrazione interweaving
composto dell’intonaco per doratura gesso (mixture/recipe) for gilding
con i pattini on skates/skating lion
con il vincolo della custodia e del restauro with the proviso that they maintain and restore the building/as long as/provided they maintained ...
Entered by: Franco Rigoni
con poco with simple means
Entered by: Tom in London
concentrazione concise/condensed pictorial representation
concetto di patria notion/idea of homeland
concezione unitaria (as a) single unit/sculptural ensemble
Entered by: Isabelle Johnson
condotti sul filo dell’infinitesimale on the edge of infinite smallness
condurrà ogni commensale a vivere la mostra in corso in modo emozionale will make the current exhibition come alive for all diners
conduttore conducting medium
confrontarsi to measure himself
conoscenza di ambiti che devono entrare in dialogo tra loro knowledge and expertise in different areas/domains of the artistic experience
Entered by: Lara Barnett
contaminazione overlap, cross-fertilization, synergies, fusion
Entered by: EirTranslations
contenitore culturale cultural venue
contesto di totale rarefazione a context of total rarefaction
Entered by: Tom in London
contrappone al dilagante novecentismo which he set against the rampant Novecentism that was fashionable
Entered by: Tom in London
controfondato mounted (laid down/glued)
Copertino o Cupertino Copertino (LE)
copia di bottega a copy made in his bottega [workshop]
Entered by: Tom in London
copricassa chest cover
corale polyphonic
Entered by: Isabelle Johnson
cordonato carved in the twisted-rope style
Entered by: Isabelle Johnson
cornice a grisaglia grisaille frame
cornice complessa e unitaria complex and unitary (cultural) framework
coroplastica coroplastics
corpo-merce the body as merchandise
Entered by: Tom in London
cosità thingness
creta e argilla Earth and clay
Entered by: Sarah Weston
criteri dispositivi patterns
croce tabellata crucifix with terminals
culturalizzare contextualize his/her work into
cunei wedges
curatore curator
da cui è nato il regista who was to (eventually) become the director
Entered by: Lara Barnett
da stanza small-scale
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