amor às linhas encaracoladas
English translation: love of sinuous/curlicue lines
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| Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Essay on artist | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 12:47 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | the love of intricate lines |
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| 4 +1 | love of sinuous/curlicue lines |
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| 4 | love of curly lines |
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| Mirror of the World: A New History of Art |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1the love of intricate lines Explanation: For want of Bell's original phrasing, here is my attempt to imagine what he might have written. Thoughts... words, actually... that passed through my noggin on the way to this line: intricate, delicate, filigreed, intertwined, interlaced, interwoven, braided, tendriled, curling... and back to intricate. (Now I just saw 'labirínticas' and think that 'labyrinthine' would also be nice. But I think 'intricate' isn't half bad, and am putting it out there.) "I have a passion for medieval buildings, particularly Romanesque monastic ... of a Gothic cathedral or the intricate lines of an Irish manuscript page were truly ..." wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/profiles/evelyn-ruth-staudinger/ "Getty Museum's Medieval Manuscripts Exhibition... On first viewing a sample of the Getty's medieval manuscripts in 1997, I wrote, 'Letting your eye course around the intricate lines and details, ..." online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123249604634000237 By the way, here is a gorgeous fragment of English prose I just happened upon, while thinking about this question. I don't think the highlighted terms would work particularly well for the translation Lindsay is asking about, but together they are quite beautiful: "If anyone marked the strange apparition of a pair of medieval monks flapping towards ..... surfaces were not chased with a lacy arabesque of filigreed lines; wave-tumbled rocks ...... He moved to the end of the table covered by his manuscripts..." libes.ru/322790.html |
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5 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1love of sinuous/curlicue lines Explanation: These options give you an idea. The most e -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2013-12-06 04:59:30 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The gremlins posted my answer before I could finish. Another option would be 'tightly curled'. "Encaracoladas" refers to the coil of a snail. |
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love of curly lines Explanation: curly = encaracolada |
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Reference comments
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| Reference: Mirror of the World: A New History of Art Reference information: Mirror of the World: A New History of Art: Julian Bell ... - Amazon.com www.amazon.com › ... › History & Criticism › History Mirror of the World: A New History of Art [Julian Bell] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A vivid and compelling history of human artistic ... |
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