il gusto compendiario

French translation: le goût pour les compendiums

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Italian term or phrase:il gusto compendiario
French translation:le goût pour les compendiums
Entered by: Marie-Yvonne Dulac

11:55 Jun 10, 2015
Italian to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History / Le meraviglie del pianeta
Italian term or phrase: il gusto compendiario
Dalle prime raccolte di epoca ellenistica, che soddisfavano il gusto compendiario tipico del tempo e allo stesso tempo la curiosità nei confronti di un mondo alessandrino dai limiti sempre meno ristretti, l’interesse nei confronti delle “meraviglie” conosce uno sviluppo pressoché costante. Dagli autori latini (Vitruvio, Plinio il Vecchio, Seneca) al De septem orbis spectaculis del V secolo dopo Cristo fino al Rinascimento (epoca in cui viene “ufficialmente” aggiunto il Faro di Alessandria al novero di età ellenistica), il fascino delle grandi opere dell’uomo non smette di far parlare di sé.

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Marie-Yvonne Dulac
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le goût pour les compendiums
Explanation:
C'était une tendence généralisée dans l'époque post-classique de l'Antiquité où l'on comprimait les 142 livres de Tite-Live en un recueil succinct, dit compendium. Cette compression a d'ailleurs facilité leur survie à travers les siècles obscures.
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Spindel
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3le goût de la synthèse
enrico paoletti
3le goût pour les compendiums
Spindel
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Piste
Oriana W.

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le goût de la synthèse


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enrico paoletti
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le goût pour les compendiums


Explanation:
C'était une tendence généralisée dans l'époque post-classique de l'Antiquité où l'on comprimait les 142 livres de Tite-Live en un recueil succinct, dit compendium. Cette compression a d'ailleurs facilité leur survie à travers les siècles obscures.

Spindel
Russian Federation
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Reference: Piste

Reference information:
http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/compendiario/

2. In pittura, maniera c., tecnica pittorica tendente a riassumere fino al puro essenziale gli elementi di forma e di colore (per es., quella della tarda pittura ellenistica). Nell’arte della ceramica, stile c., stile diffusosi nel sec. 16° nella produzione delle maioliche di Faenza, generalm. bianche, decorate sobriamente con poche figure (stemmi gentilizî, amorini alati) che campeggiano al centro, a volte con decorazioni anche sui bordi (tralci, viticci) e pochi colori (azzurro, giallo, arancione, più raram. verde).

Oriana W.
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