Glossary entry

Italiano term or phrase:

figurativo

Inglese translation:

figurative

Added to glossary by simon tanner
Jan 29, 2008 10:28
17 yrs ago
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Italiano term

figurativo

Da Italiano a Inglese Arte/Letteratura Architettura
"...ogni qualvolta mi trovo a passare dalle parti del Rione Ponte, non manco mai di riguardare attentamente l’eccentricità FIGURATIVA di quel portale (il portale è stato composto pezzo per pezzo, assemblando reperti di spoglio prelevati da altri edifici classici) e di rivalutare criticamente quella propensione per il riuso metamorfico che ho poi ritrovato spesso lungo la mia strada. "
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Feb 3, 2008 15:06: simon tanner Created KOG entry

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Discussion

calleklen (asker) Jan 29, 2008:
I'll go for figurative. Thankyou! But who should I reward som points? James Davis or Simon Tanner? They have both suggested the answer I'll chose...

Proposed translations

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figurative

Figurative, as in 'figurative art' is a commonly used term. The sentence is a bit strange, admittedly, and 'eccentricity' could perhaps work on its own, forgetting about 'figurative' entirely. But if you want to leave it in, why complicate matters?
Peer comment(s):

agree Maria Luisa Dell'Orto
10 min
thanks Maria Luisa
agree Marie Scarano
1 ora
thanks Marie
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
4 min

Symbolic

One of the suggestions of Babylon.

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Note added at 6 mins (2008-01-29 10:35:15 GMT)
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Hoepli speaks of representational which may be what you are looking for.
Note from asker:
fi|gu|ra|tì|vo agg. 1 CO che si esprime per mezzo di figure: stile
fi|gu|ra|tì|vo agg. 1 CO che si esprime per mezzo di figure: stile
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19 min

figurative

Art which contains recognisable likenesses of human or animal figures or more extensively recognisable likenesses of figures of anything i.e. not abstract or surreal art.

figural: consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Garzanti
| si dice di un'opera d'arte o di un artista che si esprime attraverso figure nelle quali è riconoscibile, più o meno direttamente, l'oggetto della rappresentazione: dipinto, pittore figurativo

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Note added at 24 mins (2008-01-29 10:53:02 GMT)
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It looks both figurative in the sense of containing figures (rather than of likeness) and pretty eccentric to me
http://www.tesoridiroma.net/galleria/tordinona/foto/vmascdor...
Peer comment(s):

agree Maria Luisa Dell'Orto
5 min
agree Gian
1 ora
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