Capriccio (painting)
WordNet
noun
(1) An instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A type of landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting.
- A piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.
Quotations
painting
- 2005 : Above the drawing-room fireplace there was a painting by Guardi, a capriccio of Venice in a gilt rococo frame [...]. - Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, 5)
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