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Articles of luxury and virtu are mainly the production of European nations.
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The marble mantels were decorated with articles of virtu, and rare painting adorned the walls.
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By 1986 he lived a virtu- al fantasy.
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There were gorgeous carpets and hangings, frescoed ceilings, spurious objects of virtu, and pier-tables loaded with ornaments.
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There were many articles of virtu lying around-ontables or in cabinets-andthe caller's appearance was against him.
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The card was called le Flambeau de la vertu, the Torch of Righteousness.
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Galbe, gonfle, goulu: parfum, peau, pervers, potele, pudeur: vertu, volupte.
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Prosper Mérimée said: "C'est par là qu'on monte à la vertu."
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I bought lands at ten times their value; purchased pictures and articles of vertu at ruinous prices.
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Of which vertu engendered is the flour-
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His connoisseurship was not one of mere learning; it was intuitional.
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Boyce knew, of course, that this was about far more than painting and connoisseurship.
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So I came to it, looking not just for connoisseurship.
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Walpole, however, collected things in a mood of fantasy as much as of connoisseurship.
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French painting really began in connoisseurship, one may say.
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But Art is not religion, nor is connoisseurship priesthood.
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Trips to look at antiques, in reality, were training sessions in table manners and wine connoisseurship.
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He had been perfectly sure of his connoisseurship.
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Thus it is with connoisseurship in Violins.
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The drawing-room, with its moulded ceiling and huge recessed window, had presented an admirable field for connoisseurship.
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As we know, the global market comprises a marginally small segment of art buyers who are equipped with connoisseurship.
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His connoisseurship would be nothing if he did not question the competence of another, if not of all others.
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It's like there's a whole connoisseurship to it now, which is so awesome and exactly what I was hoping for.
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But there are some people who want more proof than connoisseurship can give, and that's where the trouble is going to be.
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It is a most fascinating kind of connoisseurship, grows on one like Drink; like Polemics; like Melodrama; like the Millennium; like any Thing.
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Though "seekers after wisdom," the cultivated people of Athens did not spend all their valuable leisure in dialectics or in connoisseurship.