Meaning of paintingness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being painterly.
   uncountable
2. The property of being a painting.
   uncountable

Examples

“One cannot enough praise the expression and paintingness of the style, that realization to the mind of the thing described, that lyric plasticity of manner and sympathetic metamorphosis of diction, […]”

“Vermeer is also a great lover of the picture within a picture, a motif that insists that the viewer confront the paintingness of painting.”

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