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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