Meaning of ritratto | Babel Free

Definitions

A picture; a portrait.

obsolete

Examples

“Here are the Ritrattoes of the Family; amongst others some by Titian, Giorgion, &c […]”

“A little beyond this Vestibule […] is what they call the Painter's Chamber, fill'd from Top to Bottom, with the Ritrattos of all the most famous Men in that Art […]”

“——'tis more like a ritratto of the shadow of vanity, than of VANITY herself——of the two; resembling rather a faint thought of transient applause, secretly stirring up in the heart of the composer, than a gross mark of it, coarsely obtruded upon the world.”

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