THE FINE ARTS

  

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THE FINE ARTS

Definition: THE FINE ARTS

THE FINE ARTS

1. Are those which have primarily to do with imagination and taste, and are applied to the production of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music, painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: THE FINE ARTS

English words defined with "THE FINE ARTS": architecturecognoscenti, connoisseur, conservatoryDry pointEncaustic painting, Engine turningFire gilding, Fire giltGraphic artshieraticLine of beautyNew Salonpainterly, Pug millRoyal National Eisteddfodstill lifetexture, To keep down, Tout-ensemblework of art. (references)
Specialty definitions using "THE FINE ARTS": Walk through One's Part. (references)
Etymologies containing "THE FINE ARTS": Muscling. (references)

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Commercial Usage: THE FINE ARTS

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Books

  • Nicola Pisano's Arca Di San Domenico and Its Legacy (Monographs on the Fine Arts, V. 50) (reference)

  • The Reincarnating Mind, or the Ontopoietic Outburst in Creative Virtualities, Book II: Harmonisations and Attunement in Cognition, the Fine Arts, lit (reference)

  • Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary (Monographs on the Fine Arts, 56) (reference)

  • Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes: Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript (Monographs on the Fine Arts, Vol 53) (reference)

  • The Via Latina Catacomb: Imitation and Discontinuity in Fourth-Century Roman Painting (Monographs on the Fine Arts, No 38) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: THE FINE ARTS

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Pennsylvania] Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphi.Credit: Library of Congress.

President Coolidge walking with members of the Fine Arts Commission.Credit: Library of Congress.

The Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Open February till May / / Herbert Mcnair ; Marg't Macdonald ; Frances Macdonald.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: THE FINE ARTS

AuthorQuotation

Joubert

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: THE FINE ARTS

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It should be the patron of the fine arts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: THE FINE ARTS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pennsylvania academy of the fine arts

33
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: THE FINE ARTS

Language Translations for "THE FINE ARTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

美" (art). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kuvaamataiteet, kaunotaiteet. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

修" (learning, studying the fine arts). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅうどう (learning, studying the fine arts). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ny h-ellynyn ooasle. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ethay inefay artsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: THE FINE ARTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-h-i-n-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: earthiest, fatteners, festinate, feteritas, heartiest, herniates, hesitater, reinstate, thirteens, threatens.

-3 letters: anisette, arenites, ariettes, arsenite, earthset, entreats, fainters, faintest, farthest, fastener, fattener, feathers, fenestra, ferniest, feterita, frisette, hairnets, hastener, heartens, hearties, heftiest, herniate, hesitant, hesitate, inearths, infester, insetter, interest, intreats, iterates, nitrates, ratteens, refasten, resinate, stearine, sternite, straiten, teariest, tertians, tetanies, tetanise.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-h-i-n-r-s-t-t"
 

+5 letters: faintheartedness, featherstitching.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: THE FINE ARTS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 48 45      46 49 4E 45      41 52 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01000001 01010010 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#70 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0045      0046 0049 004E 0045      0041 0052 0054 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544239240434839235525453

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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