Italianizing
Adding Italian flair
Italianizing means giving something an Italian character or style.
This can apply to food, music, architecture, or cultural practices—adapting them to resemble Italian traditions: The chef kept Italianizing the menu until half the dishes featured olive oil and fresh basil.
It can also mean making a word or name sound Italian: He was Italianizing his surname for the opera stage.
European cultural reawakening
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- neoclassicismMovement emulating antiquity's forms
quattrocento · capriccio · mannerism · trompe-l'oeil · gilding · putti · Madonna · altarpiece
Renaissance
European cultural reawakening
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
neoclassicism · quattrocento · capriccio · mannerism · trompe-l'oeil · gilding · putti · Madonna · altarpiece · tempera
villa
Stately country residence
colonnade · arcade · balustrade · terracotta · stucco · cupola · dome · cornice · pediment · pilaster
pasta
Shaped wheat dough
antipasto · bruschetta · prosciutto · gnocchi · pesto · tiramisu · marinara · carbonara · cannoli · caprese
ItalianizingGermanizing
Making culturally German
Americanizing · Africanizing · localizing · globalizing · indigenizing
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