capriccio

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sudden and unexpected or fantastic motion; a caper; a gambol; a prank, a trick.

   “She used to smile at my capriccios; and once she kissed me—actually.”

2. isim A fantastical thing or work.

   “Will this Capricio hold in thee, art ſure?”

3. isim A type of Renaissance landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual and often fictional setting.

   “Above the drawing-room fireplace there was a painting by Guardi, a capriccio of Venice in a gilt rococo frame […]”

4. isim A piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.

   “The friar and Matilda had often sung duets together, and had been accustomed to the baron’s chiming in with a stormy capriccio, which was usually charmed into silence by some sudden turn in the witching melodies of Matilda.”