📚 noun • entry_id 51554
conversation piece
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pieza conversacional
A painting of a group of people engaged in conversation or some other activity, popular in 18th century.
Hogarth's enlargement of painting's scope was based on the conversation piece, which was to prove one of the most flexible and adaptable of genres. The idea of an informal group wa…
The painting is a conversation piece without conversation and rightly regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale.
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