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summa
noun 2name 1
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3VERB + SUMMA
map, painting
SUMMA + NOUN
art
ADV.
once
Definitions
noun
1
A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.
2
A culmination or archetypal example.
In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer.
The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence.
name
1
A surname from Italian.
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In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer.
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The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence.
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Rockefeller Center is at once a summa of the Art Deco style, and a look ahead to the Internationalist style that dominated after World War II.
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