Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave to the French language a colloquialism, "violon d'Ingres", meaning a second skill beyond the one by which a person is mainly known. (from wikipedia)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
dilettant
A dilletant: A person who enjoys the arts or someone who engages in a field as an amateur out of casual interest rather than as a profession.
"Violon D'Ingres" by Man Ray
Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave to the French language a colloquialism, "violon d'Ingres", meaning a second skill beyond the one by which a person is mainly known. (from wikipedia)
Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave to the French language a colloquialism, "violon d'Ingres", meaning a second skill beyond the one by which a person is mainly known. (from wikipedia)
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