different between artwork vs pasticcio

English

Etymology

From art +? -work

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t?w??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t?w?k/

Noun

artwork (countable and uncountable, plural artworks)

1. A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art
2. (uncountable) Artistic work.
3. (uncountable, reprographics) The graphical elements to be included in a reproduced work.

   The text has been reviewed, but the photographer hasn't delivered some of the artwork.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasticcio. Doublet of pastiche.

Noun

pasticcio (plural pasticcios)

1. A medley; an olio.
   • 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776

     On our first entrance into the palace, which is a pasticcio of Saracenic, Conventual, and Grecian architecture, I was much taken with the principal front of the inner-court; a piece of as good Morisco work as any I had yet seen.

2. (art) An artwork that directly imitates the work of another artist or artists.
3. (art) A falsified work of art, such as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.

Related terms

• pastichio

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pasticium (compare French pastis), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pastá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas?tit.t??o/
• Hyphenation: pa?stìc?cio

Noun

pasticcio m (plural pasticci)

1. (cooking) pie, pasty
2. (figuratively, often in the plural) mess, confusion

3. (architecture) relief
4. pastiche
5. jam

Derived terms

• pasticcino
• pasticciotto

Verb

pasticcio

1. first-person singular present indicative of pasticciare

Further reading

• pasticcio on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• piccatosi, piccosità, posticcia, psicotica, spicciato