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-{{Template}}'''Capriccio''' could refer to:+[[Image:The Sleep of Reason.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' is a print by [[Francisco Goya]] from the ''[[Caprichos]]'' series]]
 +[[Image:Capriccio with the Colosseum (1743-44) - B. Bellotto.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Capriccio]] with the [[Colosseum]]'' ([[1743]]-[[1743|44]]) - [[Bernardo Bellotto]]]]
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 +A '''caprice''' is an [[impulsive]], seemingly [[unmotivated]] [[notion]] or [[action]] or an [[unpredictable]] or [[sudden]] [[condition]], [[change]], or series of changes.
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 +'''Capriccio''' could refer to:
 +==Music==
* A free-form, lively piece of music: see [[Capriccio (music)]]. * A free-form, lively piece of music: see [[Capriccio (music)]].
* An opera by Richard Strauss: see [[Capriccio (opera)]]. * An opera by Richard Strauss: see [[Capriccio (opera)]].
* Igor Stravinsky's [[Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra]]. * Igor Stravinsky's [[Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra]].
-* A type of [[Landscape art|landscape painting]] that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting.+==Visual arts==
 +* A type of [[Landscape art|landscape painting]] that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting, see [[Capriccio (art)]].
* An [[art term]] denoting the [[grotesque]], [[playful]], [[fantastic]], [[transgressing]] the [[academic art|academic norms]]. * An [[art term]] denoting the [[grotesque]], [[playful]], [[fantastic]], [[transgressing]] the [[academic art|academic norms]].
 +* [[Capriccio (art)]] or caprice, in painting, an architectural fantasy
 +===Examples===
 +*''[[Capricci di varie figure]]'' (1617) - [[Jacques Callot]]
 +*[[Piranesi]] produced two groups of [[capricci]] etchings, the [[Grotteschi (Piranesi) |Grotteschi]] (c. 1748) and the [[Imaginary Prisons|Carceri]] (1745).
 +* ''[[Caprichos]]'' (1790s, ''The Caprices''), a series of prints by Goya
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 +==Etymology==
 +Borrowing from French ''caprice'', from Italian ''capriccio'', from ''caporiccio'' (“fright, sudden start”): ''capo'' (“head”), from Latin ''caput + riccio'' (“curly”), from Latin ''ericius'' (“hedgehog”), or from Italian ''capro'' (“goat”)
 +==See also==
 +*[[Fancy]]
 +*[[Fantasy]]
 +*[[Folie]]
 +*[[Whim]]
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A caprice is an impulsive, seemingly unmotivated notion or action or an unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.

Capriccio could refer to:

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Etymology

Borrowing from French caprice, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (“fright, sudden start”): capo (“head”), from Latin caput + riccio (“curly”), from Latin ericius (“hedgehog”), or from Italian capro (“goat”)

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