tarantulalike

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1. Resembling or characteristic of a tarantula.

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   Del Sarto’s “Madonna of the Steps,” too fragile to travel from the Prado, appears here in the form of sketched details: images of piled drapery, of nude bodies (studio staff was no doubt recruited to pose), of detached feet and hands (including a tarantulalike set of fingers) and of a sweet child’s head, with another half-visible, like a mirage, behind it.

   2015 October 22, Holland Cotter, “Review: A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection”, in New York Times