Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun vertu

2 senses of vertu

Sense 1
virtu, vertu, connoisseurship -- (love of or taste for fine objects of art)
       => taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness -- (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste")

Sense 2
virtu, vertu -- (artistic quality)
       => quality -- (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare)