Word: ca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion-picture format has detracted from certain aspects of the play, it has added to others. The backgrounds--particularly the cathedral and market-place of Siena and the Ca' D'Oro in Venico--are triumphantly beautiful, and the costuming is luxuriant. Although many of the interior tableaux are more reminiscent of the Flemish painters, the actors have been decked out after a rogue's gallery of Italian Renaissance portraits...
...famous balcony scene was shot in a dreamlike little garden of the sumptuous Ca' d'Oro in Venice; the ballroom scene, all cressets gleaming on dark wood and in bright eyes, was done in an apartment of that palace. On the Venetian cloister of San Francesco del Deserto, where some of the monastery sequences were made, the light falls slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door...
Roger W. Shattuck, instructor in French F and Ca, admitted that he was not too pleased with the early exams, but that there must be some reasons, for the change. Defending the plan, Sargent Kennedy brought up the fact that Harvard is one of the few universities which does not have regular 8 a.m. classes...
...Grand Canal to be designed by Frank Lloyd Wright will deface the architectural heritage in Venice [TIME, March 22], he surrenders to the principle which makes a city a museum piece and drains vitality from it ... Was the Palazzo Vendramini forbidden because, in style, it did not resemble the Ca d'Oro? Was the Church of Santa Maria della Salute forbidden because it did not resemble San Marco...
...design a building as a memorial to Masieri's son Angelo, killed in an automobile accident in the U.S. The new palazzo was to be used as a study center and quarters for architectural students. A site was chosen on the Grand Canal between the magnificent 15th century Ca' Foscari, once a residence of the doges, and the 16th century Palazzo Balbi. The house which Wright's palazzo would replace is a dingy brownstone residence...