Word: cornaro
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...temple. No solution could have been more pleasing to Palladio's Italian clients, who enjoyed their pomp; none could have responded better to Palladio's formal bent. The network of ratios between height and width, void and solid, expressed in the façades of Villa Cornaro and Villa Malcontenta, subtly prepares the visitor for the less consciously felt proportions of the rooms within. For there was nothing improvised in Palladio. His plans-always axial, with lesser rooms grouped symmetrically around a high hall-obey stringent rules of harmony, not only in the three dimensions of each room...
...Museum on the painting by Titian which is now on exhibit there. The picture, the property of Sir, Joseph Duveen, well-known London art collecter, was painted, it is estimated, about 1538. It represents a full-bearded Venetian with a falcon in one hand, perhaps the portrait of Giorgio Cornaro. It will remain at the Fogg Museum only a few days...
...painting represents a man, a virile Venetian with a full beard, carrying a falcon in his hand, and the suggestion has been made that it is a portrait of Giorgio Cornaro. The picture has all the breadth and freedom of treatment that is associated with Titian's name. Mr. Richter, in his book, says he thinks it was probably painted about...
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