Word: doges
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...with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent witness to the natural expectations of a Doria-Pamphili heir: carved on the base are a bishop's staff, a doge's hat and a Pope's three-tiered crown...
...rigging out a servant in a pudding-basin and mantilla.) Diana's sister-in-law took some pigs up in an airplane to prove that they could fly. Once in Venice the rich young pixies were visited by an old family friend, dressed him up as a doge and danced around him to celebrate his birthday. He was Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister of England. This seeing-eye doge was soon to help lead a blind generation into...
...Previous Heil finds: a Verrocchio marble statue on a Manhattan art dealer's window sill (TIME, March 14, 1949) and a Gentile Bellini Doge in the drawer of a Florentine art shop (TIME, April...
This year, after almost four centuries of neglect, Jacopo Bassano is getting recognition at last. Under the high patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, a summer-long exhibition is being given in Venice, and most of the ornate third floor of the Doge's Palace on the Piazza di San Marco is taken over by 86 religious, Biblical and scenic paintings, 13 portraits and 30 drawings by the man from Bassano...
...odds-on favorite to win his eleventh race in a row, Paul Andolino's disheveled little sprinter, Boston Doge, just could not get going on Belmont's damp track, finished a bad third behind Nance's Lad and Informant in the Swift Stakes...