Word: ferrara
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bold, brusque colorism. His vision was acute and reportorial. He sought out such scenes as a cavalryman dragged across a field by his horse or oxen idly sniffing an oddly crumpled hat, the only sign of life in a devastated battleground. Another leader was Giovanni Boldini from Ferrara, who traveled through Spain with Degas and later settled in Paris to paint exquisitely mannered portraits. A third was Vincenzo Cabianca from Verona, who loaded his canvas with oil until its scumbled surface resembled earthen ware, yet caught the rich visual effect of sun-drenched landscape...
...first theatre with a proscenium arch was designed in 1600 by Giovanni Battista Aleotti in Ferrara. But you will have to go to Houghton to see a handsome etching of this theatre with its five tiers of seats filled with enthusiastic playgoers...
...Donna é Mobile. In Ferrara, Italy, Romolo Bocchi turned in a petition naming him a candidate for the Senate in Italy's May elections, learned that it was not valid because 60 women signers had falsified their ages...
...Ferrara. One of the most impressive feats of art sleuthing by X ray is reported by John Walker, director of Washington's , National Gallery, in his book, Bellini and Titian at Ferrara (Phaidon; $6.50). Sleuth Walker tackled one of the world's great masterpieces, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods (see color page), now at the National Gallery, managed to prove through X rays what no scholar could hope to do with the naked...
Duke Alfonso I d'Este of Ferrara and his wife, Lucrezia Borgia. Bellini had called on the young talent of Titian to help finish the great canvas. After Bellini's death in 1516, Titian-who became the new Venetian master-won the commission to paint three other large, allegorical paintings for the duke's Renaissance study. As an added service, Titian repainted sections of the Feast to make it accord with the more luxury-loving tastes of his time-and, incidentally, to accord more with his own oils...