Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painting by Giovanni's older brother Gentile Bellini) in the midst of a landscape he sketched on the way to Bamberg. Around 1501 he engraved Nemesis?the goddess of fortune, bulbous as a German wardrobe, riding her sphere above the earth. Though it looks nothing like the studies in ideal proportion by Italian artists he had seen in Venice, her body in fact incorporates an intricate proportional scheme, while the landscape that spreads below is a microscopically accurate rendering of the village of Chiuso, in South Tyrol, through which Dürer had passed on his way across the Alps...
...Vidili sphere has been set up in the midst of a bustling Paris boutique called Plastishop, and serves as its office. Manager Myriam Elig finds it ideal...
...room to spread her work papers around. A great advantage: at night it is unnecessary to lock papers into filing cabinets for safety. Instead, she simply locks the sphere. Several large furniture firms that have installed spheres in their retail outlets find them ideal for credit offices; they enable a client who is arranging for a credit purchase to reveal his salary, alimony and allotments to his mistress out of earshot of other customers...
...Folk High Schools there in the 19th century effectively blocked Germanization by Bismarck's Prussia. They did so by emphasizing Danish folk culture and a love of working with the soil while maintaining a spirited intellectual atmosphere. Bardin appropriated the concept, reinforced it with the kibbutz ideal of cooperative living, and added the recreational aspects of the American summer camp...
...another era, her stories would have been filmed as animated cartoons. That would have been an error. The pale palette, the twinkling brevity could never have been duplicated, even by Disney. Fortunately a British gentleman of Potterian sympathy has found an ideal method of adaptation-the dance. Using members of the Royal Ballet, Choreographer Frederick Ashton has literally given Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter a new dimension. Jeremy Fisher the Frog, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr. Fox and Co. spring and caper like Steiff toys given the spark of life. Around them spreads England's green...