Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program also included Puccini's Gloria Mass, a work written in the composer's student days. The music was decidedly uneven, containing fine lyrical passages such as a strong theme for unison chcorus at the words "et unam sanctam." Much of the music, however, sounded like an Italian version of second-rate Schubert. It was the piece's first and probably last Boston performance...
...home a parasite." The world of Nuremberg to which he returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Germany was barely touched by the Renaissance sun that burned in the south. In contrast to the freedom of the Italian artists, the Germans were still rigidly bound by the guild system. More important, they continued to develop the Northern, Medieval traditions, sloof to the revolution that had taken place across the Alps...
...North unlike Italy, as Panofsky has pointed out, had no classical roots to return to, and at the same time its medieval experience has been more thorough, so that it was able to absorb the classical past more easily through the intermediary of Italian Quatrocento art than by reference to classical forms themselves. The result was a new style rather than merely a duplicate of the old; and a style that continued to develop Northern characteristics. Examples of this are the Coat of Arms of the German Empire and City of Nuremberg, done by Durer in 1521. Following the classical...
...began building a new home in the wastelands of the Fenway. She had designed a Venetian palace which would house all her works of art in their proper setting. During construction, Mrs. Jack closely supervised every move of the workmen. The walls of the great courtyard look like Italian pink marble because she herself climbed on the scaffolding to show the workmen just how to achieve that effect with pink and white paint. Her personality pervaded every part of the museum, said Carter, her long-time friend and Museum director since her death...
...rooms off the courtyard, Rembrandts, Titians, Botticellis and Raphaels covered the walls. The rooms were filled with early Italian armchairs, tapestries, Venetian glassware, early Roman statues, and hundreds of other things she had collected over the years. "It seemed as if the Venetian Renaissance had been reincarnated in twentieth-century Boston," Carter says...