Word: lotto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artists may be grouped into the six Italian schools: Duccio di Buoninsegna of the Siena; Lippo Memmi and Brenna of Simone de Martino influence; Giotto, Ghirlandajo, Botticelli, del Sarto of the Florentine; Luini of the Milanese; Romano and Signorelli of the Ferrarese; Carlo Crivelli, Antonello, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Palma, Lotto, del Piombo, Bonifazio and Paolo Veronese of the Venetian. The Venetians enjoy the greatest representation...
...include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...draughtsmanship and " balance " of composition. Touching the non-graphic arts only in the sculpture of Donatello and Michelangelo and the reliefs of Ghiberti, the book scarcely fulfills its inclusive title. Orpen strives to be religiously impersonal in his praise, but his painter's predilections for Botticelli, Giorgione, Moroni, Lotto, Holbein, Hals, Velasquez, Vermeer, Chardin, Hogarth, Raeburn, Richard Wilson, shine through. Conspicuously omitted from mention is Andrea del Sarto...