Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painting represents a man, a virile Venetian with a full beard, carrying a falcon in his hand, and the suggestion has been made that it is a portrait of Giorgio Cornaro. The picture has all the breadth and freedom of treatment that is associated with Titian's name. Mr. Richter, in his book, says he thinks it was probably painted about...
...Metropolitan Museum (Manhattan) acquired and placed on exhibition a ceiling that is regarded as a major work of Tiepolo, one of the leaders of the later Venetian school. The ceiling was painted in the latter half of the 18th Century for the Barbaro family, and glorifies Francesco Barbaro, founder of the family and defender of Brescia from the Duke of Milan. This work was done during Tiepolo's mature period after he had completed his famous decorations in the palace of the Archbishop of Wurtzburg...
...translation by Grace Lovat Fraser is spiritedly done. To preserve in a measure the flavor of the original, the translator has rendered into an English provincial dialect the parts of three or four of the characters written by Goldoni in the Venetian speech...
Lelio, the liar, son of the old Venetian merchant Pantalone, seeking adventure, encounters Beatrice and Rosaura. Addressing his attentions to the latter, he passes himself off as a wealthy Neapolitan noble and declares himself responsible for serenade, gift and poem. Meeting Ottavio, he boasts not only of serenading the girls, but of having dined with them in their house. Shocked at Beatrice's levity, Ottavio informs her father that he can no longer entertain thoughts of marriage...
...broad balcony looking down upon the stage. Across the way is the entrance to an inn, the "Aquila D'Ors". Between the two buildings are steps and an embankment, which suggest the presence of a canal, and above which may be seen a deep expanse of sunny Venetian...