Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came Princess Jane's chance to stage a comeback. Down to Venice flew two old friends, the most eligible bachelors in Europe. Edward of Wales and Prince George on their way to review the British Mediterranean fleet at Corfu. Because of Depression her Venetian palace is closed, but Princess Jane gave a large dinner for the Princes at the Grand Hotel. The Prince of Wales did not bother to dress. He wore gray flannels, brown suede shoes. After dinner Princess Jane ferried her guests out to the ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace at the Lido...
...Antonello da Messina and the Influence of Flemish Painting on the Venetian Renaissance," Professor Post, Fogg Large Room...
...Venetian Painting," Professor Post, Fogg Large Room...
...scene was the Chamber of Audience of the Vatican. His Holiness, Pope Julius II was listening, not too graciously, to the explanations of the Venetian Ambassador. For the Republic had challenged once again the temporal sovereignty of the 'Vatican, and the explanations of its ambassador were exercises in the arrogant rhetoric of the Renaissance. To a pope who reckoned his reign by the cities he had conquered, every pharse was a gauntlet thrown down: "If Venice does not bow to my wishes," he exclaimed, "I will grind it lower than a fishing village." The reply was a challenge to battle...
...type was fashioned and set up on the printing board, to spell out the fable of Hero and Leander, salvaged by the keepers of the shop from the attic of a monastery. And there is no one today who can measure the sense of high adventure with which the Venetian scholars and printers saw the heavy paper take the delicate print of the metal, the Greek myth rescued and restored by the ingenuity of the early Renaissance...