Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have seemed like the humble bootleg of a cobbler. Not the most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered about a table. On it a skillful craftsman was laboriously fashioning little blocks of metal into the forms of graceful letters, using a manuscript of Petrarch's for his model. What conversation he heard would be unintelligible to him, for these men spoke of business not in volatile...
...order of the day in architecture. To these has been added a structure for common rooms and library, whose Georgian exterior leaves the unsuspecting visitor unprepared for the array of carved and brightly painted Moorish ceilings, Bristol-board flagstones, marble columns painted on cerulean blue walls, and wrought-iron Venetian lamps, which decorate its lavishly gilded Italian interior. Russell Hall, happily but belatedly removed, has given way to a successor which calls to mind the stern lines of a frontier block-house. At least there is architectural variety...
...breakfast, luncheon, dinner, sandwiches, waffles, tea, coffee, cocoa, Italian, Spanish or English pottery and tea sets, 29 flavors of preserves and jellies, nine kinds of pickles and relishes. You can look at lamps, shades, bric-a-brac, pottery, leather goods, Venetian woodenware, Holland glass, table linen. Tooth-picking is discouraged...
...Inquisitor Samuel Seabury (see p. 13) threatens the policemen with an investigation, they decide to conceal their opulence by financing a revue, The Rhinestones of 1932. High spot of this durbar, which must have cost Producer Sam H. Harris himself a good deal of money, is a lavish rhinestone Venetian scene, complete with half-a-dozen flights of rhinestone pigeons...
...Italian criticism of the Renaissance" is to be the subject of three public lectures to be given by Professor Lionello Venturi, of the University of Turin. Professor Venturi, son of the great historian of Italian art, is the author of several books on Venetian painting and on criticism. In America the visiting lecturer is known for his book on Italian Paintings in America. Lectures at Fogg will be given on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons of next week at 4.30 o'clock. The public is invited...