Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guardi and the Venetian Landscape Painters," Mr. McCombe, Fogg Small Lecture Room...
...Primo Camera, monster Venetian pugilist: an uproarious Manhattan fight against Victorio Campolo, taller, slimmer monster of the Argentine: by a knockout, in the second round...
...parapet: Ioannes Bellinvs. Crowe and Cavalcaselle think that Basaiti helped Bellini in the Layard Collection picture. Mr. Perkins believes that these pictures were executed by Rondinelli. He states (1905) that a third version is in the collection of the Marquis Visconti Venosta at Rome. Mr. Berenson, in his Venetian Painting in America discusses the Fogg Museum and the Layard collection Madonnas at length, and agrees with Mr. Perkins that Rondinelli is the probable author of the Layard Madonna, at least. He thinks that both pictures are copies of an original Bellini, apparently painted towards 1490, which has disappeared. Mr. Berenson...
...Johore Bahru, capital of Johore, last week Sultana Helen appeared at her coronation in a Paris gown of shell-pink Venetian lace. Like Queen Mary's on state occasions, her bosom blazed with enormous diamonds. Her neck could not be seen beneath its ropes of pearls, and the diamond earrings of Dr. Wilson's former wife reached almost to her shoulders...
...Jacopo Robusti (1518-94) was known as Tintoretto because his father was a Venetian dyer. An admirer, never a friend, of the great Titian, he painted innumerable murky powerful portraits of the Doges and Senators of Venice, great intricate murals. In an age when all artists were commercial artists he was one of the first to adopt an advertising slogan. Outside his studio was an inscription...