Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibition of Venetian Paintings and Drawings, Fench Paintings, and Coptic Art will open at the Fogg on Thursday...
...year's of Fogg Museum drawing acquisitions (1940-1950) went on exbition at the Museum yesterday. Other December exhibitions at Fogg include Venetian paintings of the 18th century and French paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries...
With a resounding pop, Italy blew off the lid that Mussolini had clamped on modern sculpture more than a score of years ago. At Varese, in the first all-Italian sculpture competitions in many a year, top honors went to a thin-faced, little-known Venetian named Alberto Viani for one of his highly abstract nudes...
Trying to assay him from his past was like trying to peep through a Venetian blind. John Maragon had come to Washington by a circuitous route. He was an immigrant boy from the Greek island of Levkas, had begun life in the U.S. as a brush-flipper and rag-flapper in a Kansas City shoeshine parlor operated by one George Giokaris. He left Kansas City in 1916. In the early 19205 he got a job with the FBI-then a serio-comic collection of political apple polishers commanded by that hoary old Private Eye, William J. Burns...
...exhibition tells the story of a man who almost singlehanded broke the tradition of his time & place, taught Venetian art to loosen its stiff Byzantine and Gothic joints. In his Pietà with St. John, which shows Mary supporting the body of Jesus while the dazed John stares into the distance, Bellini brought the tightlipped, hot-house Byzantine virgins of earlier Venetian painting out into the clear sunlight of the Italian countryside...