Word: venetian
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Janissaries of Sultan Selim II wrested control of the island from Venetian merchant princes in 1571, and quickly demonstrated to the Cypriots the basic style of Ottoman administration. The defender of the Cypriot city of Famagusta, one Marcantonio Bragadino, had held off the Turkish troops for nearly a year, and when Famagusta finally fell, the Turks slowly and publicly flayed him alive. Bragadino's straw-stuffed skin was paraded through the city, and the lesson was not lost on the Cypriots...
...Venetian Affair, Maclnnes...
Born. To Anthony Quinn, 49, swarthy cinemactor last seen as the swaggering Arab chieftain in Lawrence of Arabia, and Jolanda Addolori, 29, blonde, blue-blooded Venetian fashion designer: their second child, second son; in Rome. Quinn remains officially married to the former Katherine de Mille (adopted daughter of the late Cecil B.), mother of his first four children...
...some of Beistegui's ex-gondoliers thronged to the auction. Rumor had it that John Paul Getty was there in disguise. A set of four candlesticks went for $25,000; an 18th century Virgin attributed to Nazari went for $900. The total realized by Don Carlos for his Venetian trifle was $1,968,000. As one bargain-seeker put it: "With this auction, another colorful chapter of Venetian history has been closed. It started with a party-and now the party's over...
...Birthday Party, he used the blurry-faced male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother cutting cake for her child. At 42, he painted his expatriate cousins, the Ralph Curtises, in their Venetian palace; the painting opens volumes of casual space that would appall a European painter, such as Degas or Vuillard, used to more rigidly interlocked interiors...