Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Going, going, gone!" echoed a thousand times through the vast marble interiors of Venice's 17th century Palazzo Labia last week. Going, going, gone was another vestige of Venetian elegance, knocked down by the gondola-load to smaller-than-life nobodies representing Swiss antique dealers, dubious shops on Madison Avenue, secretive European and American collectors, and doubtless some ambassadors from small countries, intent on robbing Italy's art treasures via the diplomatic pouch...
...Venetian Affair, Maclnnes...
FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART-62 East 78th. Fifty Venetian paintings from the 17th century range from Palma II Giovane to Sebastiano Ricci. Through April...
FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week) 2. The Group, McCarthy (2) 3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3) 4. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6) 5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (4) 6. The Martyred, Kim (5) 7. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (8) 8. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (7) 9. The Fanatic, Levin 10. The Night of the Generals, Kirst...
Punched Shaft. The building, designed by Edward Durell Stone, is a shaft of polished Vermont marble punched by 1,472 portholes, its Venetian façade bent to the arc of Columbus Circle. Inside, is a giant staircase that spirals around the intrusive service core and fire stairs required by city ordinances, and makes landings at the galleries...