Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many suitors, she was betrothed to the Infant Christ by the Virgin Mary. It should be a supremely happy occasion, but as Romanino portrays it, the scene is singularly lacking in heavenly joy. The skies are threatening, the nuns troubled, the Virgin sad, the Infant petulant. Miraculously wedding deep Venetian hues, Lombardian realism and Gothic expressionism, the painting seems a superb summation of that place and that moment when the brusque Angst-filled winds from the north began to cool the warmth of Italy's golden age. The high Renaissance was poised before a modern world. Romanino knew...
...first place. The man is a loser whose reputation rests on a novel he stole from his dead brother. By the time the woman finishes with him, his exquisite wife (Virna Lisi) has committed suicide and the writer is reduced to loud talk and low estate as a Venetian tourist guide...
...show came on Thursday, outside the state capitol. There, blue-hel-meted state troopers and green-helmet-ed Alabama conservation and liquor-enforcement officers were strung out in glum lines, blocking entry to the building. Inside, Governor George Wallace peeked warily through Venetian blinds, occasionally stared through binoculars, and muttered, "That's quite a crowd...
...world art power. "Abstract expression began in my gallery," she says. "You couldn't explain it. It was like a sudden burst of flame." Peggy fed the fire as long as she could resist returning to Europe. In 1949 she established herself in her 18th century Venetian palazzo, began collecting Lhasa terriers for lap dogs and adding young artists to her fold, while gondoliers awarded her the title of "the last Duchess" for her ribald, regal ways...
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo wanted people to look up to his art. He painted his most famous work on ceilings. Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs. His specialty, naturally, was clouds, and his best work adorns sundry ceilings from Madrid's royal palace to Wurzburg's bishop's Residenz. Last week Tiepolo unexpectedly raised the roofs in London...