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Josiah McElheny revives the Renaissance with his glass work that imitates past Venetian glass-blowing styles. "The Story of Glass" will be at the Gardner Museum until April 25. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway. 566-1401. Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $10 ($11 on weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUESDAY MAR 9 | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...Titians ever gave posterity that kind of trouble, but another Venetian painter always has--Giorgione, creator of the lyrical and utterly mysterious The Tempest. Dosso's work appealed to tastes fostered by Giorgione. And Giorgione certainly influenced Dosso, particularly in his treatment of landscape. From him Dosso learned how to unify his figures and the details of landscape around them--lush, wild, tinged with ominousness--in a comprehensive atmosphere instead of going from one sharp detail to another; and the weather effects of Dosso's paintings--storms, lightning bolts, sunsets, blue distances--are Giorgionesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Puzzles of A Courtier | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...wife and I must be caring parents, because we've been sent "the catalog for parents who care." It is called Perfectly Safe and is devoted to creating "the perfectly safe home." It offers, for example, a venetian-blind-cord shortener (so your child won't inadvertently hang himself) and a plastic "safety film" to put over windows and glass doors ("For use during hurricanes too!"). The catalog also gives you the opportunity to "Lock out 'toilet tragedies' with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Safe, Not Sound | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...award for "Best Performance in the Role of a Lovely but Airheaded Infanta." Walla is not only an entrancing and sweet-throated singer (when she is--you guessed it--being loud enough), but also a superb actress who manages to portray the beautiful ingenue (wrapped up in faux Venetian lace get-ups) with just the right amount of whiny, aristocratic empty-headedness...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pump Up the G. and S. Volume | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...designer Peter Miller '84 wins the "Best Set This Campus Has Seen In A While" award with his meticulously detailed but never overpowering scenery. Miller showcases his Broadway-perfected skills with a fairly accurate replica of parts of the Doge's Palace in Venice and a romantic Venetian thoroughfare back-drop, complete with moving gondolas and steamships--a charming if slightly chintzy effect...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pump Up the G. and S. Volume | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

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