Word: venetian
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...buildings he is assigned to preserve and develop, Gliedman has found an ingenious solution. He pastes vinyl decals over the broken windows of the city's abandoned slum tenements to convey an illusion of cheery life inside. Some of the decals look like curtains, some like Venetian blinds; some even contain illusory flowerpots, where illusory geraniums blossom in an illusory sunshine...
...robbers seemed to know their art: included were two works by the 16th century Venetian master Tintoretto, and Portrait of a Young Man, attributed to Raphael. By far the most important of the works, however, was Raphael's 1508 Mary with the Christ Child and Young John the Baptist, known as the Esterházy Madonna after the Hungarian noble family that sold it to the state in 1872. A jewel of the collection, the Madonna gives rare insights into Raphael's compositional skills. Raphael Scholar James Beck of Columbia University estimates that it alone is worth between...
...year after the ghastly massacre of hundreds of Palestinians, heavily armed men still prowl the shanty town of Shatila on the southern fringes of Beirut. But instead of the feared fatigue uniforms of Phalangist militiamen, they wear spiffy red-and-gold scarves emblazoned with the Venetian Lion of St. Mark, and their presence inspires comfort rather than terror. They are Italian marines who keep strict watch from a ring of sentry posts and constantly patrol streets that are now as safe as any in Lebanon...
...Pericles' day could have imagined that the Parthenon would explode in 1687, destroying 14 of its exterior columns, when Turkish gunpowder stored inside it was hit by true-eyed artillery men of the Venetian Republic, firing near by from the Hill of the Muses? Or that in the 19th century, the seventh Earl of Elgin would carry down from the hill pediment statues and one maidenly caryatid, all doomed to sail in ships made of wood to a foreign place not loved by thundering Zeus, the British Museum...
...Rome's Colosseum as having "a remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with both praise and blame, lauding Greek tavernas and Dutch honesty and censuring rip-off artists like Venetian gondoliers, whom he called "surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians...