How To Use Venice In A Sentence
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At the beginning, Asked For is in Venice with her father, where she meets an ageing Jacob to use the English version of his name Casanova; her father dies, and she begins to travel with the man who fascinates her.
Susan Swan: What Casanova Told Me
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The third room of the Venice show has been turned into a stairway and elevator experience.
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I walked several miles south along the beach past Venice and just spent some time relaxing and breathing in the sea air.
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The 21-year-old student from Venice, Calif., beat out Chase, a 24-year-old pro race car jackman from Fairview, N.C., by one vote.
Survivor: Nicaragua Winner Revealed
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Venice as a city has seemed irrelevant, a storied artifact of a Romantic past that serves merely as a decorous backdrop for an event geared toward utopian futures.
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That weekend in Venice was definitely the highlight of our trip.
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Venice, to the stoniness of which they bring a sense of the country's clovery pasturage, in the milk just drawn from the great cream-colored cows.
Venetian Life
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That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice
Othello, the Moore of Venice
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Venice is a beautiful city full of culture and history.
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So one of the most famous merchants, called The Merchant of Venice, is encouraged to talk hopefully of his happiness when his ships come home; but he knows that ships sometimes do not come home.
G.K.'s Weekly - If Matter Matters
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He brings word from Venice that Antonio has defaulted on his loan to Shylock, and needs Bassanio's help.
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The European equivalent, “Venice treacle,” (Theriaca Andromachi) is an electuary containing many elements.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And one with a vile and overquick temper, as he had proved in Venice.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
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Admittedly, Venice wasn't a very big place, but there was little chance of meeting her again accidentally.
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In Venice, the "pedestrian" is anything but pedestian, even if you are not a pedestrian.
On Being Handicapped In Venice
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Venice is another favourite eating place of mine.
Times, Sunday Times
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From spies in Venice comes a sighting of him swanking around on the Grand Canal.
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Recognising this, he chose to arrive in midwinter when Venice is cold, wet and magnificently, beautifully bleak.
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‘Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go,’ said Truman Capote and suddenly we knew it was time to leave the feminine wiles of this ancient city with its masks and mystery.
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Anyway, this guy, he's supposedly a clockmaker in Venice.
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The Venice Film Festival has always been the showcase of Italian cinema.
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MY DEAR FRIEND: I apply to you now, as to the greatest virtuoso of this, or perhaps any other age; one whose superior judgment and distinguishing eye hindered the King of Poland from buying a bad picture at Venice, and whose decisions in the realms of 'virtu' are final, and without appeal.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
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That weekend in Venice was definitely the highlight of our trip.
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We're having a wonderful time here in Venice.
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The most famous preserved example is the porphyry group of Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius embracing each other, which can now be seen on the southwest corner of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice.
Caesars’ Wives
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Pietro dismissed their vettura, and together they walked down the principal promenade to the shopping center where they mingled with the endless crowds of pedestrians and looked into the windows of the gay little shops that made Andrea think of Venice.
Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon
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The lazaret was opened during the plague outbreaks that decimated Venice, as well as much of Europe, throughout the 15th and 16th centuries A.D.
Low Water Again Plagues Venice: Acqua Bassa Redux
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Similarly, sixteenth-century Italian paintings show little of the various new Turkish types influenced by Ottoman court art that were arriving in Venice by the 1530s.
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The power resided in an oligarchy, a financier oligarchy, which were the leading families of Venice, who were, in their financial aspect, called fondi, or funds.
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Exports from the city of Arcadia included wool, wax, silk, and kermes, destined for Venice via Zakynthos.
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It can be done: they have found a firm of glass-makers in Venice that can produce the big double-curved pieces of glass required.
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Cantico espiritual; IDEM, Llama de amor viva; SCARAMELLI, Direttorio mistico (Venice, 1754); RIBET, La mystique divine (Paris, 1895);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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'Gesta Romanorum' and the _Merchant of Venice_, 67
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
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His music for Indian art films won awards in international film festivals like Venice and Cannes in the 1950s.
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When, in 1409, King Ladislas of Hungary sold Zadar and its surrounding islands to Venice for 100,000 ducats, little did he know he was heralding a great cultural interchange.
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They are admittedly livelier than his uncle's sole contribution, a stately architectural rendering of the Grand Canal in Venice on a rainy day.
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Defeated in Lombardy, the revolution sputtered on in Venice, Tuscany, Rome, and Sicily.
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You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.
Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.
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Visitors to the blog of Ian Bone, the founder of Class War, discuss this: Surely the definition of an 'anarchist' in Belgravia is a leaseholder with less than 70 years left to run on his lease who can't afford to enfranchise; or perhaps a leaseholder who has to actually live in his flat rather than renting it out and living in Venice.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Armeni Mechitaristici (Venice, 1819) NEUMANN, Essai d'une histoire de la Littérature arménienne (Leipzig, 1836); KALEMKIAR, Une esquisse de l'activité littéraire-typographique de la congrégation méchitariste
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Also in Venice he met, and soon after married, the mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni, one of the finest singers of her time.
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Major works of painting, sculpture, mosaic and architecture were examined in situ in Venice.
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Depending on where you roam, your transportation may range from the ultramodern, like the high-speed trains of Japan, to the traditional, like the eccentric jitneys of the Philippines or the gondolas of Venice.
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I've seen both Merchant of Venice and Time Stands Still; the latter could play differently now thanks to new cast member Christina Ricci, the former I imagine will be much the same as it was, minus the magic of the park.
Cara Joy David: On the Verge of a New Fall Season
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Canaletto: Views of the Canal Grande in Venice" shows veduta paintings of Venice by Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto (1697-1768), including two recently restored works.
Time Off Europe Calendar
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It was in Venice, the centre of glass making, that the first pair of spectacles appeared, around 1280.
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Gondoliers in Venetian clothing propel the boats, which were used for centuries as the chief means of transportation within Venice, Italy, through the water with a single oar.
Journey to Amore With a Venetian Gondola Getaway
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Nancy lives in this perfect world where everything's from Shabby Chic and looks really beautiful and I grew up in this kind of grungy Venice world with my parents and there was never a lot of money thrown around.
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: Zoe Kazan's Acting "Explodes" with "A Behanding"
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The list of weed species includes: morninglory, bindweed, buckwheat, Pennsylvania smartweed, Venice mallow, sweet clover, velvetleaf, lamb's quarters, and nightshade.
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Given all these and other dramatic qualifications of Venetian courtesy, playgoers are not surprised when the dynamics of sadism and persecution in The Merchant of Venice challenge its authenticity.
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An anti-Semite's dream, using the definition that a thing is anti-Semitic if it is more Jew hating than is mete, Merchant of Venice is that thing, but what should we do?
Regina Weinreich: Shakespeare in the Park: Not Your Usual Romp on the Great Lawn
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They were married on August 9 in a civil ceremony in Venice.
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The leading early makers of violins, whose potential for rhythmic vitality distinguished them in the Baroque era from the viols preferred in the Renaissance, worked in Verona, Brescia, Venice, and Cremona.
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dwarfish", subsumed to their mode of transport, or scattered about - as are the backpackers outside Venice station in Vertigo - like corpses.
The Guardian World News
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Venice drove my interest in panoramic photography.
Veniceblog:
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Many of those early residents still remain in Venice Beach, contributing to the vibe of free-love and environmental peace that continues to this day.
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A second visit to Venice took place in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, when travel was slow and hazardous.
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Belmont, for him, is a great recusant house where "mercy ... redeems the mercenariness of the Protestant market" in Venice, and Portia, as the epitome of "matriarchal Catholicism," presides in private over the rites and festivals of the Roman Church while providing a safe haven for her coreligionists.
The One and Only
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In Venice she slept in the garden of a gondolier; in Thailand she hung out with a family that showed her the art of fruit carving.
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Presumably, the door with the herms was designed by Sansovino himself, since he was not only the architect for the Procurators of St. Mark, who had to pay for the new Zecca door, but also the leading sculptor in Venice.
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It is not Venice but it has warmth, colour, and views such as could stretch the most infertile imagination.
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The Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Parthenon in Greece, the downtown police station in Venice.
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He was about to chair a meeting in Venice of EU foreign ministers.
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The other standout of the trip was Venice's Gjelina during a child-free dinner with great friends Ole and Tonje.
Ondine Cohane: Foodie Time in Los Angeles
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It was thought the picture, which shows gondoliers and sailors at work in 18th century Venice, was a copy by an imitator or student of the artist and had been valued at no more than £5,000.
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Venice was controlled by a financier oligarchy.
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The closest I've got is Venice Connection which is as much a puzzle as a game.
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Review: Biography: Polo reminted: A study that strips away the myths to let us see the great Venetian traveller afresh delights Kevin Rushby: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen 448pp, Quercus, pounds 19.99
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, by Laurence Bergreen
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'Rodrigo,' produced at Florence in 1707, made him famous, and 'Agrippina' (Venice, 1708) raised him almost to the rank of a god.
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
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You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled The Masters of Venice.
Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco
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It is the same on all the feast-days: then the city sinks into profounder quiet; only bells are noisy, and where their clangor is so common as in Venice, it seems at last to make friends with the general stillness, and disturbs none but people of untranquil minds.
Venetian Life
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In the _Merchant of Venice_, at all events, there is hardly a single character from Portia to old Gobbo, a single incident from the exaction of Shylock's bond to the computation of hairs in Launcelot's beard and Dobbin's tail, which has not been more plentifully beprosed than ever Rosalind was berhymed.
A Study of Shakespeare
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In Renaissance Italy, he became a student of Titian in Venice, liberating himself from the conventions of icon painting and developing a new fluency with brush and color.
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Art collector, polo player and film producer Peter Brant gives me a ride to the 68th Venice Film Festival to mingle with Hollywood glitterati.
Peggy Siegal: To Venice With Love
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In Venice — as in Tuscany — painting came to perfection after the heroic period; and the arts have been truly described as the gilded bark which covered the cankered trunk of a luxuriant tree. '
Explaining Titian's Egg Seller
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David Yoder for The Wall Street Journal The Saudi exhibition 'The Black Arch' presents a work by Shadia and Raja Alem I'm going to stick my neck out and make a judgment on the stand-out artist in this year's Venice Biennale, the world's most exhausting, demanding and prestigious bunfight of contemporary art.
Setting the Art World Alight
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I'd like to have a bash at playing Gustav von Aschenbach in Death In Venice, please.
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"I heard to my surprise the other day from Swan, whose son, it seems, was doing some work at Melcombe this spring (making a greenhouse, I think), that Mrs. Melcombe wintered at Mentone, partly on her boy's account, for he had a feverish or aguish illness at Venice, and she was advised not to bring him to England."
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Harry and the Contessa are called away to Venice, where an old friend has a new lead on an insurance scam.
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One, it's Venice, which doesn't need to be prettied up.
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Kitano had hardly sat foot in Venice, before a invitation only press screening and later the same day the first public screening took place.
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Inside, the public rooms were sumptuously decorated in the florid style of old Venice with arching, beamed ceilings, sconced walls covered with opulent moire silks, and lush color everywhere - the wholly Venetian shades of blue, green, yellow and burnt orange.
The Kaisho
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They were married on August 9 in a civil ceremony in Venice.
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After his journeyman years, which took him as far as Venice, he registered as a master painter in Augsburg in 1534.
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Was it some subtle dig at the disgraceful standards of literacy among the merchant classes of 16th-century Venice?
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Despite having garnered numerous accolades on the festival circuit, including five films in competition for the Palme d'Or, a best-screenplay award and two Grand Prix du Jury at Cannes—as well as the Golden Bear at Berlin and two Special Jury prizes at Venice—Mr. Skolimowski has failed to win the widespread recognition enjoyed by other Eastern European filmmakers such as Miloš Forman, Roman Polanski or Andrej Wajda.
Two Paths, Little Glory For This Polish Director
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She'd appeared in the doorway at Harry's Bar in Venice, barelegged but in heels.
In Venice
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Murder, deceit, and malice await Sara when she comes to visit her great-aunt Contessa Belzoni in Venice of the 1880s.
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Venice was an important center of trade with the East
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The son of a German artisan, he was probably born in Venice, and apprenticed to his adoptive father Giulio.
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If my lucky number comes up, we'll have a holiday in Venice.
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As our river bus weaves in and out among the swarm of vaporetti, traghetti, gondolas and private craft, Venice begins to reveal itself.
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The diocese prays that all those involved in this attempt to 'ordain' ` Roman Catholic Womenpriests will be reconciled with the church, and that the harm and division caused will be healed," the Diocese of Venice, Fla., said in a statement.
Clerical Whispers
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Back when I first heard little whispers of beechwood, a new restaurant in venice from brooke williamson, ex-chef of ex- zax now pecorino, i told myself i was going to try it, but i wasn't going to read any reviews of it before i went and tried it myself. i was tempted to even read the editor's and members' reviews on *gasp!
Archive 2005-03-01
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The gondolieri were frequently hailed, at this early hour, by the market-people, as they glided by towards Venice, and the lagune soon displayed a gay scene of innumerable little barks, passing from terra-firma with provisions.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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I had terrible butterflies before I gave that talk in Venice.
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It's fun to bring a young child to Venice because you can strike up a conversation with even the crabbiest resident.
Gondola Capsized: Toddler Neared Death
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We eventually took off at 11 o'clock and arrived in Venice at 1.30.
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Very seldome do the state of Venice send any Ambassador otherwise, then enforced of vrgent necessity: but in stead thereof keepe their Agent, president ouer other Marchants of them termed a bailife, who hath none allowance of the Grand Signior, although his port and state is in maner as magnifical as the other aforesaid
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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If the Venice boardwalk is a human circus, as many observers have described it, then the long, keyhole-shaped pier that abuts it is an angling circus, a narrow strip of concrete where the exotic and unpredictable denizens of the Pacific Ocean-needlefish have been reeled up onto the pier; occasionally someone hooks a sea lion-meet the exotic and unpredictable anglers of Los Angeles.
Fishing the Venice Beach Pier
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The bar is now one of the last remaining relics of old Venice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The job the crew carries out is the audacious theft of a mafia safe full of gold they just about get away with, after a fairly thrilling chase through the canals of Venice.
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Fear of bringing up the “greedy moneylender” controversy is why universities refuse to teach The Merchant of Venice, just as fear of the “uncontrolled thug” stereotype led to “Othello, the WASP with anger issues of Venice”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past
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This Sunday, music will once again fill the calles and canales of Venice in a city-wide event called Venezia Suona (Sounds of Venice), now in its 5th year.
Venezia Suona
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Another of the pictures from the mantelpiece shows her during that period, sailing on a gondola down the canals of Venice.
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Though some of these works are significant Samuel Palmer's Arcadian landscape bathed in a pink-and-gold sunset; Arthur Melville's nightscape of Venice, golden stone rising through a velvet blue-black sky, they form in aggregate the least interesting body of work in the show.
Medium is message at Tate Britain 'Watercolour' show
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I think we've got our lines crossed somewhere . I said Venice, not Vienna.
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Hence what she describes as the lamentable four-year period of "apostasy" forced upon Shakespeare after The Merchant of Venice, during which he was obliged to abandon or temper his "elegantly encrypted appeals" before returning to them with a difference in Julius Caesar.
The One and Only
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[81] Shakespeare uses the verb "slubber" in the sense of "perform in a slovenly manner" (_Merchant of Venice_, ii.
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
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A guide along the Danube: From Vienna to Constantinople, Smyrna, Athens, the Morea, the Ionian Islands, and Venice: from the notes of a journey made in the year 1836 by R.
OpEdNews - Diary: The progressive route to compromise
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I've been considering my last question, and I wondered whether the church in the photograph is in Venice?
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On returning from Leoben, a conqueror and pacificator, he, without ceremony, took possession of Venice, changed the established government, and, master of all the Venetian territory, found himself, in the negotiations of Campo
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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During the year 1770 Charles Burney was travelling in Italy and when he was in Venice he wrote on 12 August that he attended a concert in the house of the patrician, Signor Grimani.
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Oh, signori and signorine, what an exquisite town this Venice is!
Letters of Anton Chekhov
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Physicians, Bloundel was at no loss how to act, but, rubbing the part affected with a stimulating ointment, he administered at the same time doses of mithridate, Venice treacle, and other potent alexipharmics.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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The sender of the first correct entry drawn will win a weekend for two in Venice.
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Venice is dying also from the inside out.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was astounded, for I had never seen anyone, even in Venice, dance the forlana so splendidly.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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I will be putting together the mother of all Venice link lists eventually (something that really doesn't exist in a coherant way on line at the moment), and I'll poach from the Basilica's list for sure.
Veniceblog:
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Like Venice, Stockholm is built on the water with canals and waterways criss crossing the city.
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Other influential works include The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Pre-Raphaelitism (1851), The Stones of Venice (3 vols., 1851-53), Fors Clavigera (1871-84), and Unto This Last (1862).
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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While in Venice he brought out another opera, "Agrippina," which had even greater success.
The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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Giasone," which had its premiere in Venice in 1649 and is said to have been the era's most frequently performed opera, is similar to "The Coronation of Poppea" in both its musical style recitative and short ariosi and its view of human nature as amoral.
NYT > Home Page
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I had terrible butterflies before I gave that talk in Venice.
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Since Pallucchini's researches into the known history and provenance of the Modena triptych turned up only references to its existence in north Italy, he concluded it was a work done during El Greco's period in Venice.
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In time the limestone coast became a granary and vineyard of Venice; Istrian marble would front renaissance palaces on the Grand Canal, Dalmatian pine would plank the Republic's galleys, and its seamen would sail them.
The Doges of War
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In the early 1990s, the company's leaders envisioned an office in Venice, Calif., made up entirely of unassigned team space.
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To visit Venice gives the sensation of viewing an ancient and famous movie, with each bit player a star name.
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It might not be the most impressive show in the festival, but it's precisely the sort of experimental, self-regarding indulgence that I'd expect in Venice.
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His winning photographs show a downcast girl in St Marks Square and a girl sitting at a table in Venice.
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You shall find, that of old they made carts and other carriages of it; and for piles to superstruct on in boggy grounds; most of Venice, and Amsterdam is built upon them, with so excessive charge, as some report, the foundations of their houses cost as much, as what is erected on them; there being driven in no fewer than 13659 great masts of this timber, under the new Stadt-house of Amsterdam.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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The Venice Film Festival has always been the showcase of Italian cinema.
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Venice, for better or worse, remains relatively untouched by modern convenience and has a pace of life all of her own.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Venice Charter codified acceptable universal principles and practices for the conservation of historic monuments.
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Alps, and still more, of the sheets of snow on their southern slopes, which supply the refreshing streams of Lombardy: -- the equally steady increase of deadly maremma round Pisa and Venice; and other such phenomena, quite measurably traceable within the limits even of short life, and unaccompanied, as it seemed, by redeeming or compensatory agencies.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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Lewis did indeed tend to lean toward concepts that were prevalent in classical music and had rarely been translated into jazz terms, like fugal form and baroque counterpoint, and he also made his music seem more formal by naming many of his compositions after European cities—"Milano," "Afternoon in Venice," "A Day in Dubrovnik.
The Modern Sounds of Yore
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Spain established complete control over all the Italian states except Venice.
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The word originated in Latin as lacuna, then later appears in Venice as laguna, transforms to lagune in French, then appears, anglicized as lagoon for the first time in 1769 to refer to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.
The Mother of All Lagoons
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I just read a school textbook written about Venice, in addition to know that Venice was the Watertown and there is no other impression of.
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Venice provided the mise-en-scene for the conference.
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She, in turn, was a mentor to him, then domiciled in Venice Beach, but originally from downstate Illinois.
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After a stroll through the attractive gardens, members visited the baroque church with its splendid reredos from Venice and Italian wall paintings.
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Every visitor to Venice is following a tour-guide, identified by a brolly or flag, but I feel smug about the fact the one in the cream fedora bobbing along a sea of bald and greying heads is by far the most knowledgeable.
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In Rome the clutter of history elbowing the jowls of the modern seems overwhelming, in Venice - despite obvious historical layers and tourist-trap intrusions - it all seems made of one piece.
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Very important were the relationships with Venice and with the signories of Malatesta and De Polenta, before the dominion of Papal State, from 1509 to 1859.
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Occupying the whole southern face of the pentagonal was the sole window -- an immense sheet of unbroken glass from Venice -- a single pane, and tinted of a leaden hue, so that the rays of either the sun or moon passing through it, fell with a ghastly luster on the objects within.
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
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He is best known for his activities as official theologian to the Republic of Venice in 1606.
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Like the refugees and renegades who slunk away in the salt marshes of the Adriatic and builded the palaces of powerful Venice on her deep-sunk piles, so these wretched hunted blacks builded power until they became masters of the mainland, controlling traffic and trade-routes, compelling the bushmen for ever after to remain in the bush and never to dare attempt the salt-water.
CHAPTER X
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We couldn't stay in northern Italy without a visit to Venice, that amazing city of canals, gondolas, bridges and churches.
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All arts (saith [4092] Cardan) admit of cozening, physic, amongst the rest, doth appropriate it to herself; and tells a story of one Curtius, a physician in Venice: because he was
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The most exciting exhibition in Venice is an unsanctioned upstart: the unofficial Italian pavilion.
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Hawkers tout their wares, housewives haggle and workmen of Venice's last working boat yard scrub barnacles from the bottoms of slender craft.
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In 1815 he made a concert tour in France and Italy, during which he met Rossini and Paganini, playing at Venice a sinfonia concertante of his own composition, with the latter.
Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
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Rather like the Venetians - the difference being that Venice went on evolving: its Byzantine ogees and trefoils made room for Palladio and all that.
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Francesca Bortolotto Possati Venice Venetian hotelier, vintner and philanthropist Francesca Bortolotto Possati , a third generation owner of the Bauer hotel, has just opened her newest property, the Villa F., a luxuriously restored 16th-century villa on the Giudecca.
Lunch, Italian Style
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Venice, for better or worse, remains relatively untouched by modern convenience and has a pace of life all of her own.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Renaissance Venice wives were free to bequeath their dowries to whom they willed, whereas in Florence they were required by law to leave them to their children or husband.
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The biggest loss was felt in Venice itself, where 21 people, mostly foreign tourists, were drown aboard the motoscafo Altino, which was seized into the air and then capsized in the waters directly off of the Riva degli Schiavoni.
A Tornado in Venice
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In that year, after long friction between Rome and Venice over matters of papal power in secular affairs, Paul V placed Venice under the interdict on the advice of Bellarmine as his personal theological consultant.
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The Grand Canal adjoining the fountain, with gondolas and rowing boats afloat, was once the scene of many festivities and was called Petit-Venice (little Venice).
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But not before I have revisited Florence and visited Milano and Venice.
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Cities generally excite him more than landscapes, living communities more than ruins, and, despite the thoroughness of his Italian sightseeing, only the exoticism of Venice seems to utterly enchant him.
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In Venice and the Netherlands we have the local taste for flower-culture; in Germany we find sculpture in wood and stone; in France the productions of the enameller and the goldsmith; until at length, in the full blaze of the
Illuminated Manuscripts
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The Venice Film Festival has always been the showcase of Italian cinema.
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It proves valuable again at Campo San Rocco, Venice's loveliest small square, where we are introduced to the magnificent Scuola Grande guildhall, festooned with Tintorettos.
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How greatly his painting changed in Venice, replete with the pictures of Titian and Tintoretto, may be seen on entering the National Gallery exhibition, which starts with two of his Cretan icons.
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In 840 a treaty between Charlemagne's grandson Lothair and the doge of Venice, protected Venice's neutrality and guaranteed its security from the mainland.
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Fruili, located just north of Venice, is one of the top regions for Pinot Grigio, along with Alto Adige.
An Officer and an Oenophile
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He has built Barcelona's law courts, extended Venice's cemetery island, and rebuilt the bombed-out Neues Museum in Berlin, a project with many raw nerves waiting to be touched.
David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
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He would have been called a paedophile and thrown out of Venice.
Archive 2008-03-02
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Venice, for better or worse, remains relatively untouched by modern convenience and has a pace of life all of her own.
Times, Sunday Times
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It all looks more real than the real Venice, except for the lack of pigeon pooh.
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Whistler's etchings of Venice were published in two sets.
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Venice is haemorrhaging the very resource which could save it: its own people.
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Venice, Zante, Candie, and Zephalonia, and other the dominions of the Segniorie and State of Venice, and thereby haue made and mainteyned, and doe make and continually maintains diuers good shippes with mariners skilfull and fitte and necessarie for our seruice: and doe vent out of our Realme into those partes diuerse commodities of our Realme, and returne hither into our sayde Realme many good and necessarie commodities for the common wealth thereof:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The outlying islands of the lagoon offer some things that are in short supply in Venice: space, calm and greenery.
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After the ceremony they went on a dream honeymoon in Venice and took a romantic gondola ride.
The Sun
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The second one is custom-made in Venice by Carruthers Guitars.
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This is not just the true condition of life, but of course, depending on the moment, even producing Merchant of Venice may cause both good and evil in the world.
Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times
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Shakespeare, however, has already let us know, in an aside earlier in the scene, that Shylock hates Antonio because ‘he is a Christian’ and because ‘He lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice.’
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A ride on a gondola will give you a fascinating view of Venice.
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Sunset on Valentines day, Piazza San Marco - Venice, diamond solitaire, down on one knee?
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Cafes, fun fairs, tat shops and arts and crafts litter the Venice beachfront, but it is the stallholders rather than the stalls themselves that provide the interest.
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Venice, therefore, had an imperative need to extend its influence over the Dalmatian coastal cities.
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So that if there had been any kind of virtu in Venice and in their institutions, they could easily have reorganized and shown a new face to their fortune, and would have been in time either to have won or lost more gloriously, or to have obtained a more honorable accord.
Discourses
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The first commercial quantities of coffee to enter Europe came through Venice in 1640, sixty years after cacao was commercialized in Spain.
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In the surroundings of Venice alone there were over 2,000 carabinieri and any checking of weapons would take several days.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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He raised his price by leading an army paid for by Venice to victory over the French at Fornovo in June 1495, but his inveterate scheming led to imprisonment by Venice in 1509.
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That their designment halts; a noble ship of Venice
Act II. Scene I. Othello, the Moor of Venice
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Allan's about to get married - he's in Venice organising his pre-nuptial agreement!
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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas" celebrates the Stato da Mar to give the Venetian empire its proper name from its beginning in 1000 till 1503, whereafter Ottoman sea power redirected Venetian expansion to northern Italy.
The Doges of War
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If there is one style of furniture that conjures up eighteenth-century Venice it is imitation lacquer.
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It will be of little interest to Venice veterans or art historians, who will still prefer the guidebooks.
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It’s a kind of touristic load-balancing that Venice desperately needs.
Veniceblog:
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The bar is now one of the last remaining relics of old Venice.
Times, Sunday Times
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When in 1903 Leo XIII died and the Patriarch of Venice ascended to St Peter's throne as Pius X, the Vatican dismembered the political arm of the organization for good.
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The beauty of Venice is that you cross a bridge, turn a corner and you could come to a dead end or to an enormous square.
Times, Sunday Times
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It followed that the government of Venice could not abide papal intrusion into its affairs, an act that constituted an assault on its sovereignty.
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They remind me of this amazing historical costumier in Venice.
Talents, Rank and Beauty
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Venice provided the mise-en-scene for the conference.
