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Sentence Examples At the same time, new actors discovered in Rome also perform on this cinquecento Venetian stage. At dusk, I like sitting on the bank of the Grand Canal listening to the soft splashes of water against the ancient Venetian stones. And here we are, waterbussed to Academia for a sublime platter of Venetian antipasti. The Dialogo, one of the first pieces of art theory in Venice, takes the form of a discussion between two painters, a Tuscan and a Venetian. Where she used to use a Venetian red stain, now she might prepare a primed canvas with a raw sienna stain. The general statements formulated by these companies followed not the double-entry system, but the Venetian style of credits and debits. When they saw what would happen, though, on February 26th, 1453, six of their ships slipped away with one Venetian. Special care has been taken to ensure that the new development respects the needs of Venetian life and culture. To remove mildew stains from Venetian blinds, mix together some fine emery powder and linseed oil. It has the soft rock music, dry ice, sparkly lights and people floating around as if they are popping off to a masked Venetian ball. When you see a 500-year-old Venetian building, it may be a bit shabby and possibly even in danger. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Venetian literature mentions the beccaficos, literally translated as the fig-pecker. The Sunflower Masquerade Ball in aid of St Leonard's Hospice is bringing a touch of Venetian festivity to York. In this painting, he shows himself as an extravagantly dressed Venetian gentleman with carefully curled hair. The exhibition will also explore the influence of Venetian masters Titian and Tintoretto and will include work by Canaletto. This gave rise to a whole new style of English glassware quite distinct from intricate Venetian fashions. The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water. Masi, one of the most famous producers in this region, has put Venetian wines on the map. In 1559, a Venetian government official transcribed a report by a Persian traveller who observed the popular Chinese pastime of drinking tea. Glass from La Granja carried on many of the classic Venetian techniques such as latticinio. Show More Sentences This ambitiously conceived and lavishly presented exhibition aims to celebrate the whole range of Venetian Renaissance art. He left Rome on 5 July 1463 when Bessarion was appointed as papal legate to the Venetian Republic. A clear and colorless glass, called cristallo in Italian for its resemblance to rock crystal, was a widely sought Venetian product. In 1591 Bruno returned to Italy after being invited by the Venetian nobleman Zuane Mocenigo to educate the aristocrat in mnemonics. The Italian crew will row their flagship, the Disdotona, on the way back from the Henley Regatta, accompanied by two Venetian racing fours. A trio of traditional Venetian rowing boats will make their way down the Thames to Richmond on Monday afternoon. It's the tastiest, cheapest and most authentically Venetian way of staving off hunger and fatigue. The hall was lit by elaborate pendant candelabra, with shades of Venetian glass, many of which were brought to Bhuj by Ram Singh himself. Faint remains of a Venetian fort lie crumbling on the hill above the old quarter. Candlestick stems are topped with silk shades, wall lights are backed with Venetian mirrors and slender brass stems are capped by plated shades. So this little wax portrait of the greatest Venetian painter and his son is a heartbreaking document. The colour and spectacle of Venetian carnival is coming to York to mark the climax of this year's Early Music Festival. Reynolds invoked the genius of the Venetian painters like Titian to support his argument, and also Rubens. Watch this space for photos and tales of Venetian waterways, Veronese opera and Dolomitian vistas. I've never been to Tuscany, haven't floated down a canal in a Venetian gondola, nor thrown a coin into the Trevi Fountain. The Venetian comedy also includes a pair of social parasites living off the prodigality of the extravagant young couple. With the collapse of the Venetian Republic in 1797, the Murano glassworks fell into decline. Yorkshire potter Arnup's latest work concentrates on geometric forms, especially from Venetian floor designs. Byron's enthusiastic exploration of the Venetian fleshpots eventually scuppered his relationship with Marianna Segati and her husband. Firedogs were made to occupy the tall and wide fireplaces in the principal rooms of Venetian palazzi. Show More Sentences Both types of lead-tin yellow were employed by Venetian painters concurrently in the 16th century. The Accademia gallery is to Venetian painting what the Uffizi is to Renaissance art in Florence. Candelabras and aromatherapy candles are lit in the evening and reflect spectacularly in the large Venetian mirror. But a major development in the 18th century was the internationalization of the patronage of Venetian painters. Some of the elements of marketing orientation can be traced far back to ancient Greece, the Phoenicians, and the Venetian traders. Sightseers will be able to hire boats, resembling Venetian gondolas, to take trips on the canal. But above in the hidden gardens of the Kastro, the 14th century fortified Venetian castle above the harbour, there is no rushing or impatience. It was carefully packed in foam peanuts and bubble wrap as if it were a delicate piece of Venetian glass. Its empire instead consisted in commerce, particularly through the control that Venetian coinage exerted over international trade. The Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio pictured Saint Augustine seated at a table in a roomy study, pausing, his pen raised from the paper. He was patronized by the Pisani family and he was the official portrait painter to the Venetian academy. As the Venetian patriciate developed new strategies for collective self-definition, so too did the doges. As for thine eyes, shut them and turne them aside from these venereous Venetian obiects. The Venetian republic forbade its citizen nobles from assuming titles such as prince, duke, marquis, or count. Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings. In 1561 Francesco expanded on this concept by noting that young Venetian patricians were destined to mature into grave senators. As 10 per cent owner of Venetian Macau, he said he had to put up a proportional share of the company's initial capital of 200 million patacas. He made a clean sweep by removing all the interior walls and covering the outer walls and ceiling in white Venetian plaster. In Austria and neighboring regions, glassmaking enjoyed royal patronage and the Venetian style was introduced with royal support. The overall impression of the early rooms is of a sybaritic indulgence which echoes the richness and confidence of Venetian Renaissance society. Show More Sentences When Bajazet was created in Verona in 1735, Neapolitan opera had dethroned the almighty Venetian opera. He developed an eclectic style under the influence of Nicolas Poussin and the Bolognese and Venetian masters whose works he could study in Rome. Their cicchetti offerings with the likes of tempura monkfish with dipping mayo and Venetian frittata, looked seriously tempting. Starkey moved in the highest circles of the Paduan and Venetian intellectual aristocracy. The staff are entering into the spirit and designing a crew outfit for the occasion based on Venetian boatmen complete with ribbons and sashes. Vasari's herms, markers of the boundaries of the territories of Venice, had a clear association with the Venetian empire. Moorish details blended easily with elements of other European revival styles, including Venetian and Byzantine architecture. At the very least I am living proof that turpentine, cadmium red, burnt sienna, Venetian red et al are not carcinogenic. The Venetian has gondolas with gondoliers who imitate Italian accents. On his return to Amsterdam by c. 1562, he became one of the earliest artists to introduce to the Netherlands the rich colours and painterly brushwork of Venetian painting. Page Six says they dined on mussel soup, crayfish and artichoke risotto at a tony Venetian restaurant. The Venetian police force is headquartered in the former convent, Santa Zaccaria, another site that has seen more exciting days. The ridotto was the first gambling locale in Europe, for hundreds of years a symbol of Venetian decadence. As the story goes, many Venetian nuns were noble women forced into the convent to save their families from bankruptcy. It may be as well to mention an early Venetian design of about 1475 wherein the Emperor has a three-pointed trifoliate crown surmounted by a trefoil. Italian, and specifically Venetian, eighteenth-century decorative arts were increasingly popular at this time, advocated by Wharton and other tastemakers. His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees, who were as careful as himself with money, whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision. His vesper psalms were important for establishing the practice of writing for double choir, which was to become a special feature of Venetian music. Saint John the Evangelist was popularly associated with Venetian rule, and showing him evoked the free and voluntary decision made by the city to join with Venice. She arranged the room to resemble a Venetian antechamber, or private salon, and it contains many Venetian objects as well as paintings and pastels by James McNeil Whistler. Show More Sentences The form of the building recalls ancient Venetian palazzi, but it is treated in a more abstract fashion, with an emphasis on the flatness of the external surface. The figure of Justice as a symbol of the chief virtue of the Venetian republic, or as a representation of the republic itself, also goes back at least to the trecento. First, identification of Turkish toponyms with those in the Venetian documents permits us to locate all the toponyms found in the Venetian sources. Orpiment and realgar are yellow and orange mineral species of arsenic sulphide, used in 16th-century Venetian painting particularly, but at various other times also. The Venetian government and the confraternities were the most significant patrons, and their commissions to Venetian artists created a Venetian stylistic tradition. The drink is the Bellini, a mixture of white peach juice and sparkling prosecco, named after the fifteenth-century Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini. We picked our way through plates of freshly cooked 'cicheti', sort of Venetian tapas, and sampled that day's short list of local wines by the glass. I have trolled Rodeo Drive, Worth Avenue, and upper Madison Avenue and traveled to Las Vegas, where I stood agog for hours in the Bellagio and Venetian hotels. Like most of Sandback's work, untitled, it dates from 1977 and uses seven strands of Venetian red knitting yarn strung taut from ceiling to floor. Taylor Tiles sells Bisazza's range, including its individual 20 mm x 20 mm, handmade glass tesserae, where gold leaf is sandwiched between two layers of Venetian glass. Once upon a time, no self-respecting Venetian altar went without a carpet like these ones. The light pastel lacquer and subtly spaced designs lacked the finesse of Venetian lacquer, but the rendering of flowers and birds was worthy of an easel painting. Made from a voile fabric in a honeycombed Venetian style, these blinds create a lovely window feature, while allowing diffused light to get through. Next time you see a Venetian window, a triangular pediment, a coved gallery ceiling, or a Georgian terrace with lined stucco, remember who started it all. In 1518 he produced, for the high altar of the church of the Frari, one of his most world-renowned masterpieces, the Assumption of the Madonna, now in the Venetian Academy. In a defensive capriccio of the period, the artist presents himself as a Venetian nobleman in a classical courtyard reminiscent of Sansovino's old library in Venice. Returning on the boat we were discussing the Venetian gondoliers. The Venetian sources contain references to Cabot's being involved in house building in the city. Several Adriatic ports were under Venetian rule, but Ancona and Ragusa retained their independence. To avoid succumbing to Venetian rule, these two republics made multiple and lasting alliances. Show More Sentences The Venetian city state was founded as a safe haven for the people escaping persecution in mainland Europe after the decline of the Roman Empire. The Venetian navy was used in the Crusades, most notably in the Fourth Crusade. Such attempts were more than commonplace among the doges of the first few centuries of Venetian history, but all were ultimately unsuccessful. Genoese and Venetian fondachi littered the coastline from North Africa to the Crimea. The Fra Mauro map was made between 1457 and 1459 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. The Venetian blinds and the drapes, she thought, would completely black out the room from the ocean side. Francesco Guicciardini, a Venetian envoy, stated that hundreds of ships would pass Antwerp in a day, and 2,000 carts entered the city each week. Immediately before the battle, the Venetian fleet had secured a victory in the coast surrounding the city. Musicians included Benedict de Opitiis, Richard Sampson, Ambrose Lupo, and Venetian organist Dionisio Memo. Felicia was born in Liverpool, a granddaughter of the Venetian consul in that city. In the late 13th century, a Venetian explorer named Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China. The colour and texture of Dobson's work was influenced by Venetian art, but Van Dyck's style has little apparent influence on Dobson. In the 14th century, raids by Moor pirates forced the Venetian Duke of Crete to ask Venice to keep its fleet on constant guard. In The Gondoliers, there are the Spanish cachucha, the Italian saltarello and tarantella, and the Venetian barcarolle. In 1995, Hodgkin printed the Venetian Views series, which depict the same view of Venice at four different times of day. In the 13th century, Venetian festivals called regata included boat races among others. The name Argentina was probably first given by the Venetian and Genoese navigators, such as Giovanni Caboto. The Venetian merchants were impressed by the fact that the Chinese paper money was guaranteed by the State. Works by Claude Monet include Venetian scenes such as San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk and examples from his Rouen Cathedral and Water Lilies series. From 1204, the Republic of Venice controlled Corfu and slowly all the Ionian islands fell under Venetian rule. Show More Sentences On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. New exploration voyages were launched by Venetian John Cabot, who in 1497 made landfall in North America. The King promptly dispatched Mainwaring to the Venetian Republic as his representative, over the protests of the Spanish ambassador. As Genoese and Venetian merchants opened up direct sea routes with Flanders, the Champagne fairs lost much of their importance. The proposed salvage team comprised 30 Venetian mariners and a Venetian carpenter with 60 English sailors to serve them. Competitive regattas are also held using the Venetian rowing technique, using both gondolas and other types of vessels. The project proposes laying a series of 79 inflatable pontoons across the sea bed at the three entrances to the Venetian Lagoon. The Venetian territory was then handed over to Austria and briefly ruled as part of the Archduchy of Austria. He was uniquely poised to fight the Byzantine Empire when that conflict arose after Charlemagne's imperial coronation and a Venetian rebellion. The renaissance which led to the modern Greek theatre, took place in the Venetian Crete. Peter returned from Venice with a current world map drafted by a Venetian cartographer. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The Fourth Crusade, originally intended to liberate Jerusalem, actually entailed the Venetian conquest of Zara and Constantinople. In 1298 the Genoese defeated the Venetian fleet at the Dalmatian island of Curzola. The Venetian naval army of bishop Eugenio Contarini clashed with the Pisan army of Archbishop Dagobert in the sea around Rhodes. Two hundred Venetian ships assisted in capturing the coastal cities of Syria after the First Crusade. It was a joint effort of Venetian colonists and Cretan nobles who attempted to create an independent state. Although the defeat had turned into a victory, the events of 1509 marked the end of the Venetian expansion. Daniele Dolfin, commander of the Venetian fleet, thought it better to save the fleet than risk it for the Morea. Levkas in the Ionian islands, and the bases of Spinalonga and Suda on Crete which still remained in Venetian hands, were abandoned. Show More Sentences By the end of the year, the French troops were occupying the Venetian state up to the Adige. The polychoric motets of the Venetian school furnish striking possibilities for multiple brass choirs. There is dispute as to whether the Polo family is of Venetian origin, as Venetian historical sources considered them to be of Dalmatian origin. Marco and his uncle Maffeo financed other expeditions, but likely never left Venetian provinces, nor returned to the Silk Road and Asia. In 1305 he is mentioned in a Venetian document among local sea captains regarding the payment of taxes. He also set free Peter, a Tartar servant, who may have accompanied him from Asia, and to whom Polo bequeathed 100 lire of Venetian denari. Around the same time, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China. Other powers, in an attempt to break the Venetian hold on spice trade, began to build up maritime capability. The sea walls at the southern shore of the Golden Horn were defended by Venetian and Genoese sailors under Gabriele Trevisano. The Venetian captain ordered his men to break open the gate of the Golden Horn. In 1351 the Venetian government outlawed spreading rumors intended to lower the price of government funds. By the time Venetian galleys first appeared, in 1314, they were latecomers. In the desert cities, lengths of cloth, pottery, Venetian glass slave beads, dyestuffs and jewels were used as payment. Fernandes's marker was only surpassed ten years later, in 1456, by Alvise Cadamosto, a Venetian explorer in Henry's service. Although the reproduction is exact, there are minor differences between it and the Venetian original. In this article, some images are from the Venetian edition and some are from the Frazer reproduction. At a remarkably young age, Cadamosto cast out as a merchant adventurer, sailing with Venetian galleys in the Mediterranean. The next year, he served the same position on a Venetian galley to Flanders. Cadamosto served as Venetian proveditor in Cattaro, then in Corone, and was sent on diplomatic missions to Dalmatia and Herzegovina. Speakers of Venetian Italian make up the third most spoken mother tongue, after Portuguese and assorted German dialects. Show More Sentences Already cultivated in Algarve, the accessibility of Madeira attracted Genoese and Flemish traders keen to bypass Venetian monopolies. Some Larger hotels such as Venetian Hotel and Holiday Inn even provide a free shuttle between them. District residents were emulating the famous Venetian Carnival, when, years later, the carnival was organized by the Huanchaco Club. In 1298 the Genoese destroyed the Venetian fleet at Curzola, but were themselves defeated in 1354 at Sapienza in Greece. Adventurous travelers from far west, most notably the Venetian, Marco Polo, would have settled in China for decades. The islands are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. New ports were built, including those at Malamocco and Torcello in the Venetian lagoon. Its strategic position at the head of the Adriatic made Venetian naval and commercial power almost invulnerable. Other islands of the Venetian Lagoon do not form part of any of the sestieri, having historically enjoyed a considerable degree of autonomy. The organizers of the referendum backed a plan to build a new cruise ship terminal at one of the three entrances to the Venetian Lagoon. Lido and Pellestrina are two islands forming a barrier between the southern Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea. Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, written in the late 16th century, features Shylock, a Venetian Jew. At the time Venetian rococo was well known as rich and luxurious, with usually very extravagant designs. The Venetian Senate passed sumptuary laws, but these merely resulted in changes in fashion in order to circumvent the law. Two of the most noted Venetian writers were Marco Polo in the Middle Ages and later Giacomo Casanova. In the early 16th century, there was rivalry in Venetian painting between the disegno and colorito techniques. Toward the end of that century, the center of the Venetian glass industry moved to Murano, an offshore island in Venice. Byzantine craftsmen played an important role in the development of Venetian glass, an art form for which the city is well known. Some words with a Venetian etymology include arsenal, ciao, ghetto, gondola, imbroglio, lagoon, lazaret, lido, Montenegro, and regatta. Italian and Venetian would become important languages of culture and trade in Dubrovnik. Show More Sentences The Italian language as spoken in the republic was heavily influenced by the Venetian language and the Tuscan dialect. An inverted subject pronoun may sometimes develop into a verb ending, as described in the previous section with regard to Venetian. The Venetian quadrilateral comprised Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano. The Venetian merchant Marco Polo supposedly visited Hangzhou in the late 13th century. In the middle of the 13th century, Venetian bankers began to trade in government securities. Felicia was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, a granddaughter of the Venetian consul in that city. She did not squint not as the sun crept through the Venetian blinds and seemed to ignite her already-luminous smaragdine eyes. The situation of the Venetian party in the wane of the eighteenth century had become extremely critical. Some finishes in this posh loo include stone, zebrawood, Venetian plaster, fabric, and leather wall coverings. An elaborate Venetian Gothic loggia of ogee arches and quatrefoils in circles served as an entry porch at street level. This revered award will be presented at The Global Six Sigma Awards Gala Dinner on Wednesday, June 28, 2006, at The Venetian, Las Vegas. Little ships in glass were always popular in Venetian collections since Venice had a long-established maritime tradition. There he whips up some favourite Venetian dishes such as seafood risotto, gnocchi with Spider crab and Tiramisu. And before long he's whipping up some favourite Venetian dishes such as seafood risotto, gnocchi with Spider crab and Tiramisu. Don't miss the old quarter in Corfu Town with its Venetian architecture and cricket on the main square. There are as many forms of the Serliana as there are names for it, such as Venetian or Palladian window. Behind her a film crew set up beneath an open-air Venetian pavilion. This season her range includes a leopard-print armchair, panther-shaped lamp, pink crochet pouffe and Venetian mirrors in on-trend copper. The chuppah was lit by the glow of dozens of votive candles, which reflected beautifully in the mirrors of the Venetian room and gave the entire room a warm glow. Consulting the Description, he found that it included impossible transcription errors that had been introduced to editions of Tacitus by Venetian printers in the 15th century. Show More Sentences The subject of mystery novelist Donna Leon's Through a Glass, Darkly is the investigation of a crime in a Venetian glassworks on the island of Murano. The Venetian Arsenal apparently produced nearly one ship every day, in what was effectively the world's first factory which, at its height, employed 16,000 people. The Genoese occupied it in 1255, beginning hostilities with the sacking of the Venetian neighbourhood and the destruction of the ships docked there. Languages with some degree of this feature include Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Greenlandic, Nenets, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Turkish, Korean and Venetian. In 1699, the Republic was forced to sell two mainland patches of its territory to the Ottomans in order to avoid being caught in the clash with advancing Venetian forces. By the 16th century, Venetian artisans had gained even greater control over the color and transparency of their glass, and had mastered a variety of decorative techniques. In the 18th century, Venetian painting had a revival with Giovanni Battista Pittoni, Tiepolo's decorative painting and Canaletto's and Guardi's panoramic views. In 1481, Alvise Cadamosto was elected captain of the Venetian Alexandria galley fleet, ending his naval career on the same ships where he started. In August, 1454 at the age of 22, Alvise and his brother Antonio embarked on a Venetian merchant galley, captained by Marco Zen, destined for Flanders. From 1442 to 1448, Alvise undertook various trips on Venetian galleys to the Barbary Coast and Crete, as a commercial agent of his cousin, Andrea Barbarigo. His father was Giovanni da Mosto, a Venetian civil servant and merchant, and his mother Elizabeth Querini, from a leading patrician family of Venice. The Venetian Alviso Diedo commanded the ships in the harbor. The silk of Catanzaro supplied almost all of Europe and was sold in a large market fair in the port of Reggio Calabria, to Spanish, Venetian, Genovese and Dutch merchants. One view is it comes from the Polo family's use of the name Emilione to distinguish themselves from the numerous other Venetian families bearing the name Polo. He welcomed foreign visitors to his court, such as the Venetian merchant Marco Polo, who wrote the most influential European account of Yuan China. After traditional land routes to India had been closed by the Ottoman Turks, Portugal hoped to use the sea route pioneered by Gama to break the once Venetian trading monopoly. In 1489, the first year of Venetian control of Cyprus, Turks attacked the Karpasia Peninsula, pillaging and taking captives to be sold into slavery. On 14 May 1509, Venice was crushingly defeated at the battle of Agnadello, in the Ghiara d'Adda, marking one of the most delicate points in Venetian history. The Aegean islands came to form the Venetian Duchy of the Archipelago. The Piraeus Lion in Venice, in front of the Venetian Arsenal. Show More Sentences Many centuries later, the Venetians claimed that the treaty had recognised Venetian de facto independence, but the truth of this claim is doubted by modern scholars. It became the largest of the maritime republics and was the most powerful state of northern Italy until 1797, when Napoleon invaded the Venetian lagoon and conquered Venice. The fall of the Venetian monopoly on the spice trade in Europe and the resulting drop in prices of spices contributed to the commercial development of the continent. Cabot is known today as Giovanni Caboto in Italian, as Zuan Chabotto in Venetian, as John Cabot in English, as Jean Cabot in French, and as Juan Caboto in Spanish. To the north, Italy borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, and is roughly delimited by the Alpine watershed, enclosing the Po Valley and the Venetian Plain. Lead, in the form of Venetian ceruse, was extensively used in cosmetics by Western European aristocracy as whitened faces were regarded as a sign of modesty. The alliance with the restored Byzantine Empire increased the wealth and power of Genoa, and simultaneously decreased Venetian and Pisan commerce. Corbould used the 007 stage at Pinewood for the sinking of the Venetian house at the climax of the film, which featured the largest rig ever built for a Bond film. The city's garrison resisted until February 1082, when Dyrrachium was betrayed to the Normans by the Venetian and Amalfitan merchants who had settled there. He is not one to resist the resonance of a mid-15th century sallet or helmet from the Venetian fortress of Chalcis on the Aegean island of Negroponte, for instance. He may have been the Venetian sculptor, Alevisio Lamberti da Montagne. The Holy See received 19 galleys and two galliots, Spain was given 58 galleys and six galliots, while the Venetian share was 39 galleys and four galliots. That ill-made doublet of green cloth must be exchanged for one of velvet slashed in the Venetian style like mine own, with hose stuffed and bombasted according to the mode. The citadel walls that crown the hill, on the slopes of which the modern city descends amphitheatrically into the sea, are remnants of Venetian fortifications. Medick, chief executive of the MRCGroup Research Institute, which, in partnership with NBC and Nielsen, opened the facility at the Venetian, feels differently. The opening of Inferno 21, in which Dante compares the barrators boiling in tar to the hubbub of the Venetian arsenal, exemplifies the lucidity of the translation. The paperback reads like a collection of recipes for gorgeous projects, including a Pressed Glass and Crystal Necklace, Venetian Glass Earrings and a Lampwork Glass Bracelet. Nafplion in the Gulf of Argolis was once the capital of Greece and is a delightful old town with Venetian buildings, a Moorish castle and plenty of candlelit restaurants. Venice, especially during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and Baroque periods, was a major centre of art and developed a unique style known as the Venetian School. Unique Venetian furniture pieces included the divani da portego, and long rococo couches and pozzetti, objects meant to be placed against the wall. Show More Sentences Venetian Gothic architecture is a term given to a Venetian building style combining use of the Gothic lancet arch with Byzantine and Ottoman influences. The word ghetto, originally Venetian, is now used in many languages. Slave commerce during the Late Middle Ages was mainly in the hands of Venetian and Genoese merchants and cartels, who were involved in the slave trade with the Golden Horde. The port was a major site for the Arab slave trade and Venetian merchants were said to have lived in Massawa and nearby Suakin in the 15th century. Some historians believe the legend of Antillia was first insinuated cartographically in the 1367 portolan of the Venetian brothers Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano. Venetian ceramics, textiles, sculpture, enamels and glass will also be on view. Venetian blinds, although not as effective as draperies, can be adjusted to let in some light and air while reflecting the sun's heat. Venetian mirrors, hand-loomed rugs and hammocks add to the easy-breezy vibe at this secluded jungle retreat. The Corsair softly chuckles by venetian blinds, sipping an Oregonian wine, a three quarter profile showing in silhouette. I need those really cool thin wood venetian blinds to add the finishing touch to my kitchen so that I can start cooking in the nude again. Heavy, lined curtains or even just venetian blinds can help insulate windows while you're saving up for the double-pane models. Simply install a set of venetian blinds or other adjustable window covering over the skylight opening. The orange street light spills in through the venetian blinds in a very film-noir way. It's early morning and my eyes feel like venetian blinds and I'm wondering if my ears aren't working too well either. He was relaxed in his comfortable chair, and now that Mr. Larsin had opened up the venetian blinds, sunlight streamed in and lit up the room. Morning light streamed through the venetian blinds of the vacuous police office. It is known, however, that wooden venetian blinds were in use in America by the 1760s, the fashion for them having traveled here from London. In the hotel room there are no venetian blinds, but the white net curtains belly and fold in the breeze of the open window. Maybe we could tell readers that cricket is a game played in trench coats, in dingy offices lit by neon signs blinking through venetian slats. In fact, instead of conventional wings, Smith went for 120 slats like a venetian blind. Show More Sentences Back then, he sold custom picture framing, table pads, venetian blinds, window shades and did glass installations. The beds are four-posters, the mirrors venetian, the rugs Aubusson and every room is filled with beautiful objects. The film is a pastiche of screwball and noir, full of fast talk, funny banter, and venetian blind shadows. A rectangle of white clapboard siding, nearly 10 feet in length, is punctured on the left by a glass window outfitted with venetian blinds. To solve the problem, the designers later added venetian blinds. Venetian naval efforts in the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles in 1717 and 1718, however, met with little success. Venetian playwrights followed the old Italian theatre tradition of Commedia dell'arte. Dimmed rooms were hidden behind venetian blinds and enclosed in darkness. Venetian traders from Italy held a monopoly on the spice trade in Europe, distributing cinnamon from Alexandria. Venetian citizens generally supported the system of governance. Styles include venetian, roller, plisse roman and facette, and if you're not sure exactly what each of those terms means log onto www. Venetian rule over Cyprus lasted for just over 80 years until 1571, when the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Selim II Sarkhosh invaded and captured the entire island. Methods for estimating the effective longwave and solar optical properties of a venetian blind layer for use in centre-glass glazing analysis. Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes garden products from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the mainland, game, and polenta. Other sophisticated methods exist for control of venetian blinds and prediction of indoor illuminances based on correlations between calibrated interior sensors. The hotel nightlights shine behind the drawn venetian blinds and the slatted patterns on the curbside cars give them the look of anchored smallcraft with lapstrake hulls. Examples from Classical Literature The pilots name was Mikali, and some of those on board belonged to the Venetian gallies of Alexandria. A little way on the right is the beginning of the Frezzeria, a Venetian shopping centre second only to the Merceria. The Venetian aid that had been promised did not arrive even at Euboea till two days after the Turks had captured the city. The Venetian fleet in 1203 drew near enough to the walls to throw a flying bridge from the ships to the ramparts. Their report upon the Venetian glassworks was to the effect that France knew more about the matter than Venice. The guelder rose bushes were bright with their clumps of red berries, glittering and transparent like Venetian glass. The ciborium has cipollino columns, antique caps, pointed arches, and Venetian dentil enrichments with marble inlays. The happy-go-lucky Venetian methods were no longer to disfigure the country. In 1792, it was the Venetian Embassy, under the Terreur a saltpeter factory. The Venetian dromond was to other merchant-ships as the dromedary to other camels. All the vaults are domical, and those of the nave spring from corbels carved in the style of Venetian fifteenth-century work. The partitions were hidden under rich tapestries of poppy-coloured Venetian brocatelle with handsome designs in green and gold. But the style of the decadence makes itself less felt in the work of the calabrese than in that of the Venetian. At the sides, a canone and canzonet by Giordani, together with a French and Venetian canzonet, with music. A Venetian says Ci a thousand times in a day, and hails every one but his superior in that way. It's right over the river, the veranda is, and I clomb onto it, and through the Venetian blind I see the 'ole party. At Cnossus, save some blocks of the amphitheatre, the Roman monuments visible in Venetian times have almost wholly disappeared. The Venetian shutters often had to be lowered in the summer to attenuate the great heat. It is old Gattamelata, the condottiere of the Venetian forces in the long wars with Padua. Zane, the Venetian commander, wasted his force waiting at Zara, then learned that the allies were at corf. Show More Sentences The tent flap was pushed aside, and a Venetian crossbowman backed in holding one end of Rachel's traveling chest. The Venetian dentil was also introduced as a label round arches and as a string course. It has slightly pointed arches, with Venetian dentil borderings, and mosaics in the spandrils. A cluster of stephanotis in a low Venetian vase stood in front of that portrait, like flowers before a shrine. Find more words! 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