“[…] and when he hunted, less from necessity than for amusement, he would be naturally led to vary his venatorial practices.”

“Her main personal experience was in the social class which is primitively venatorial still, canine under its polish.”

“The figural sgraffito in the architrave represents venatic scenes of a lion and a hunter.”

“These factors combine to aid the game and stretch to its utmost limit the venatic instincts of the fowler.”

“Italian builders created an elegant Renaissance house with a bay window, which was amply decorated with sgraffitos representing predominantly venatic scenes and biblical figures.”