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LIKE MOURNING COACHES WHEN THE FUNERAL IS DONE
Extravagant showmanship, a proclivity toward the taking of calculated risks, and unabashed greed- all salient features of the Venetian way of life- are epitomized in Francesco Guardi’s “Il Ridotto” , which also sums up the decadence of eighteenth-century Venice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco Ghisellini, Francesco Guardi, Giacomo Casanova, Giammaria Ortes, Jean Cocteau, John Ruskin, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Luchino Visconti, Percy Shelley, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Thmoas Mann, Warren Adelson
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THE SINKING OF NARCISSISTIC DELIGHT
For a thousand years Venice held “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. The Napoleon saw a bluff- and called it. … Napoleon himself commanded the French armies in Italy. But for five centuries … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Miller Venice, Allan Miller Berkshire Review, Elaine Pilkington, Gentile Bellini, Goldoni, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Lord Byron, Mayor Orsoni Venice, Philippe Monnier, Rick Steves, Vittoro Carpaccio, William Wordsworth
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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice
For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Byron Childe Harolde, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Elaine Pilkington, Giorgione, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Goethe, Janine Flynn, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Palladio, Palma Vecchio, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Tintoretto, Titian, Vasco da Gama, Vittoro Carpaccio, Warren Adelson
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