Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fickle tastes of the vagabonding undergraduate be unsatisfied with Goethe and Shakespeare and Professor Howard, he can still spend a pleasant hour between 11 and 12, by attending Professor Edgell's lecture on Venetian painting in Fine Arts Id in the New Fogg Museum. The rich colors of the Venetian masters contrast pleasantly with the finer drawing, but more restrained work of the Florentine school. Let it be remembered also that among the artists of the Venetian school are Giovanni. Bellini, Titian, Tinterette, Veronesse, Tiepolo and many others...
Died. Professor Luigi Luzzatti, 86, onetime (1910) Italian Premier and Minister of the Interior; in Rome. As a young man, he, a Venetian Jew, was accused of treason for starting a gondolier mutual aid society, in Venice. Besides holding government positions he created the "Peoples Banks," and two years ago was popularly nominated first president of the proposed "Italian Academy...
...second dance of the Harvard and Radcliffe Graduate Schools' Society will be held in Agassiz House on April 1, from 8.30 until 12 o'clock. Music will be furnished by Dick Bowers' Venetian Orchestra...
...pictures recently acquired by the Museum--namely a Madonna and Child by the Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini, and a Pleta by Carlo Criyelli--illustrate in an unusually interesting way the importance of this through technical knowledge...
...foundation was applied, and the paint was replaced as it had been. In all, the operation took a year and a half of the most delicate work. The results were amazing to students of painting methods, since the picture today is an admirable example of one of the great Venetian masters, instead of being a total loss...