Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concurrently, Jane Stouffer, daughter of Professor Samuel Stouffer, has her first exhibition in this country after having shown last year in Florence. Her casein paintings and color woodcuts of Venetian, Florentine and other motifs make their debut in high company at the Gropper, exhibiting considerable control and a highly personal use of the media...
...School of Criticism, reports that every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with the Metropolitan, I would clean in the following order: straighten up the room, dust Venetian blinds, clean window sills, brush lampshades and upholstered furniture, dust surfaces, mop floor, vacuum rugs . . . This order makes sense: it chases the dirt from above to below. But operas don't work this...
...opens, as an opera should, with an overture. Overtures, though not all composers seem aware of it, are for tidying up. The overture to the Marriage of Figaro is one of the best; it impels you to a gay scurry ideal for the purpose. And then, on to the Venetian blinds! You can't. When the curtain goes up, Figaro is measuring and planning and Susanna is trying on a hat. Their music is for rearranging your furniture in different positions . . . And you don't have much time because soon Figaro will swing into Se vuol ballare...
...Bunshaft. Recalls Wilde "I admit I asked Gordon plaintively if there could be any compromise. I'd have loved a fireplace! Well, I have a magnificent office in plain taste." A $100,000 mock-up section was thrown up by Turner Construction Co., and everything, from Linotile to venetian-blind drawstrings, wa tried on it. To reduce heat, a new green-tinted glass was used. To break up space, new movable paneling was developed. To keep maintenance cost low, dark grey Quincy granite (12,000 sq. ft.) was used around the base, Vermont white marble...
Beside the fame and accomplishments of Tintoretto and Titian, Venetian snobs considered simple Bassano a peasant. But the painters respected him. Titian turned commissions over to him, telling clients that since they were people of taste he knew that they would be pleased with Bassano's work. When Bassano's reputation as an animal painter was growing, a client of Tintoretto, in an argument over a portrait of himself, threatened to fly into a "beastly rage," only to hear Tintoretto placidly say, "Go to Jacopo. He is an excellent painter of beasts. He will do a wonderful portrait...