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Venetian school. Renaissance. Paris Bordone (born c. 1500, Treviso, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died Jan. 19, 1571, Venice) was a Renaissance Venetian painter of religious, mythological, and anecdotal subjects. He is perhaps best known for his striking sexualized paintings of women. After his father’s death, Bordone moved with his mother to ...
The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (c. 1766–70) by Francesco Guardi. The Venetian navy ( Venetian: Armada) was the navy of the Venetian Republic which played an important role in the history of the republic and the Mediterranean world. It was the premier navy in the Mediterranean Sea for many centuries between the medieval ...
Talian ( Venetian: [taˈljaŋ], Italian: [taˈljan], Portuguese: [tɐliˈɐ̃] ), or Brazilian Venetian, [2] is a dialect of the Venetian language, spoken primarily in the Serra Gaúcha region in the northeast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It is also spoken in other parts of Rio Grande do Sul, as well as in parts of Espirito ...
Titian - Mythology, Renaissance, Venetian: The Venus and Cupid with an Organist and the Venus and the Lute Player are variations on the theme of the earlier Venus of Urbino. Aside from the emphasis on the idealized beauty of the nude goddess, it is generally believed that symbolism is involved in these pictures, although the precise meanings have been variously interpreted. Beauty of sound ...
Britannica acquired Merriam-Webster in 1964 and Compton's Encyclopedia as well in the early 1960s. Benton died in 1973, before the fifteenth edition was published in 1974. The newly titled Britannica 3 was composed of a ten-volume Micropædia, a 19-volume Macropædia and a one-volume guide to the encyclopædia's use, called Propædia.
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period of 3 ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Nov. 2, 1475, Malpaga, Bergamo (aged 75) Bartolomeo Colleoni (born 1400, Solza, Bergamo [Italy]—died Nov. 2, 1475, Malpaga, Bergamo) was an Italian condottiere, at various times in Venetian and Milanese service and from 1454 general in chief of the Venetian republic for life. He is most important as a pioneer of field artillery tactics.
