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The Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice has played host to Henry James, who used it as the setting of The Wings of the Dove; to Isabella Stewart Gardner, who designed her museum in Boston to mimic the space's splendor; to other members of the Boston Brahmin, who brought over guests such as John Singer Sargent and Robert Browning; and to centuries of Venetian elite, who occupied the opulent confines since it opened in 1465, which was, you know, a few decades before the Italian Christopher Columbus came to America.

The bohemian heiress, who was said to have had more than 1,000 lovers, bought the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the banks of the Grand Canal in 1948 and began to display her priceless pieces there.

She completed many large commissions in Europe and America, including gates made of wire and colored glass beads for Peggy Guggenheim's home on the Grand Canal in Venice.

Perhaps the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the twentieth century, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is located in its founder's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

To capture this view of the Grand Canal in Venice, she transformed a room into a camera obscura by darkening all of the windows and leaving only a small opening that projected an image of the exterior world onto the opposite wall, where she hung large sheets of photographic paper.

Currently the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, and provides programming and management for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Currently the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, and also provides programming and management for two other museums in Europe that bear its name: the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin.

Housed in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice, its collection consists of Peggy's personal holdings, augmented by masterpieces from the Nasher Sculpture Garden and the Gianni Mattioli Collection.

A year later, she bought Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, by the Grand Canal in Venice, where she established herself and her collection (open to the public from 1951) for the rest of her life.

Currently, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, and also provides programming and management for two museums in Europe that bear its name: the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin.

The second, the Punta della Dogana, was the original Sea Customs House at the entrance to the Grand Canal in Venice.

Currently the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and operates the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue, New York City, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.

A highly respected artist in the Bay Area, where she taught alongside Clyfford Still and Richard Diebenkorn at the California School of Fine Arts (later the San Francisco Art Institute), Falkenstein moved to Paris in 1950 where she exhibited with Hans (Jean) Arp, Lucio Fontana and Alberto Giacometti; rubbed shoulders with Constantin Brancusi and Henry Moore; and received prestigious architectural commissions, including a stunning set of garden gates, made of welded metal and Murano glass, for Peggy Guggenheim's palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice.

Two walls of the 16th - century Ca» Dandolo Palace overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice are covered with drawings by the Iraqi ceramicist, 63, who was trained in Iraq and California.

Divorcing Ernst and closing her gallery after the war, she returned to Europe and in 1948 bought the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal in Venice, turning it into her home and exhibition space and remaining there till she died in 1979.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and housed in the 17th century Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, world - renowned for its collection of European and American modern art.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the name not only of the collection of one of the most influential art patrons of the 20th Century, Peggy Guggenheim, but also of the Museum in Venice, which is housed in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

Her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world's great art collections.

The Ballon Dog sculptures have been exhibited throughout the world, from the Grand Canal in Venice to the roof terrace of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

For six years he worked away in private, and by September 2010 he was ready for his first solo exhibition, curated by Stefano Cecchetto at the Scoletta dell» Arte dei Tiraoro e Battioro, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

Fagen's specially - created body of work is exhibited at Palazzo Fontana, a Venetian palace off the Grand Canal in the Cannaregio district of Venice.

The Venetian works were made in response to the four noble rooms of Palazzo Fontana, a 16th century building located on the Grand Canal in Venice.

A 1913 John Singer Sargent of the Grand Canal in Venice, with the San Geremia and the Palazzo Labia visible, painted in oil on his last visit to La Serenissima, flew past its $ 5 million high estimate to a $ 9.09 million finish, the third - highest price at auction for the painter.

Here, Gill has produced a lovely, unified evening glow to a view of the Grand Canal in Venice.

Property Location When you stay at Crowne Plaza Hotel Hangzhou Grand Canal in Hangzhou, you'll be connected to the convention center and close to Westlake Culture Plaza and West Lake.

Property Location With a stay at The Ritz - Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal in Abu Dhabi, you'll be on the waterfront and convenient to Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and Sheikh Zayed Stadium.

Located on the former Grand Canal in historic Venice Beach, California Hama was founded in 1979 and was one of the first authentic Japanese sushi restaurants in the United States.

Whether you want to journey down the Grand Canal in a gondola in Venice, take a trip to Juliette's balcony in Verona, wander around the Roman Forum in Rome or eat authentic Neapolitan Pizza in Naples: Italy has it all!

Not only has the market on the curve of the Grand Canal in Venice been in continuous operation since 1079AD, but the Rialto area has a long and fascinating history that begs to be... Continue reading →

Situated on the Grand Canal in Kildare, just a thirty minute drive from Dublin, Cliff at Lyons is a collection of historic rose - clad buildings.

Not exact matches

He opened his first Las Vegas property, Emeril's New Orleans Fish House at the MGM Grand in 1995, followed by Delmonico Steakhouse in The Venetian Resort, Hotel & Casino in 1999 and Table 10 at the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian l The Palazzo in 2008.

Samba Brands Management (SBM) today announced that their James Beard Award nominated Miami eatery, SUGARCANE raw bar grill, will open at Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian & The Palazzo Las Vegas in spring 2016, marking the brand's inaugural expansion.

SUGARCANE raw bar grill is located in The Grand Canal Shoppes in the Venetian, a AAA Five Diamond luxury resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

In addition, a guest favorite — the romantic skating rink above The Venetian's iconic outdoor Grand Canal — will return.

The 6,376 - square - foot, 195 - seat restaurant will be located in the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Las Vegas.

That licensee in turn owns Google Ireland Limited, which employs almost 2,000 people in a silvery glass office building in central Dublin, a block from the city's Grand Canal.

Instead, a spokesman for the Nicaragua Grand Canal Commission announced HKND would publish its own environmental assessment in November.

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Hold hands and get lost in the winding alleys, and then find your own private spot along the Grand Canal or a decadent Gothic palazzo for your dream proposal.

The classic Mario Party objective of buying the star for 20 coins in the waterways of this grand canal.

Our cinematic adventure on the high seas began on February 7th when we set sail from Caldera, Costa Rica, steamed through the Panama Canal and made stops in St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Maarten and Grand Turk.

New presenter Mairéad Ronan joins regular host Joe Lindsay (far left) for a new season of the travel show by paying a visit to Las Vegas, where Mairéad takes a gondola ride along something that looks remarkably like a Venetian canal, Joe flies over the Grand Canyon in a helicopter, and they dine at the famous Bellagio and tour the neon museum.

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In which country will you find the Grand Canal?

We'll be kicking off at around 7.00 PM in the friendly and popular Paper Mill pub / restaurant which is on the Grand Union Canal at Apsley and directly opposite Apsley station, from where trains run north to Milton Keynes, Northampton and Birmingham and south to Watford and London Euston.

Both had woollen scarves wrapped around their necks, and as they stepped beyond the circle of light from the last stand, they pulled them a bit higher, up around their ears, no strange thing to do in the face of the wind that came at them from the direction of the Grand Canal, just around the corner of the church of San Vidal.

(Mayhew Press Release) A 14 - month - old dog, who was shockingly abandoned and discovered in the Grand Union Canal, is now on the lookout for a new forever home after being rescued by The Mayhew Animal Home.

In the heart of the city, by two gentle canals and the Royal Palace, The Grand Canal House Suites boldly reinvents rich history: a legendary jewel amo...

• Amsterdam: Explore the canals by night in a saloon boat • Athens: View the Parthenon from the Grande Bretagne Hotel rooftop • Barcelona: Go on a tapas crawl • Belle - Île, France: Enjoy oysters at Le Bistrot du Port • Berlin: Tap into the underground nightlife scene • Budapest: Stay at the restored Four Seasons Gresham Palace • Copenhagen: Browse contemporary design shops • Florence: Tour the Vasari Corridor at the Uffizi • Galway, Ireland: Pair oysters with Guinness at Moran's Oyster Cottage • Iceland: Marvel at the Northern Lights • Isle of Skye, Scotland: Go for whisky tastings at Tallisker distillery • Istanbul: Wander the Grand Bazaar • London: Start with breakfast at the cabmen's shelter on Pont Street • Madrid: Visit the Black Paintings room at the Museo del Prado • Moscow: Tour the Diamond Vaults within the Kremlin • Paris: Snack on bread from Du Pain et Des Idees • Peloponnese, Greece: Stay at the ultra-luxe Amanzoe • Prague: Explore Prague's historic center • Rome: Buy a gelato at San Crispino • Santorini, Greece: Lounge at Red Beach • Sicily: See the mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale • Siena, Italy: Attend the medieval - era Palio horse race • Spain: Take an architecture - themed drive from Bilbao to Granada • Stockholm: Visit the Vasa Museum • Venice: Shop for glassware at L'Angolo del Passat • Versailles, France: Explore Andre Le Notre's gardens at Versailles • Vienna: Attend a concert at the Musikverein

So dream big, whether you want to spot gorillas in the mountains of Rwanda, rent an Aston Martin and speed through southern France, sail up an Alaska fjord, book a sumptuous suite overlooking Venice's Grand Canal, or hole up in a lagoon - side bungalow in Bora Bora.