Sentences with phrase «venetian live»

Ciao beautiful people, I am Val and I am a Venetian living in London — the one who suggested Grain Store for a great plant - based meal in the city!

As the 27th novel unfolds in Donna Leon's exquisite chronicle of Venetian life in all its blissful and sordid aspects, Brunetti is ever more impressed by the intuition of his fellow Commissario Claudia Griffoni, and by the endless resourcefulness and craftiness of Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary and gate - keeper, and reminded of the ever - lasting virtues of his own family.

«Donna Leon introduced Commissario Guido Brunetti in 1992's Death at La Fenice, and readers around the globe have been grateful ever since... [In] Earthly Remains... Leon masterfully weaves several plot threads and takes the reader through the labyrinth of Venetian life that has nothing do with sipping a cappuccino on the Piazza San Marco.»

Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life.

«It is a pleasure for a reader to settle in to one of Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries, once again to have one of those glorious Italian lunches with his wife, Paola, and their children, Raffi and Chiara, and to learn, as we do in Beastly Things, which part of the seamy underside of Venetian life Brunetti will now uncover....

«Few aspects of Venetian life have escaped the scrutiny of Donna Leon's highly entertaining series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti.

During her 30 - year Venetian life, Peggy Guggenheim continued to collect works of art and to support artists, such as Edmondo Bacci and Tancredi Parmeggiani, whom she met in 1951.

Philip Rylands said: «Peggy Guggenheim's departure from New York and the beginning of her Venetian life in 1947 marked the close of the heroic phase of her collecting.

Not exact matches

San Luis Sausage is currently found on menus at the Ritz Carlton / JW Marriott at LA Live, the St. Regis, Hiltons, Westins, The Wynn and The Venetian in Las Vegas and more.

I am a Venetian girl living in Sweden, and I absolutely adore this mix of Chioggia beet (tastes like home to me!

Alessandro Bernardi, a Venetian - born dishwasher - turned - cabaret singer now living in London, had been chosen by the Italian embassy to sing Italy's national anthem before the game in Wembley Stadium.

In the living room, the custom sofa, in a JAB Anstoetz fabric, is by Dune, the 1950s chair (left) is in a Dedar fabric, and the custom armchair is covered in Arabel fabrics; the 1930s orange lacquer — and - shagreen sideboard is French, the 1950s Murano glass table lamp is by Seguso, the 1955 chandelier is by FontanaArte, the custom rug is by Beauvais, and the Venetian plaster walls are in Benjamin Moore's Stonington Gray.

Azera's elegance is further brought to life through a bold color palette including Black Onyx Pearl, Porcelain White Pearl, Silver Frost Metallic, Smoke Gray Metallic, Hyper Silver Metallic, Venetian Red Pearl, Bronze Mist Metallic and Midnight Blue Pearl.

And when Paul at last has the chance to meet Ida at her Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret — one that will change all of their lives forever.

Donna Leon's wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have been praised for their intricate plots and gripping narratives, but also for their insight into the culture, politics, family life, and history of Venice, one of the world's most treasured cities and Leon's home for over thirty years.

«Donna Leon's Venetian mysteries never disappoint, calling up the romantic sights and sounds of La Serenissima even as they acquaint us with the practical matters that concern the city's residents... The Waters of Eternal Youth... [is] a bittersweet story that makes us appreciate Brunetti's philosophical take on the indignities, insanities, and cruelties of life.»

From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this beloved series.

Praising Donna Leon's international best - selling Commissario Guido Brunetti detective series as one of the top to savor, Time raved that «no one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice or the way favoritism and corruption shape Italian life like Leon's Brunetti... the thoughtful Venetian cop with a love of food, an outspoken wife, and a computer - hacker secretary who plays man Friday to his detective.»

Leon not only offers superb plotting and engaging dialog, but also captures the atmosphere of Venetian daily life.

Over twenty - one books this sharp, kind - hearted native Venetian has exposed readers to contemporary Venice in all its aspects: its arts and architecture, food and family life, but also its crime and insidious corruption.

Whether you are just moving into the Stockton area or finally getting a pet after living in the area for years, the Venetian Pet Hospital can provide for all of your animal's health - related needs.

The city is situated in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline, between the mouths of the Po and Piave rivers and derives its name from the ancient Veneti people who lived in the area around the 10th century BC.

Since the Venetian era, the Platía Syntágmatos is the center of public life.

The living room has a very grand appeal with its Saltillo tile floors and yellow Venetian plastered walls.

Each includes four or five suites, furnished with old - world antique charm (many with Victorian antique baths, carved Venetian and Dutch colonial beds, and Oriental rugs); and each shares a large common living room and chaise - surrounded pool.

Venetian Prima top two floors of Venetian tower, 1500 square feet, hot tub, living room, walk in closets, four TVs plus all the other stuff.

If you would like to live the atmosphere of an old Venetian Palace of the XIII, Al Palazzo Lion Morosini rooms, historical residence, will be content you.

The suites at the Palazzo and the Venetian are different from traditional hotel suites that have a separate bedroom and living room.

The Strip in Vegas is my favourite stomping ground; I've tried it with success at the Cosmopolitan, Bellagio, Venetian, Caesars Palace, MGM Grand — the $ 20 upgrade is practically a way of life there!

The Castle offers 42 deluxe rooms in historical style with many authentic pieces of furniture; 6 junior suites in Venetian style decorated with refined stuccoes, suggestive fireplaces and original plumb balconies; 2 royal suites with bedroom on intermediate floor which dominates a big living - room with foldaway cooking area.

Palazzina Grassi is more like a private club, a combination of a hotel and very unique spaces where guests can live as a Venetian.»

EUROPEAN and AMERICAN paintings framed by Gill & Lagodich include (in alphabetical order): Milton Avery, Conversation in Studio, 1943; Jules Adolphe Breton, The Song of the Lark, 1884; Elbridge Ayer Burbank, six Native American portraits, Kah - Kap - Tee / Moqui, Wick - Ah - Te - Wah / Moqui, Ko - Pe - Ley / Moqui, Pah - Puh / Moqui, Shu - Pe - La / Moqui, Ho - Mo - Vi / Moqui, 1898; Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877; William Merritt Chase, North River Shad, c. 1910; Thomas Cole, New England Scenery, 1839; Jasper Cropsey, Blasted Tree, c. 1850; Gustave Courbet, Reverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau), 1862; Thomas Doughty, Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower), 1835; Thomas Eakins, Study for «William Rush Carving His Allegorical Statue of the Schuylkill River», c. 1876 - 77; DeScott Evans, The Irish Question, 1880s, Marsden Hartley, The Last of New England — The Beginning of New Mexico, 1918/19; George Hitchcock, Flower Girl in Holland, c. 1887; Winslow Homer, Peach Blossoms, c. 1878; Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942; George Inness, Crossing The Ford, 1848; George Inness, Summer in the Catskills, 1867, George Inness, The Mill Pond, 1889, George Inness, Early Morning, Tarpon Springs, 1892; George Inness, The Home of the Heron, 1893; George Inness, After A Summer Shower, 1894, Joshua Johnson, Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, 1803/05; Otis Kaye, Heart of the Matter, 1963; Fernand Leger, Reclining Woman, 1922; Fernand Leger, Still Life, 1926; Edouard Manet, Still - Life with Carp, 1864; Edouard Manet, Bullfight, 1865/66; Julius Gari Melchers, Mother and Child, c. 1906; Jean - Francois Millet, In the Auvergne, 1866/69; Jean - Francois Millet, Bringing Home the Calf; Jean - Francois Millet, The Shepherdess; William Sidney Mount, Bar - Room Scene, 1835; Camille Pissarro, The Place du Havre, Paris, 1893; Severin Roesen, An Abundance of Fruit, 1860; Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Essex Canal, 1896; John Singer Sargent, Venetian Glass Workers, 1880/82; John Singer Sargent, Thistles, 1883/89; John Singer Sargent, The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907; Elihu Vedder, The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887; Charles Wilbert White, This, My Brother, 1942; Hale Woodruff, Twilight, 1926; and more...

Author Francine Prose, in the first installment of her four - part series «The Lives of the Artists,» weaves a tale of a Venetian painter whose artistic talent is as much a curse as it is a gift.

Among the highlights of the show are The Sun (1990), a floor installation of 360 triangular elements of white marble forming a grand circle, and the witty Self - Portrait (c. 1959) in which the artist's head is but a small ball of paper resting on a larger - than - life wooden torso with incredibly elongated legs (both works at Perry Rubenstein); the ethereal The Angel (1989) made of 125 spheres of thin clear Venetian glass delicately resting on the floor at Michael Werner; and at Mary Boone the five Concave Figures (1994), one of Byars» final works.

The sound piece Venetian Walk is a recording of sonic traces from the Biennale by S / QU / NC / R, featuring sounds by Emeka Ogboh, Camille Norment, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Steeve McQueen, Carsten Höller and Måns Månsson, Christian Boltanski, Jeremy Deller, Isaac Julien, Julius Eastman, Sonia Boyce, Theaster Gates, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Vincent Meessen and a live impro by Binelde Hyrcan.

Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery celebrates 15 years of partnership with the still life painter James Gillick, and presents 19 loaned works spanning his career (11 June — 4 July), while new works by leading Venetian glassmaker Lino Tagliapietra are on show at Mallett (until 4 July).

In fact, she seems to be simply a Venetian woman posing for Titian, in a painting that breaks the barrier between religious art and real life, and shows why Titian is the most human of Renaissance artists.

The entertaining anecdote that has Titian advising Venetian dignitaries en route to Bergamo to have their portraits painted by Moroni as he made them look natural, although apparently flattering, was in all likelihood a gibe directed at a provincial painter who deviated from canons of portraiture governed by etiquette rather than the attempt to embody a living person.

Highlights of the Hermitage include the Faberge jewellery collection, gold artifacts from Eastern Europe and Western Asia, plus masterpieces of the High Renaissance, the Baroque, Flemish and Venetian art, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Expressionism across all the genres like portraiture, landscape art, genre - painting, still life and history painting.

A second gallery includes an aquarium featuring teh reconstruction of the typical habitat and marine life in the Venetian Gulf.

The earliest recorded still - life paintings were Hare (1502) by the German painter Albrecht Durer, and Dead Bird (1504) by the Venetian - trained artist Jacopo de» Barbari, who worked at courts in Germany and Holland.

LG: The great Venetian view painters like Canaletto and his student, Francesco Guardi painted scenes of 18th century life along the canals in Venice.

There are no shading or other features to mitigate this problem, so Falconer has installed Venetian blinds and bought fans for bedroom and living room areas.

Rather than stupid turnstiles and police checks, we need housing that allows Venetians to live in their city, rather than tourist B&B s, and an economy that is diverse rather than solely about tourism.

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A sophisticated Southwestern style provides desert - living at its most luxurious, with ornate detailing, including soft, Venetian - plaster lines, hand - carved woodworking, a welcoming waterfall, a footbridge and an abundance of attractive cacti.

So far, two walls in my living room are a «foxfire brown», my kitchen / dinette is a faux painting that looks like aged gold venetian plaster, the kids rooms are crazy colors they picked out, and my powder room is gold — like shiny gold (scary at first but it worked out!)..

;) And then got busy with a trowel & joint compound & «venetian plastered» the living room ceiling looong b4 it was called that.

I painted it in oil - base winter white by Ben (Moore) on the rec of a successful designer in the ex-family, and who also taught me how to do venetian plaster on the living rm ceiling - long before anybody knew what that was!