Sentences with phrase «old venetian»

:) Now that so many homes are «light & airy» I am heading for jewels & Tuscan orange - yellow - gold; that sunset color on old Venetian plaster.

Similar mirrors cover the panels of the Pavilion's rotunda beneath a chandelier of old Venetian crystal beads suspended from the ceiling — a place where the architecture reflects the viewer and the surrounding vegetation.

Our B & B offers guests a chance to stay in a characteristic Venetian house (known as a Ca»), finely restored and decorated by a local artist... Read more in the style of the old Venetian Republic.

They enjoy classic design with old Venetian style touches and feature kitchenette with mini fridge and mini bar.

Found at a short distance from the magical Venetian port of Chania, Crete, this stylish hotel combines old Venetian style with up to date comfort in a gorgeous setting.

BB Best Holidays Venice is located in the historical center of the town in an old Venetian Palace of XV century, offering a peaceful, charming guesthouse in a splendid location

Located in the heart of the city in an old venetian palace of 15th century, two minutes walking from the Rialto Bridge and ten minutes from Piazza San Marco the BB enjoys an ideal location to explore walking the charm of this amazing city.

Not far away, you can visit the old Venetian and Neoclassical mansions in the upper town, and shop for traditional goods in its thriving market.

A thick carpet protects the very old Venetian terrazzo and makes the room cozy.

Located on the north coast of the stunning island of Crete and only 3 kilometers from the old Venetian town of Rethymno, The Odyssia Beach hotel assumes an excellent p...

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.

Everyone has a small boat and a garden, and even the air conditioning is provided via an old Venetian method of using exterior curtain rod systems that hold damp cloth and cool the houses down as wind passes through.

Take a stroll to Panagia Paraportiani, a national cultural monument and church of spectacular architecture; also the old Venetian castle or Kastro on the hill overlooking Hora.

A small road descends to two old Venetian bridges.

Our fave charming Europe hotels include an old Venetian palace and a converted newspaper office.

Not exact matches

Just a few hours earlier, I had met Boulud at the Venetian hotel and casino, where the 59 - year - old New York — based megachef was set to open the first of three restaurants in as many months.

Bell stars as Alice, a soft - spoken yet tightly - wound 34 - year - old married to Noah (Ed Helms), the dull owner of a struggling venetian blinds store in Vero Beach, Fla..

The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror.

«The latest Commissario Guido Brunetti Venetian police procedural is a super whodunit... Brunetti and Vianello are marvelous as they piece together clues mostly using old fashion shoe leather but also ably supported by the IT gurus Signorina Elettra and Pucetti.»

«[A] droll and intelligent series... As Brunetti makes his tactful way through a Venetian maze of office politics, family connections and moral conundrums, his focus switches from school children procuring narcotics to old people victimized by greedy and unethical medical professionals.»

Holiday - makers don't generally make it to Nicosia because it doesn't have a beach — but it does have an old town surrounded by thick Venetian walls that are over 400 years old.

Its harbour is in the capital where several alleys lead steeply to the citadel, a landmark that can be seen for miles and elsewhere there are old churches, monasteries and Venetian castles and homes.

This afternoon, visit an artisan studio to get a hands - on introduction to the centuries - old art of Venetian mask making.

Old school Venetians came out in full force to support all around Renaissance Man,...

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.

When we climbed the Venetian city walls up the limestone mountains we enjoyed the most wonderful views of the Bay of Kotor and the roofs of the old town.

A 20 - minute stroll will take you into the Old City where historic churches and mosques are surrounded by ancient Venetian Walls, once built to defend the city.

The Venetian - inspired old town is an excellent place to start your Croation adventure.

From a former monastery on a private Venetian island, to a historic building that encompasses an ancient Chinese courthouse and Old Qing Dynasty theater, each reflects its destination's heritage through design and architecture.

One of the most impressive places to visit in Chora is Kastro, the Venetian quarter that constitutes the oldest spot in Chora.

The hotel's 19th - century façade is matched by the Old World opulence interior, which is defined by Venetian furniture and patterned period wallpaper.

Our accommodations are a converted 17th century palazzo in the charming Venetian old port.

Take a day or a few hours and visit the old town of Rethymnon — take a stroll down the alleys down towards the Venetian harbour, be sure to take a camera and do not miss a single photo opportunity.

Breakfast can be served anytime and anywhere in the hotel, allowing guests to enjoy the varied interior of multicoloured hallways in bright red to acid almond green, huge rugs in vivid colours and exposed Venetian bricks salvaged from an old farmstead.

Rethymnon still maintains its old aristocratic appearance, with its buildings dating from the 16th century, arched doorways, stone staircases, Byzantine and Hellenic - Roman remains, small Venetian harbour and narrow streets.

Unmistakable Venetian architecture rises above the atmospheric backstreets and sun - drenched waterfront, old world tavernas peering out over the quaint little harbour of colourful fishing boats and the ancient sea wall.

Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth Theater; May 22 Calgary, Southern Jubliee; May 23 Montreal, Place des Arts; May 30 Las Vegas, The Venetian; June 10 Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall; June 14 Austin, The Long Center PAC; June 20 at 2 pm and 8 pm San Diego, Copley Symphony Hall; July 11 Orlando, Dr. Phillips Center; July 18 Charlottesville, John Paul Jones Arena; August 28 San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall; August 29 Durham, Durham Performing Arts Center; September 10 St. Louis, Powell Hall; September 11, 12, 13 District of Columbia, Strathmore; September 16 Philadelphia, Mann Center; September 18 Providence, Providence Performing Arts Center; September 25 Chicago, Auditorium Theatre; October 1 Indianapolis, Old National Center; October 2 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Theater, October 3 New York, Barclays Center; October 13 Salt Lake City, Abravanel Hall; October 15 Columbus, Ohio Theater; October 18 Houston, Jones Hall; October 22 Dallas, Music Hall at Fair Park; October 24 Portland, Keller Auditorium; October 25 Hamburg, O2 World; November 8 Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall; November 11 Brussels, Palais 12; November 12 Madrid, Palacio Vista Alegre; November 13 Barcelona, Auditori Forum; November 14 Rome, Auditorium Conciliazione; November 15 Zurich, Hallenstadion; November 21 Dublin, Convention Centre; November 22 San Jose, San Jose Civic Center; December 5

Apart from the Venetian military, the problem was, as he wrote, «first from the numbers of modern houses built within the walls of the palace and even upon its old foundations; secondly from the inhabitants having pulled to pieces and utterly destroyed some parts of the antique work; and lastly from their having so blended the ancient and modern work together by repairs and alterations that it was not without great difficulty they could be distinguished.»

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

A hallmark of his design is the realisation of new forms through old techniques, bringing together heavy - duty steel and metal with traditional Venetian techniques, such as stucco lucido and marmorino plasterwork.

Venetian vedute, Tuscan cassone panels, and a masterpiece of British painting all feature in London's upcoming Old Master sales

Like many other shows, it had political content but it also came with feeling — for the underappreciated and underpaid Venetian labor force that makes the lagoon city such a lovely place for tourists like us, represented by way of strange and beautiful objects made from broken bits of old Murano glass.

Wilson worked with Venetian craftsmen to develop an innovative process for layering traditional Murano glass mirrors together and also conceived of a technique that reversed the centuries - old mirror making tradition — etching and painting the verso black rather than silver — in order to lend a ghostly appearance to the reflection that the mirror casts.

«It is not clear when the essentially formalist notion of inner light became a commonplace in the criticism of Venetian painting of the sixteenth century, but it was certainly a major concern of the Bavarian painter Max Doerner, whose handbook The Materials of the Artist and Their use in Painting, with notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters (1921), had been published in an English translation in New York in 1934 and came to be much used in the circle of the abstract expressionists.

The views of a charming Venetian piazza, of the artist's garden, or of boats rocking in a harbour, the nude models, faithful hounds and snoozing cats are all back in the Royal Academy for the 244th year of the world's oldest and largest open art exhibition — it's just that this time they're very, very small.

The renowned painter and filmmaker decided to add a few floors of a pink, Venetian - style palazzo to an old stable in the far West Village, outraging some and delighting others.

Julian Schnabel welcomes us in his «Pallazzo Chupi», a Venetian palace converted from an old factory in the West Village near the Hudson River in New york, dressed in purple pajamas, whose state indicates that he must have acquired them shortly after his first solo - museum exhibition.

Belén Uriel, Good Companion Rooms (old and new side by side), 2011, inkjet photographs printed on cotton paper, 45 x 40 cm each; Belén Uriel, Manual, 2012, nickel - plated tubular modular steel structure and okume drilled wood panels, 200 x 350 x 100 cm; Lubaina Himid, Venetian Palace, 1997 - 1998, acrylic on canvas, 110 x 146 cm; Karl Holmqvist, Give Posters a Try, 2013, A1 size wallpaper.

The second section, Collecting to astonish, collecting for research, begins in three visually impressive rooms, dedicated to Venetian explorers, which narrate the history of scientific expeditions by using an intentionally «old - fashioned» style; explorers» memorabilia and artifacts are placed into imposing glass and wood cabinets in the main gallery, while a number of hunting trophies and stuffed animals are arranged onto the walls of the two adjoining rooms.

Centuries - old glass techniques meet cutting - edge video technology in an exhibition that celebrates the beauty of Venetian glassmaking.