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(WIP) venetian mask, pink elaborate braids, purple eyes https://t.co/AI6pUy5A2A

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2020-10-06

Born Francesco Guardi Italian member of the Fine Art Academy of Venice & his veduta (cityscapes) show him to be a of the Venetian School with his brothers Guardi is seen as one of the last practitioners of the classic Venetian school of painting

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2020-10-05

The painting ‘Madonna and Child’ by Venetian Renaissance artist was confiscated by the Nazi looting organisation (the ERR) from the Wacker-Bondy warehouse at 236 Blvd. Raspail, Paris, France, in 1940. Today, its whereabouts are still unknown.

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2020-10-04

Born Tintoretto Italian & masterful exponent of the Venetian Renaissance school Renowned for the boldness & dynamism of his brushwork & speed he worked at Known as Il Furioso (The Furious) work is characterised by dramatic gestures muscular …

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2020-09-29

in 1669, the Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia in Crete to the Ottomans.

It is the 2nd longest siege in history, lasting 21 years.

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2020-09-27

1496 Polish diplomat Hieronymus Jarosław Laski was born. He gained notoriety for the conspiracy to overthrow John Zapolya, Hungarian King & Transylvanian voivode, together with Ludovico Gritti (son of Venetian Doge Andrea) and Suleiman, which failed and led to his arrest. 1/

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2020-09-27

The genius of Giorgione was his break from the past & it’s archaic style in Venetian art. Portrait of a Warrior with his Equerry (c1509), Adoration of the Kings (1506-7) & Portrait of an Old Woman (c1508)

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2020-09-22

I love his intense psychological portraits which are forebears you the expressionist German portraits of the 20th C. Here’s a Venetian Woman (1505), Burkard von Speyer (1506) & Portrait of a Girl (1515). The latter drawing fascinated me as a child.

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2020-09-17

We have acquired three important paintings:

two delightfully solemn portraits of young boys by the Dutch artist, Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85), and an imaginary Italianate coastal view by the Venetian painter, Francesco Guardi (1712-93) 👇

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2020-09-17

Architectural Study: Three Sections of a Venetian Arcade, John Ruskin, 19th century https://t.co/eQwSxtVVft

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2020-09-14

Beautiful illumination of Crucifixion of Christ from the so-called Chotěšov Missal National Library CZ XIV C 3 (ca. mid-14th century, Bohemia). According to art history literature, canon painter was also an excellent painter of panel paintings, acquainted with Venetian painting.

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2020-09-14

Something like a mask
The future has already passed
How could we see from inside the cage
Carnivals have gone to better places
Leaving us stranded on a sinking island
Art by Conor Smith 'Venetian rose'

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2020-09-13

Portrait of a Venetian Senator, Domenico Tintoretto, 16th-17th century https://t.co/vOerL0upgY

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2020-09-04

The battle fought in August 1499 off north of Navarino (Peloponnese). The combatants were a vessel commanded by Kemal Ali, and two vessels commanded by Antonio Loredan and Albano d'Armer. The were victorious.

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2020-09-01

Venetian courtesan and widow, so that you can tell the difference. Which may be v. important to your social life! By Lucas de Heere, whose day is today.

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2020-08-29

The Italian Renaissance painter Titian died on this day in 1576.
He was considered to be the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.

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2020-08-28

—which I would much rather call by its other name of Venetian Sumach. Venetian suggests all the brocades and velvets of Titian and Paolo Veronese and that is exactly what this lurid rhus calls to mind. https://t.co/3mvuOVpRKe

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2020-08-19

Some great skyscape paintings coming in for our August calendar challenge with https://t.co/Re5FalZaTT including this Venetian scene by Jennifer Alsop. Enter to win vouchers from

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2020-08-17

1499 First encounters that preceded the decisive Battle of Zonchio (on August 25th) between the and fleets occurred. Zonchio would represent an important victory for the Ottomans during the Second Ottoman-Venetian War (1499–1503)

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2020-08-12