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Messing about in dictionaries.(Book Review)
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June 1, 2005|
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language, edited by Jack Lynch; Atlantic Books, 2004, $49.95.
"BELIEVE ME, my young friend, there is nothing--absolutely nothing--half as much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." To many of us, Ratty's advice to Mole could equally apply to dictionaries.
In an age of postmodernist, politically correct obsessives, Professor Jack Lynch's book Samuel Johnson's Dictionary is a welcome relief and comfort to the word-whipped. And Lynch's introduction is a beautifully ...
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Baldassare Peruzzi 1481-1536.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Francesco Paolo Fiore, and Pier Nicola Pagliara, eds. Baldassare Peruzzi 1481-1536. Venice: Marsilio, 2005. vii + 668...1. This volume is the outcome of a seminar on Baldassare Peruzzi organized by the Centro Internazionale degli Studi...
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A heritage that makes two cities kin
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Tiber, for which he employed his fellow Sienese, the architect and artist Baldassare Peruzzi. Chigi called on Raphael to add to the frescoes already designed by Peruzzi, inspired by Ovid's ''Metamorphoses,'' depicting the loves of the...
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Die Villen von Siena und ihre Bauherren: Architektur und Lebenswirklichkeit im fruhen 16. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...comprehensive scope and criticized for its superficial incompleteness. Bodefeld describes the "Peruzzi style" developed by Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1536), the Sienese architect who worked in Rome and returned to his native city after...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Sandburg, poet, 1878; Tom Mix (Thomas Edwin Mix), actor, 1880; Khalil Gibran, writer, 1883. Deaths: Baldassare Peruzzi, architect and painter, 1536; Seth Ward, bishop, mathematician and astronomer, 1689; John Dennis, critic...
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And what's more . . .
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Blades is running even with Ernesto Perez Balladares in the Panama elections . . . Renaissance frescoes attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi and stolen from Italy's Loggia Stati Mattei have been returned after a century in New York's Metropolitan Museum...
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Sandburg, poet, 1878; Tom Mix (Thomas Edwin Mix), actor, 1880; Khalil Gibran, writer, 1883. Deaths: Baldassare Peruzzi, architect and painter, 1536; Seth Ward, bishop, mathematician and astronomer, 1689; John Dennis, critic...
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It's O'Neal's, and It's Art
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the experts have to look up, but some are so familiar one wonders how they could have been passed over, such as Baldassare Peruzzi, Gustave Dore, Sir Edward Landseer and Sir Lawrence Alta-Tadema. The latter's absence is a good example of...
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Baths of Diocletian; still in process, a monumental interior renovation. (Rome)
Magazine article from: Interior Design
; ...vision of a Sicilian priest, Antonio de Duca, dedicated to the worship of angels. Previous schemes proposed by Baldassare Peruzzi and Giuliano da Sangallo were rejected in favor of the plan by Michelangelo which took full advantage of the giant...
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San Pedro, tal como era.(Italia)(TT: San Pedro, the way it was.)(TA: Italy)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; ...entre los partidarios de los dos tipos de planta, segn como cambiaba el arquitecto encargado de realizar la obra. Baldassare Peruzzi volvi a la cruz griega, pero poco tiempo despus Antonio da Sangallo, el Joven, opt por la cruz latina, mientras...
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Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...its architecture, which he had often drawn. It was admiration for Raphael that led other artists, starting with Baldassare Peruzzi, to be buried there. The erection of bust portraits began with that of Taddeo Zuccari, who died in 1566. Only...
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