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The little town by the great big dam.(Boulder City, Nevada)(Brief Article)
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February 1, 2001|
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Boulder City, Nevada, brings back its glory days
Boulder City seems as out of place in Nevada as the Mirage's tropical rain forest. Built by the government for Hoover Dam workers and their families, the wholesome company town outlawed alcohol, gambling, and prostitution at its inception 70 years ago.
Despite its lack of vice, in its early days Boulder City attracted celebrities and politicos to its grand Dutch colonial hotel and nearby theater. Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, and John Wayne stayed here. With the remodel of the Boulder Dam Hotel ...
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Corneille heritier de Trissino : Sophonisbe et la naissance de la tragedie moderne.(DEUXIEME SEANCE: L'EUROPE VERS CORNEILLE (L'ITALIE, suite))(l'influence de l'oeuvre de Gian Giorgio Trissino sur l'oeuvre de Pierre Corneille)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature
; Sofonisba, redigee en 1514 par Gian Giorgio Trissino et publiee en 1524 a Rome, declencha le renouveau de la tragedie classique a l'age moderne. Representee pour la premiere fois...
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Spirit of Palladio
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...remained a stonemason had it not been for Count Gian Giorgio Trissino, whose portrait hangs in the Louvre. Palladio had the good luck to be involved in remodelling Trissino's home, Villa Trissino Trettenero, on the northern edge of Vicenza...
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No stone left unturned Andrea Palladio's influence on 16th-century architecture and beyond is revealed in a remarkable survey of his life
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...humanist intellectual and aristocrat, Gian Giorgio Trissino, to extend his villa just outside Vicenza. Trissino saw potential in Palladio. He took him...Being a poet as well as a scholar, Trissino called his protege 'Palladio', after...
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Palladio: Reinventing The Classical Past
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...and architecture by his patron, Gian Giorgio Trissino, the Vicentine aristocrat, scholar...mason, not been taken up by Trissino, he might never have existed...as an architect, and it is to Trissino's credit that he spotted the...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Song of stone; Andrea Palladio.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...and lucky enough to come across a rich patron, Gian Giorgio Trissino, a landowner and scholar, who organised his education...that have made him famous--the churches of San Giorgio Maggiore and the Redentore, both easy to admire because...
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The Four Books on Architecture.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...It continues with Palladio's training first as a stonemason, then as a protege of the influential statesman Gian Giorgio Trissino (who conferred on Andrea della Gondola the name Andrea Palladio), then as an architect and author of two best...
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Woman's capacity to create: the unusual case of Sofonisba Anguissola. (woman portrait painter of Renaissance Italy)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...the second edition of Giorgio Vasari's Le vite de...as a portrait painter. Gian Paolo Lomazzo and later...Raffaello Sopriani, and Gian Battista Zaist placed...texts, such as Giovan Giorgio Trissino's I Ritratti (1524...
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