ultrabasic rock
ultrabasic rock An
igneous rock that consists almost entirely of
ferromagnesian minerals and possesses no free
quartz, and with less than 45%
silica (SiO
2). ‘Ultramafic’ is a partial synonym.
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Canaletto's nephew: a traveling exhibition of paintings by Bernardo Bellotto, whose 18th-century views document Italian cities and many northern European capitals, revealed an artist who, according to the author, surpassed his more famous uncle on all counts.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...for Italian artistic forms in European courts. For collectors on the Grand Tour, desire was also whetted by Giovanni Paolo Pannini in Rome and Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768) in Venice, painters of the architectural glories of Italian civilization...
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Old Masters At Osuna
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/7/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...which is fully documented, and-perhaps more fitting for home consumption-an idealized architectural view by Giovanni Paolo Pannini and a "Still Life With Musical Instruments" by Bartolomeo Bettera of Bergamo. An extensive, fully illustrated...
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Cities, squares and courts: the restoration of Place Stanislas in Nancy is the occasion for a splendid exhibition on urban design in Enlightenment Europe.(Exhibitions)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...screens, bearing over-sized reproductions of well-known paintings of cityscapes by Bernardo Bellotto and Giovanni Paolo Pannini, which were not borrowed for the exhibition. The first room is devoted to the Paris of Louis XIV and instantly...
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FirstAlert[tm] 6/17: Stock Market Flirts With Disaster.
News Wire article from: Investrend; 6/17/2009; 700+ words
; ...of music finish too long after the end. Igor Stravinski Today is: Stewarts Root Beer Day. Happy Birthday: Giovanni Paolo Pannini, William Hooper, John Robert Gregg, Igor Stravinsky, M. C. Escher, Ralph Bellamy, Red Foley, David Stringbean...
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Antiques.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 11/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...was Rome, where antiquity still lived in the half-buried golden ruins that the eighteenth-century painters Giovanni Paolo Pannini and Hubert Robert had made familiar. In the Vatican were galleries of ancient sculptures that represented to...
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Reviven el siglo 18 en la Ciudad Eterna.(Cultura)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 11/11/2005; 700+ words
; ...lugares sagrados para los apasionados de la escena", explica Petrossi. Las pinturas de Sebastiano Ceccarini y Giovanni Paolo Pannini ilustran la esttica de una poca en la que los hombres de la nobleza se endosaban pelucas blancas y se perfumaban...
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Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giovanni Paolo Pannini , 1691-1765, Italian painter. Pannini abandoned the study of architecture for painting, becoming famed for his broad cityscapes, or vidute. His commemorative paintings of public events work tiny human figures into vast...
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Panini, Giovanni Paolo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Panini, Giovanni Paolo (or Giovanni Paolo Pannini ) (or Gianpaolo Panini ) ( b Piacenza, 17 June 1691; d Rome, 21 Oct. 1765). Italian painter. He trained as a quadraturista and stage designer in Piacenza, then in 1711 settled in Rome...
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Giovanni Paolo Panini
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giovanni Paolo Panini see Pannini, Giovanni Paolo .
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Servandoni, Giovanni Niccolò Geronimo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Servandoni, Giovanni Niccolò Geronimo (1695–1766). Florentine architect and painter, he trained under Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691–1765), the pre-eminent C18 painter of real...
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Panini
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Panini (or Pannini ), Giovanni Paolo (or Gianpaolo ) (1691–1765). Italian painter. He was born in Piacenza, where he trained as a quadraturista and...
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