cheap
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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cheap cheap and cheerful simple and inexpensive (late 20th century, perhaps in specific contrast with the early 19th century
cheap and nasty, which linked low price with bad quality).
it is as cheap sitting as standing extra comfort will not necessarily cost more; this saying recorded from the mid 17th century, is often used literally.
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Letter: Dome truths
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 4/17/2005; ; 252 words
; ...St Peter's Basilica to Bernini ('Rome clears up', 10 April). The work of Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana, it was completed in 1593, five years before Bernini was born. Franco Pagliari Rosemarkie...
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The Reform Club in London: a nineteenth-century collaboration. (architectural design of private, social club)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...his death, and which was altered in the second half of the sixteenth century by Michelangelo (1475-1564) and Giacomo della Porta (c. 1537-1602).(9) Barry's genius was to draw on the Italian High Renaissance to create a new architectural...
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Thomson thought Rubens buyer
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/19/2002; ; 369 words
; ...O'Reilly Galleries, New York. The figure was one of the studies commissioned by Pope Innocent X in 1652 for Giacomo della Porta's polygonal Fountain of the Moor in Rome. A roomful of flamboyant Bernini terracottas are currently on view at...
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UNITED IN PRAYER . . . TOGETHER IN GRIEFWHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 4/3/2005; 700+ words
; ...lies in state in St Peter's Basilica in the Clementine Chapel, which was begun by Michelangelo and completed by Giacomo Della Porta for the Jubilee in 1600. After the death of John Paul I in 1978, an estimated 750,000 mourners filed past the...
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UNITED IN PRAYER . . . TOGETHER IN GRIEF WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 4/3/2005; 700+ words
; ...lies in state in St Peter's Basilica in the Clementine Chapel, which was begun by Michelangelo and completed by Giacomo Della Porta for the Jubilee in 1600. After the death of John Paul I in 1978, an estimated 750,000 mourners filed past the...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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DISCOVER THE BEAUTY OF RURAL ITALY THERE'S MUCH TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE BETWEEN THE BIG CITIES OF ROME AND FLORENCE.(EXPLORE)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 9/18/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...beneath. Villa d'Este has an almost inconceivable amount of beautiful fountains -- the designers Ligorio and Giacomo della Porta made excellent use of waterworks on the property. The Terrace of One Hundred Fountains is just one of the many...
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Heavenly stairway tops off Liverpool landmark
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Peter in the Vatican was laid in April 1506 by Pope Julius II. Work continued under Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Giacomo della Porta, Domenico Fontana and Michelangelo until its completion in 1650. ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, LONDON The present...
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Process to Mourn Pope, Elect Successor
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...in state in St. Peter's Basilica in the Clementine Chapel, which was begun by Michelangelo and completed by Giacomo Della Porta for the Jubilee in 1600. After the death of John Paul I in 1978, an estimated 750,000 mourners filed past the...
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Mourning period follows pope's death
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 4/3/2005; ; 280 words
; ...in state in St. Peter's Basilica in the Clementine Chapel, which was begun by Michelangelo and completed by Giacomo Della Porta for the Jubilee in 1600. After the death of John Paul I in 1978, an estimated 750,000 mourners filed past the...
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Corridors of silence. (Rome's former political powers)
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 12/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...power. First stop was usually the Christian Democrat Party headquarters in Piazza del Gesu, across the square from Giacomo della Porta's severe facade of the Jesuit church del Gesu, prototype of early Baroque churches all over Europe. Until 1992...
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Giacomo della Porta
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Giacomo della Porta The Italian architect Giacomo della Porta (ca. 1537-1602) was the leading...century. It was formerly thought that Giacomo della Porta was a Lombard, like many of the...
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della Porta, Giacomo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
della Porta, Giacomo (1533–1602). See porta .
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Porta, Giacomo della
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Porta, Giacomo della ( c. 1532–1602). After Vignola 's death (1573) this...Giovanni de' Fiorentini (1582–1602) and Sant'Andrea della Valle (1591—completed by Maderno , 1608–23...
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Giacomo da Vignola
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...influential textbooks ever published. The real name of Giacomo da Vignola was Giacomo Barozzi. He was born on Oct. 1, 1507, in...The facade of the Gesù was built by Giacomo della Porta after Vignola's death, but Vignola's design...
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Carlo Maderno
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Maderno started from the type established by Giacomo da Vignola's design for, and Giacomo della Porta's executed version of, the Church of the...s contribution lies in his reversal of Della Porta's alterations to Vignola's design. In...
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