Military Service Act
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Military Service Act (Canada) Passed on 29 August 1917, it introduced military conscription overseas as voluntary recruitment proved insufficient to supply the Canadian forces in World War I with enough troops. The actual effect of the Act was limited, as less than 25,000 conscripts actually arrived in Europe. However, it deeply split Canadian society between English-speakers broadly supportive of the measure, and French-speakers fundamentally opposed to the idea of being compelled to die for the
British Empire. It split both political parties, but proved infinitely more harmful to the Conservative Party (
Progressive Conservative Party). Their leaders
Borden and
Meighen were responsible for drafting the Act, and they were subsequently unable to form a government sustained by a stable majority.
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ARTS REVIEW: Moroni exhibit a delight
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/24/2000; ; 577 words
; ...highly influential Italian Renaissance portraitist Giovanni Battista Moroni - a painter whose bold illustrations are currently...creations, the small, intense showcase titled "Giovanni Battista Moroni: Renaissance Portraitist" is just enough to...
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Games: Details Competition
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 7/11/2004; ; 327 words
; Detail 695 came from Giovanni Battista Moroni's Portrait of a Man, traditionally...ladies and gents immortalised in Moroni's very direct portraits have now...dark cloth, of the kind worn by Moroni's rich male sitters, marked up...
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DETAILS COMPETITION
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/22/2001; 382 words
; ...uk/indy Details 543 came from Giovanni Battista Moroni's Portrait of Gian Lodovico Madruzzo (1551-52). In Moroni's tall upright portraits you...clothes and accessories. But in Moroni's portraits the place tends...
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Australian art lovers ecstatic over Italian masterpieces exhibition
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/28/2002; ; 674 words
; ...have been rediscovered in recent years such as Giovanni Battista Moroni. Anderson said Moroni's portrait of the nobleman Gian Gerolamo Grumelli...centuries in the private collection of the Counts of Moroni, before coming to Australia. It is one of...
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New Italian Art Exhibition Opens
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/28/2002; ; 587 words
; ...have been rediscovered in recent years, such as Giovanni Battista Moroni. She said Moroni's portrait of the nobleman Gian Gerolamo Grumelli...centuries in the private collection of the Counts of Moroni, before coming to Australia. It is one of the...
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Hittin' the museum road
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 2/25/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Across the way in Fort Worth, Giovanni Battista Moroni: Renaissance Portraitist will...collection brings together some of Moroni's finest and most innovative...well as the collection of Count Moroni in Bergamo and a private collection...
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Exhibit Features Masterpieces, New Art
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/28/2002; ; 589 words
; ...have been rediscovered in recent years, such as Giovanni Battista Moroni. She said Moroni's portrait of the nobleman Gian Gerolamo Grumelli...centuries in the private collection of the Counts of Moroni, before coming to Australia. It is one of the...
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REALIST PAINTERS OF LOMBARDY EXHIBITED
News Wire article from: United Press International; 8/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...focuses on such exemplars of the Lombard school as Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Lorenzo Lotto, Moretto da Brescia, Annibale Carracci, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Giovanni Romanino and the...
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Study of a study, and its occupant.(The Home Forum)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 7/2/2001; 592 words
; ...sophisticated small sculptures cast in bronze. The subject of Moroni's portrait is a leading literary figure in 16th...painted from life. An inscription translates: "Giovanni Battista Moroni painted him whom he did not see." A further inscription...
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U.S. Christmas Stamps Mark 25th Year
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/2/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...traditional stamp features a 16th-century painting by Giovanni Battista Moroni, "A Gentleman in Adoration Before the Madonna...child and carries the lettering "Christmas" and "Moroni, National Gallery." First-day ceremonies for...
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Giovanni Battista Moroni
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giovanni Battista Moroni , c.1525-1578, Italian portrait painter of the Brescian school...his teacher in the ability to capture the expression of the model, Moroni excelled in portraying with tasteful intimacy the aristocratic men...
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Moroni, Giovanni Battista
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Moroni, Giovanni Battista ( b Albino, c. 1520/4; d Albino, ?(5 Feb.) 1578). Italian painter. He trained under Moretto in Brescia and worked...
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Il Moretto
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and National Gallery, London. His most famous pupil was Giovanni Battista Moroni. Bibliography: See B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (1932, repr. 1968).
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