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Venice
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Venice. The see of Venice goes back to the bishopric founded in 774 on the isle of Olivolo, later known as Castello. Owing to disputes between the see of Olivolo and the patriarchate of Grado, to which it belonged, both were suppressed in 1451 and replaced by the patriarchate of Venice.
The most famous church is San Marco, originally the chapel of the Doges. Destined to receive the relics of St
Mark, it was completed in 883. Burnt down in 976, it was rebuilt (1063–71) on the model of the Basilica of the Apostles at Constantinople. Its plan forms a Greek cross of equal arms, the centre and each arm being surmounted by a dome. It became the cathedral of the patriarchate in 1807.
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Venice is drowning: will one of the world's most beautiful cities disappear beneath the waves? (Special Report).
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 11/29/2002; 700+ words
; THERE'S REALLY NO PLACE like Venice, the floating city on Italy's northeast coast, off the Adriatic Sea. In Venice, the streets are canals and the buses...tourists from around the world come to Venice each year to ride along its canals...
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Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; John Eglin. Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797. New York: Palgrave...English Revolution (1965), even Puritans had praise for Venice in the first half of the seventeenth century. The strange...
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For Venice fest, MIFED not in competition.
Magazine article from: Video Age International; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...really is nothing I don't like about the Venice Film Festival," insisted Mike Ryan...de Hadeln, former director of the Venice Fest] into the lagoon!" He continued, "I like the style of Venice, it has the unmistakable feel of La...
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Venice on Foot. (Book Reviews).(Venice, Scenes - Interaction with Architectural Space: the Campi of Venice)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review; 3/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...with Architectural Space: the Campi of Venice, by Alban Janson and Thorsten Burklin...272 pp., ill. Price: 65.00 Euro. Venice is known as a city of canals. When one...restaurants frequented by the inhabitants of Venice are to be found on the lanes connecting...
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 "The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario)")
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Venice, T.O. fest of friends; Those who run the competing film festivals will tell you they're not really rivals. It's true that TIFF is still a colossus, but Venice got at least one thing we didn't this year George Clooney.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 9/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Peter Howell The film fests in Venice, Italy and Toronto do more than just...rivals who act like best friends. The Venice Film Festival (Aug. 27-Sept. 6...that a role reversal may be happening. Venice is starting to act like an up-and...
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 "Daily News Egypt (Egypt)")
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Venice film festival retains allure without deals.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 9/2/2009; 700+ words
; ...there is one criteria for selection to the Venice Film Festival, it's a film's ability...raised the curtain yesterday on the 66th Venice Film Festival, his sixth as director...Capitalism: A Love Story," his first Venice entry after winning the top prize twice...
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Venice Exhibit Traces the Migration of Culture
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/6/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...MONTAGNE NPR Morning Edition 08-06-2007 Venice Exhibit Traces the Migration of Culture...MONTAGNE, host: The Italian city of Venice was once a maritime empire. For a thousand...with the Islamic world. A new exhibit in Venice illustrates the mutual influence on ideas...
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 "Banbridge Leader (Banbridge, Northern Ireland)")
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VENICE - WATER AMAZING CITY.
Newspaper article from: Banbridge Leader (Banbridge, Northern Ireland); 10/16/2007; 700+ words
; VENICE is somewhere everyone should visit at least...this enchanting city. During the summer Venice is jam-packed with tourists, making strolling...are impossible. At this time of the year Venice becomes one of the most romantic places...
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Venice is the only city on earth going backwards
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 2/9/2008; ; 700+ words
; The peril in Venice is the people trying to save it. But save exactly what for precisely whom? Venice is a corpse. It died in 1797 with the last...said there was nothing new to say about Venice. I'm not so sure. They say Venice defeats...
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Venice wonderland
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 4/18/2008; 700+ words
; ...If I had ever been told that my first visit to Venice would be in the company of a strange man, I would have laughed aloud. After all isn't Venice, quaint, watery Venice, a city where lovers go? Its winding canals and...
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Venice
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
VENICE VENICE. One of the first cities in Italy to engage in international commerce after the devastations of the early Middle Ages, Venice established a maritime empire by 1300 and a territorial empire from the...
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Paul of Venice
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
PAUL OF VENICE ( b. Udine, Italy, ca. 1370; d...Christened Paolo Nicoletti da Udine, Paul of Venice was a highly respected scholar and leader...training at the monastery of St. Stephen in Venice. In 1390 the Augustinian order sent him...
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Venice, Architecture in
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
VENICE, ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE, ARCHITECTURE IN. According to Giorgio Vasari, the first historiographer of Italian Renaissance art, the modern era penetrated into Venice only with the arrival of the Florentine Jacopo Sansovino in the 1520s...
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Venice, Art in
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
VENICE, ART IN VENICE, ART IN. In about 1500 Venetian art bore an intimate relationship...economic and political context. The traditional society of the Republic of Venice remained tied to the past, its conservative ideology reflected in well...
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Stones of Venice, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Stones of Venice, The, by Ruskin , an architectural study...criticism of the romantic, Byronic vision of Venice that blinds the traveller to present misery...remnants of the past Ruskin creates a myth of Venice, where power is decommercialized and...
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