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Golden Jubilee: Beacons circle the world to mark the 50 years COMMONWEALTH
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BRITISH SOLDIERS yesterday honoured the golden jubilee by lighting
a beacon on the spot on Mount Kenya where Princess Elizabeth learned
she had become Queen. The beacon, near the Treetops safari camp, was
a link in a chain of 2,000 burning through all 54 Commonwealth
countries.
Other sites included Victoria Falls on the borders of Zambia and
Zimbabwe and Mpopoti Peak in Malawi, where a giant bonfire burned.
Celebrations were held at Goose Bay airbase in Canada, where 8,000
people witnessed an RAF flypast.
Another bonfire was lit on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and a
chain of 12 beacons ...
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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Florence of a number of talented sculptors such as Andrea Sansovino, Pietro Torrigiano, Benvenuto Cellini, and Lorenzetto...Younger's Adoring Angel (cat. no. 9), and Jacopo Sansovino's St. Paul (cat. no. 44). Franklin's and...
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Andrea del Sarto's monsters: the Madonna of the Harpies and human-animal hybrids in the renaissance.(artists)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...figures to depict the idea. Andrea del Sarto's Madonna and Child...altarpiece was commissioned from Andrea del Sarto for the high altar...we may presume these to be Andrea's idea. On the upper section...In his biography of Jacopo Sansovino, Vasari described a terracotta...
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Palladio's Vicenza: Charles Hind looks at the work of one of the most influential architects in the world, in his home city of Vicenza, northern Italy.(ANOTHER COUNTRY)(Andrea Palladio )
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...known as a sculptor. In 1524, Andrea was apprenticed to one of the...architect. Trissino changed Andrea's life; he gave him the...Romano from Mantua, Jacopo Sansovino from Venice and Michele Sanmichele...Lurking in the wings was Andrea Palladio, who was quietly...
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Form in poetry: Bruce Boucher on Andrea Palladio.
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ANDREA PALLADIO IS THE MOST famous architect the...architectural drawings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Sansovino, and others, the show will evoke the...raise their collective status. The young Andrea's talents were spotted by a wealthy amateur...
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Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects and Builders, c. 1430-1500.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...promulgated by the sixteenth-century Doge Andrea Gritti and expressed first by Jacopo Sansovino and then Andrea Palladio, began in spirit and in stone...coincidental. The subsequent addition of Andrea Gritti in the same format on the Piazzetta...
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Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time.
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...composite for the Loggia del Capitaniato opposite Symbolising the Venetian domination of Vicenza, the Loggia therefore reflected Sansovino's Loggetta in Venice, seat of the Venetian nobles. Perhaps the most inspiring feature of the book is the stunning photography...
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How Venice was built: Andrew Hopkins welcomes a thoughtful, well illustrated account of the complex way buildings came into being in 15th-century Venice.(Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects, and Builders c. 1430-1500 )(Book review)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...collaboration with the Venetian patrician Andrea Loredan: with its insistent and precocious...full fruit after 1527 when Jacopo Sansovino arrived in the metropolis and began rebuilding Piazza San Marco for doge Andrea Gritti. The inchoate, tantalising...
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Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...along with the architecture Andrea Palladio designed for that...Deborah Howard's Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage...classical buildings of Jacopo Sansovino. (Strangely, a very useful...Trained in Verona by a pupil of Sansovino, the fluid and sinuous style...
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La "Republica de'Viniziani': Ricerche sul repubblicanesimo veneziano in eta moderna.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Gasparo Contarini, Francesco Sansovino, and Paolo Paruta. Silvano...The first is the dogeship of Andrea Gritti (1523-38) which...The writings of Paruta and Sansovino appear as defenses of governmental...Machiavellism, in them and in Sansovino and Paruta as well, and indeed...
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ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN, MUSEUM CURATOR BOUCHER APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ART MUSEUM
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...century Italian architect Andrea Palladio, whose work has had...numerous books, among them "Andrea Palladio: The Architect in...sculpture of the architect Jacopo Sansovino. Boucher serves on numerous...The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino." He also was a guest scholar...
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