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The Venetian

Venetian Theatre, colloquially known as The Venetian, a theater in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA


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These include the NBC Experience globe in New York City, the historic El Capitan Theatre and Wax Museum marquees in Hollywood, the Reno Arch and numerous icons in Las Vegas, such as Vegas Vic, the Fremont Street Experience, the Astrolabe in The Venetian the Wynn Las Vegas resort sign and recently the Aria Resort & Casino Las Vegas and Harmon Retail Corner.


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Agostino Barbarigo

The latter was soon followed by Modone and Corone, which meant the loss of all the main intermediate stops for the Venetian ships sailing towards the Levante.

Ambouli

Canbala appears in Muhammad al-Idrisi's map of 1192 on the coast of the Horn of Africa, southeast of the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, and with Cambaleh, a town where the Venetian traveller Bragadino, a thirteenth-century European visitor to Ethiopia, resided for eight years.

Barbarigo family

The family remained part of the Venetian patricians after the Serrata del Maggior Consiglio in 1297.

Biagio Assereto

At Casalmaggiore he defeated the Venetian admiral Andrea Quirini (July 1448).

Ca' da Mosto

The palace takes its name from the Venetian explorer Alvise da Ca' da Mosto, who was born in the palace in 1432.

According to an interview in The Lady, the palace is admired by Francesco da Mosto, a descendant of its eponymous former owners, and is the Venetian building he would most like to see restored.

Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo

One reason was that both sexes from the nobility mixed freely at the casinos, which represented a development the Inquisition wished to stop: women of the Venetian nobility had formerly seldom been allowed to mix with men, but during the 18th century, this underwent a sharp contrast, a development which started when Chiara, Maddalena and Laura Contarini, daughters of doge Domenico II Contarini, had stopped using the zoccoli.

Dentil

In the porch of the Studion cathedral at Constantinople, the dentil and the interval between are equal in width, and the interval is splayed back from top to bottom; this is the form it takes in what is known as the Venetian dentil, which was copied from the Byzantine dentil in Santa Sophia, Constantinople.

Dragović monastery

The Venetian government secured them a resting place in the village of Bribir with good lands for a new monastery, where they built a small church.

Eraclea

Eraclea Mare, one of the destinations of summer tourism on the Adriatic riviera, is together with Jesolo and Caorle one of the best known seaside resorts on the Venetian coast.

Françoise Marie de Bourbon

At present, in the Royal Collection owned by the British Royal Family, there exists a miniature portrait by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera of Françoise Marie.

Friulian Revolt of 1511

The Venetian government established a special tribunal that condemned to death the main exponents of the revolt, yet without blaming the real author, Antonio Savorgnan who, given the overall negative outcome, decides paradoxically to find shelter among the imperialists' ranks which he had so long opposed to, in Villaco, on an Austrian territory.

Gentile Bellini

In September 1479 Gentile was sent by the Venetian Senate to the new Ottoman capital Constantinople as part of the peace settlement between Venice and the Turks.

Gerolamo Bortotti

Among his portrait work are a bust of Giuseppe Verdi at the Giardini, the portrait of Jacopo Castelli on the headstones to the Venetian patriots at Bocca di Piazza, and the bust of Pope Pius X (1907) placed on the landing of the Scalone at the Scuola di San Rocco.

Giorgio Baffo

He was, together with Ruzante, Carlo Goldoni and Berto Barbarani one of the major writers in the Venetian language.

Giovanni Croce

Denis Arnold, Giovanni Gabrieli and the Music of the Venetian High Renaissance. London, Oxford University Press, 1979.

Girolamo Mercuriale

He returned home in the following years; in 1575, the Venetian Senate awarded him a six-year contract as a professor at the University of Padua.

Giuseppe Toaldo

His treatise "Della maniera di difendere gli edificii dal fulmine" (1772) and his pamphlet "Dei conduttori metallici a preservazione degli edifici dal fulmine" (1774) contributed largely to remove the popular prejudices of the time against the use of the "Franklinian rod"; and through his exertions lightning-conductors were placed on Siena Cathedral, on the tower of St. Mark's, Venice, on powder magazines, and ships of the Venetian navy.

Great Council of Venice

Participation in the Great Council was established on hereditary right, exclusive to the patrician families enrolled in the Golden Book of the Venetian nobility.

Hacı Ahmet

It was kept until the late 18th century in the archives of the Venetian Council of Ten.

Il Ballo del Doge

The ball's name derives from the title of the elected heads (Doge, Duke in English) who ruled Venice up until the fall of the Venetian republic in the 18th Century.

It Bag

One of the first designers credited with creating the concept of the easily identifiable "status bag" was Giuliana Camerino, founder in 1945 of the Venetian fashion house Roberta di Camerino.

John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

He employed the Venetian architect Girolamo Sartorio as his master builder in 1667, who designed many buildings in the town including the Neustädter Kirche and was instrumental in the expansion of the Herrenhausen Gardens.

Károly Lotz

He began his artistic career as a pupil of the Hofkapellmeister Destouches, then in the academy of the Venetian master Jacopo Marastoni (1804-1860).

Later he started on his own original works, first as a romantic landscape artist in scenes of the Alföld (the Hungarian lowland plain), and then as a creator of monumental murals and frescos in the style of the Venetian master Tiepolo.

Kemal Reis

With the Battle of Modon, the Ottoman fleet and army quickly overwhelmed most of the Venetian possessions in Greece.

La Venexiana

La Venexiana, taking its name from an anonymous comedy La Venexiana (play) ("The Venetian Girl" c.1537) was created to focus on the core 4 and 5 voice madrigal repertory of Sigismondo d'India, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Luca Marenzio, Barbara Strozzi, Gesualdo da Venosa and Claudio Monteverdi.

Lorenzo Tiepolo

In 1270, an important treaty of peace was signed with Genoa at Cremona, confirming the Venetian predominance in the Adriatic Sea; however, in that same year a war broke out between Venice and a league of Italian cities including Bologna, Treviso, Verona, Mantua, Ferrara, Cremona, Recanati, and Ancona due to commercial disputes.

Loures, Heraklion

The settlement appears in the Venetian censuses of the 16th century under the name Lures; 109 inhabitants are recorded in Piero Castrofilaca's 1583 census.

MOSE Project

The project is an integrated system consisting of rows of mobile gates installed at the Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia inlets that are able to temporarily isolate the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea during high tides.

Niardo

In 1797 the Venetian Republic fell with the arrival of Napoleon's Campaign In Italy, the Principality of Niardo was incorporated in French Empire.

Palma Vecchio

Palma il Vecchio (c. 1480 – July 1528), born Jacopo Palma or known as Jacopo Negretti, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school born at Serina Alta near Bergamo.

Paulus Manutius

His eldest son, the younger Aldus, succeeded him in the management of the Venetian printing house when his father settled at Rome in 1561.

Pope Clement IX

At the end of October 1669 Clement IX fell ill after receiving news that the Venetian fortress of Candia in Crete had surrendered to the Turks.

Pteleos

Current archaeological sites include the Venetian Castle close to Pigadi, several tombs from the Mycaenian period between Pteleos and Aghioi Theodoroi and several small churches, the oldest of which was built in the 13th century.

Santa Maria della Salute

The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venetian skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, Francesco Guardi, and Laza Kostić.

The Venetian Affair

The Venetian Affair, 1963 espionage novel by Scottish-American author of spy thrillers, Helen MacInnes; plot concerns burned-out former CIA agent enmeshed in Cold War mind control and newly invented scientific device sought by geopolitical adversaries

The Venetian Twins

The Venetian Twins (Italian - I due gemelli veneziani, or "The two Venetian twins") is a 1747 play by Carlo Goldoni, based on Plautus's Menaechmi.

Triadan Gritti

Ottoman forces attempted to block the Venetian fleet in Bojana by clogging the mouth of Bojana with a cut tree trunks, just like Serbian voivode Mazarek did during Second Scutari War.

Venetian regional election, 2010

The Venetian PdL is afraid that Liga Veneta, headed by Zaia, will dominate regional politics for many years to come, similarly to what the South Tyrolean People's Party has done in South Tyrol.

Venetian–Genoese Wars

A Genoese armada of 62 ships under the command of Paganino Doria sailed into the Aegean not long after the loss of Galata and besieged the Venetian fortress of Oreos on the north of Euboea, where Pisani was staying.

Venice Conference

The Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community met at the Cini Foundation on the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore to discuss the Spaak Report of the Spaak Committee.

Vivarini

The earliest known date of a picture of his, an altarpiece in the Venetian academy, is 1440; the latest, in the Lateran museum, 1464, but he appears to have been alive in 1470.

Walls of Padua

Designed by the architect Giovanni Maria Falconetto, this gate was built with a frieze showing the Lion of Saint Mark, symbol of the Venetian Republic, which still survives.

Designed by the architect Giovanni Maria Falconetto, this gate originally had a frieze showing the Lion of Saint Mark, symbol of the Venetian Republic (the frieze here was destroyed during the Napoleonic Wars).

Westbourne Grove

Amongst the well-known residents of this house were Sir William Yorke, baronet; the Venetian ambassador; the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell (a great great nephew of the diarist Samuel Pepys); and the General Commander in Chief of the Army, Viscount Hill, who left in 1836 (and who gave his name to the modern road bridge north of Westbourne Grove called Lord Hill's Bridge).

Zingaro

Lo Zingaro (The Gypsy), a pseudonym of Antonio Solario (active perhaps 1502–1518), an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who worked in Naples, the Marche and possibly England