Letters From the Palazzo BarbaroSteerforth Press, 29 sty 2013 - 224 The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city – particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, home of the expatriate American Curtis family. This selection of letters covers the period 1869-1907 and provides a unique record of the life and work of this great writer. Includes historical photographs and a foreword by Leon Edel, Henry James’s biographer. |
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... Tiepolo, Gian Battista Piazzetta, Sebastiano Ricci and Antonio Balestra were among them. The perfect taste of the Barbaros chose thebest artists of each generation.2 Then, after all this glory ofculture, politics, and art,ruin descended ...
... Tiepolo, Gian Battista Piazzetta, Sebastiano Ricci and Antonio Balestra were among them. The perfect taste of the Barbaros chose thebest artists of each generation.2 Then, after all this glory ofculture, politics, and art,ruin descended ...
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... Tiepolo ceiling andwalls of ancient palegreen damask, slightly shredded and patched, which, on the warm mornings, looked into the shade of a court where a high outer staircase, strikingly bold, yet strikinglyrelaxed, held together one ...
... Tiepolo ceiling andwalls of ancient palegreen damask, slightly shredded and patched, which, on the warm mornings, looked into the shade of a court where a high outer staircase, strikingly bold, yet strikinglyrelaxed, held together one ...
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... Tiepolo ceilings, rococo chairs, whole family archives. Inthis worldof moral and materialdecadence, money—the enormous amount of money Juliana asksher guest asrentfora few, empty rooms—buys hospitality. In James's world, where so many ...
... Tiepolo ceilings, rococo chairs, whole family archives. Inthis worldof moral and materialdecadence, money—the enormous amount of money Juliana asksher guest asrentfora few, empty rooms—buys hospitality. In James's world, where so many ...
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... Tiepolo ceiling” the real thing. The other Tiepolos, the ovals in thegreat salon,The Offering toJuno Lucana, The BetrothalofAlexander and Roxana, The Death of Arsinoe, Tarquinius and Lucretia,were sold in1874 and are nowrespectively in ...
... Tiepolo ceiling” the real thing. The other Tiepolos, the ovals in thegreat salon,The Offering toJuno Lucana, The BetrothalofAlexander and Roxana, The Death of Arsinoe, Tarquinius and Lucretia,were sold in1874 and are nowrespectively in ...
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