Those masks, those powdered wigs, those feathers? Venetian, Caribbean, Aztec?

By the early 17th century moreover, Venetian power had declined considerably.

It is geographically and linguistically included in the Northern Italian group (with Lombard, Emiliano Romagnolo, Ligurian, and Venetian).

The windows were closed and the sunshine coming in through the Venetian blinds showed up the dust in the air.

The Peace of Lodi, concluded in 1454, brought forty years of comparative peace to Northern Italy, as Venetian conflicts focussed elsewhere.

All this takes place in the great hall with its garden beyond, of the palace of Duke Alvise, a Venetian nobleman.

In music history, the Venetian School was the body and work of composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610.

There are small Roman Catholic communities on some of the Cyclades and the Ionian Islands, remnants of the long Venetian rule over the islands.

The last of the Da Polenta, Ostasio III, was ousted by the Republic of Venice in 1440, and the city was annexed to the Venetian territories.

After the latter was put to death at Venice (1432), Colleoni passed to direct service of the Venetian Republic, entering on the major phase of his career.

The Venetian polychoral compositions of the late sixteenth century were among the most famous musical events in Europe, and their influence on musical practice in other countries was enormous.

Renaissance and modern era After a short conquest by the Malatesta in 1407, in 1428 it fell under the control of the Venetian Republic, remaining part of it until 1797.

He was widely considered by his contemporaries as one of the most daring military leaders in Italy and commanded the Venetian forces in the 1465 campaign against the Ottoman Empire.

The restoration of the 14th century Venetian castle in the mixed buffer zone village of Pyla, which was facilitated by UNFICYP and funded by the EU, was completed in December 2004.

The resources requested relate to the regular replacement and repair programme of carpets, drapes and venetian blinds in various locations throughout the Headquarters complex and the reupholstering of conference room furniture

For instance, the chronicler John the Deacon (d. 1009) says that in 912, a Venetian traveller who had just passed through Bulgaria and Croatia on his way home, next found himself in Zahumlje.

Due to the Venetian law stating that the day ends at sunset, the exact date of Marco Polo's death cannot be determined, but it was between the sunsets of January 8 and 9, 1324.

In addition to the indigenous languages, other minority languages are spoken by immigrant populations, such as the 80,000 German speaking Mennonites in Mexico, and 5,000 the Chipilo dialect of the Venetian language spoken in Chipilo, Puebla.

The linguistic experts consulted by the Raggs concluded that the Vienna manuscript was most likely the work of an older Venetian scribe, copying a Tuscan original, and writing in the second half of the 16th century.

Venetian rule lasted for one and a half centuries and determined the institutional structure of the future republic, with the emergence of the Senate in 1252 and the approval of the Ragusa Statute on 9 May 1272.

Many of the composers had a direct connection to the Vatican and the papal chapel, though they worked at several churches stylistically they are often contrasted with the Venetian School of composers, a concurrent movement which was much more progressive.

In 1428 Peter visited his dukedom of Treviso and nearby Venice, where he was presented with a copy of the book of Marco Polo by the doge he later offered that book, and maps of the Venetian trade routes in the Orient he purchased, to his younger brother Henry.

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