Example sentences for: visconti

How can you use “visconti” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nostalgics take tea in the Grand Hôtel des Bains to recall the decadent 1900s, evoked there by Thomas Mann’s novella (and Luchino Visconti’s movie) Death in Venice.

  • Teams of Italian, French, Flemish, and German architects and sculptors contributed to this astonishing cathedral, begun in 1386 by the ruling Visconti family.

  • The massive brick fortress, the Castello Sforzesco, northwest of the city center, was originally built by the Visconti and later rebuilt in its present form in the 15th century by Duke Francesco Sforza.

  • Built by the powerful Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, as his family’s burial chapel, the Carthusian monastery’s 15th-­century church is a high point in the transition from Flamboyant Gothic to Renaissance.

  • In the purely visual sphere, style has been a national preoccupation from the Renaissance masters such as Michelangelo and Leo­nardo da Vinci to the grandiose cinematographic fantasies of Fellini and Visconti in the modern era.


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