Example sentences for: visconti

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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 right transept is the Visconti tomb, and a door leading to the lovely small cloister of russet terracotta, with a fine view of the church’s galleried octagonal tower.


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