pesaro, the venetian was admiral of the papal fleet.cessions from the doge's palace to the most prominent churches across the water each designed by andrea palladio as a classical temple transformed for christian celebration. palladio adopted the monumental simplicity of ancient roman buildings to make a new kind of christian church. and he created spaces of unprecedented clarity. a very different light actually suffuses the paintings that tintoretto created for the presbytery of palladio's church. it is not that clear light of a measured and harmonious universe. it's a much more turbulent light, a light that emerges from darkness. jacopo tintoretto created a symbolic drama with scenes from the old and new testaments. across the altar opposite the descent of manna from heaven, is his version of the last supper. tintoretto organized the perspective so the paintings were best seen from the altar steps by worshipers taking the bread and wine of the mass. christ is shown distributing the bread that will be his body in the mass. up above the

the venetian twins represents the more physical or situation comedy. it evolved from the commedia dell'arte tradition. in the commedia, there were no written scripts, only scenarios, and the actors improvised their dialogue and bits of stage business as they performed. in this connection, it might be appropriate for me to recall something that i actually witnessed on the broadway stage. the great zero mostel was starring in a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. and the night that i saw the performance, he decided to pick on a young man who was a member of the chorus and who was well-known in the company, as i later on found out, for breaking up, that is to say, being made to laugh easily on the stage. zero was incorrigible and he decided to make a victim of this young man that night. and during the scene, when the young man was playing a soldier in the army of miles gloriosus, zero stopped the action of the scene and went to work on him making faces and dancing around him and posturing and clowning till the poor young man was almost reduced t

this was the venetian republic's religious and political center, st. mark's square, or piazza san marco, with the basilica of st. mark and the doge's palace. the doge's palace -- the ruling center and residence of venice's duke -- was built to show off the power and wealth of the republic, and to remind visitors that venice was number one. its lacy exterior, a distinct blend of east and west, is venetian gothic. for four centuries, this was the most powerful piece of real estate in europe. the sprawling palace is a maze of richly decorated rooms. here in the doge's lavish apartment, a map illustrates the reach of the venetian maritime empire, which stretched across most of the eastern mediterranean. while it didn't have vast land holdings, venice was a mighty trading empire, built upon a network of ports and a mastery of the sea. the city was driven by an interest in dominating mediterranean trade. and, until the 16th century, when after explorers like vasco da gama and columbus opened up the world, leaving venice stuck in a geographic hole, venice did

after durer's second venetian journey he engraved some of his most intricate, complex plates. in night, death and the devil, the artist takes the equestrian statue he had seen in italy and rides it into a northern forest. here's the man of action the warrior, blind to the perils surrounding him-- death at his side, the devil and devastation in his wake. durer's radiant engraving of saint gerome is a hymn to the contemplative life showing his favorite saint in sacred study. subtlety of light and detailed depiction of the interior all recall van eyck's art. for his figure of brooding melancholy durer may have used a michelangelo sibyl as his model. melancholy is the dark side of genius. the discarded tools-- a plane and saw, instruments, and inkwell-- all convey the frustrated artist, his creativity blocked. albrecht durer was a northern genius who succeeded in assimilating the lessons of the south. the last and boldest statement of northern religious art can be found in the isenheim altarpiece-- the work of a german master. this massive altar in three stages is by the artist we

venetians love their boats. for piero, it's his escape.h of tourists in what he calls his "parallel venice." steves: when did you have a boat in the beginning? my first boat? yeah.

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"you venetians are wrong "to disturb the peace of italy "and not to rest content with your fine state"if you knew how everyone hates you, your hair would stand on end." in the 16th century, venice was a city of spectacle and rhetoric, of theater and illusion. it saw itself as an ideal city, as the modern culmination of the ancient city-state with its good life, its humane values, its sense of play, even. and it dramatized itself as an ideal city, both for its own inhabitants and for the world outside. this civic drama was acted out through processions, ceremonies, and spectacle, and through art and architecture, but this grand illusion, whose stage was the city itself, was founded in reality. by the 1500s, venice claimed 1,000 years of history as a free and independent republic.

he was venetian. he'd come to rome at 19. he climbed over the ruins.e excavated and recorded the past in over 1,000 views, not only the past, but the present of rome, too. copper was very expensive. he put his wife's dowry into an investment into these great plates, so he was very worried. he thought the french might go to athens. although he had french friends amongst these critics and architects in rome, he attacked them. he ridiculed greek architecture. but then, just before he died in 1778, he himself went south to pestum, and in 15 or 16 wonderful drawings, he conjured up the magic of greek architecture as never before. he showed that the column, that the french had thought of as a structural element which they wanted to express honestly, was really a piece of sculpture, a piece of beautiful sculpture. after that, with the discovery of pestum and greek architecture itself, the aesthetic vision of europe changed. so, as often in the history of western art, changes in ways of seeing coincide with and even anticipate social change. so it was in the b

villa as the venetian island on the market all appeared to try to keep its debt plagued economy afloat selling the country's jewel so to speak also night raids and extreme temperatures just a few of the methods used by the guards it's america's guantanamo bay prison to try to break up the ongoing detainee's hunger strike for that as well r.t. dot com. oil imports are surging in china making the biggest energy importer on the planet as you can see here beijing's increase its all purchases steadily in recent years finally than outpacing the u.s. last month the rapid growth of industry infrastructures created an insatiable demand for fuel. enough looks at the benefits and the implications of china's ambitions. yet again china is number one this time surpassing the united states as the world's biggest importer of oil what's more according to u.s. government findings china is expected to remain the top global gas guzzler well into the next year part of that reason is china's economy is growing as well as rising auto sales that has increased demand as a result of china's use more oil than it

you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the venetians marching or are those feral hippies? many of them made things interesting. >> when you ask what do you do? and you say we are staging the moon landing. wherever you are on the ideological spectrum, some things are constant, it seems. some stereotypical expectations. it's true, there are free tapas everywhere. flamenco, yes, they do that also. it's a civilized thing to do, i think. but in granada, they do it old school. and oh yeah, bullfighting. they do that here, too. but i digress. i'm here, actually, to answer a question. what happens if you go over to the other side? say you grew up in the states and like a lot of us, wondered, fantasized about what it would be like living abroad in old europe, surrounded by crusader castles, delicious food, another language, another culture. what would that alternate life, that road not taken be like? my longtime friend and cameraman from maine zack is finding out. so where are we going? >> right here, one of these tables. which maybe we want to do like t

sister and a bride, despite the many mishaps from so many people mistaking the identities of the venetian twins. this type of comedy, if it is to be successful, seeks to make us, the viewers, partners with the performer. the effectiveness of the partnership depends on our willingness to play along. carlo goldoni, writing in the 17th century, observed, "comedy was invented to correct vices and to hold folly up for ridicule." and when the comedy of the ancients did this the audience was pleased because each person saw in himself or in others the original of the character represented on the stage. this was a co-production of miami-dade community college and british broadcasting corporation british open university. [music] captioning performed by aegis rapidtext

cultural heritage up for sale this report on italy planning to put its historic castles villas even a venetian island on the market all in a bid to keep its debt plagued economy afloat. night raids extreme temperatures just a few with the methods that were used by guards at america's growing time of a prison break up the detainees six months hunger strike more by that too is a say for us this morning. while imports are surging in china making the biggest energy import on the planet as you can see beijing's increased its all purchase steadily in recent years finally outpacing the u.s. last month now the rapid growth of industry infrastructures created an insatiable demand for fuel. of the benefits and implications of china's ambush. yet again china is number one this time surpassing the united states as the world's biggest importer of oil what's more according to u.s. government findings china is expected to remain the top global gas guzzler well into the next year part of the reason is china's economy is growing as well as rising auto sales that has increased demand as a result china has used

off the family jewels on a grand scale italy planning to put many historic castles villas even a venetian island on sale in the mid to plug holes in the country's budget the full story. activists around the world had rallies as part of a global day of action against genetically modified foods for him biotech giant monsanto bearing the brunt of their anger some four hundred cities across the world from australia to the united states involved protesters say the crops grown from seeds made by the company could be dangerous to human health peter all over reports from berlin where hundreds turned out to put pressure on the g.m.o. food industry. well what we've seen is that demonstrates is all around the world not just here in germany coming out to say no to genetically modified foods people saying that they don't have the dangers that it could pose that they write for human consumption over two million people turned out on the streets across the globe in may of this year for a similar demonstration to find out why people are demonstrating against g.m. foods saying no to. talk to. thank us corr

the southbound trip to the venetian bridge. >> the time is 6:31 a.m..about the deaths of 13 year-old n andy lopez. friends and family members are planning a march today to remember him. kron4 will tran is live with more. >> order into the community this has turned into a crime scene. they want to make sure that the office knows about this. you can see this is continuing to grow. people are walking past and their art making sure that people understand. you can see there are signs and and people continued to be very upset with the shooting death. they believe this was unjustified and that this boy was just walking along with their replica guns when a sheriff's deputy came up and told him to drop the gun and then shot him. they believe it was not just a fight because it was a toy gun. this sheriff's deputies stated that it was missing the one step and there's no way they could have known that it was not real. the community is not buying it. >> the community has flyers all over the place just to let the community know that they have already had a protest an

you can almost look back through time and through the mists of history and see the venetians marching or are those feral hippies? many of them made things interesting. >> when you ask what do you do? and you say we are staging the moon landing. wherever you are on the ideological spectrum, some things are constant, it seems. some stereotypical expectations. it's true, there are free tapas everywhere. flamenco, yes, they do that also. it's a civilized thing to do, i think. but in granada, they do it old school. and oh yeah, bullfighting. they do that here, too. but i digress. i'm here, actually, to answer a question. what happens if you go over to the other side? say you grew up in the states and like a lot of us, wondered, fantasized about what it would be like living abroad in old europe, surrounded by crusader castles, delicious food, another language, another culture. what would that alternate life, that road not taken be like? my longtime friend and cameraman from maine zack is finding out. so where are we going? >> right here, one of these tables. which maybe we want to do like t

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