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Dominique's was a fine-dining French restaurant on the 1900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW [1] in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Dominique D’Ermo owned the restaurant until he sold it in 1987 to Herb Ezrin. The restaurant's clientele included such notables as Warren Beatty, Ronald Reagan, Robert Redford, Ted Koppel and ...
As Washington, D.C., prepares for the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, several restaurants in the nation's capital are commemorating the occasion with special menus and experiences.
Giovanni di Paolo was an important patron of the arts, matched only by Cosimo de' Medici in fifteenth-century Florence. [4]: 105 He commissioned the building of the Palazzo Rucellai, designed by Leon Battista Alberti, and of the Loggia Rucellai. [1]
The stars are not permanent and restaurants are constantly re-evaluated. If the criteria are not met, the restaurant will lose its stars. [1] The Washington, D.C. guide started in 2017, and is the first US Michelin Guide released in a new region since the Chicago guide in 2011. [9]
The Arte della Lana exercised its patronage over the Opera del Duomo, entrusted to it directly by the Signoria in 1331. The patron saint chosen by the guild was Santo Stefano. The guild commissioned a statue of the saint from Lorenzo Ghiberti (1427–1428) placed in the tabernacle on the facade of Orsanmichele (today a copy).
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Young Woman (1470–1472), Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. Facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456) Michelangelo, Doni Tondo (1503–1504). The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th.
Filomena Ristorante is an Italian-American restaurant located in the historic neighborhood of Georgetown in Washington, D.C. It opened along Washington's C&O Canal in 1983. Fresh pasta is made by Filomena's ‘Pasta Mamas’ in the storefront kitchen. They greet patrons as they enter the restaurant.
Giovanni Rucellai was born on 20 October 1475 in Florence, the fourth son of Bernardo Rucellai and Nannina de' Medici, sister of Lorenzo the Magnificent.He was proficient in Latin, Greek and philosophy; it is not known where or with whom he studied, except that he was a pupil of the philosopher Francesco Cattani da Diacceto.