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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...
Vasari included a short autobiography at the end of the Lives, and added further details about himself and his family in his lives of Lazzaro Vasari and Francesco Salviati. [8] According to the historian Richard Goldthwaite, [19] Vasari was one of the earliest authors to use the term "competition" (or "concorrenza" in Italian) in its economic ...
Cipriani S.A. traces its history to family patriarch Giuseppe Cipriani, (1900–1980) [1] who founded Harry's Bar in Venice in 1931. According to the company history, Harry Pickering, a young Bostonian, had been frequenting Hotel Europa in Venice, where Giuseppe Cipriani was a bartender. When Pickering explained that he was broke because his ...
1305 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, (310) 573-8077, rvr.la A new Long Beach restaurant from the team behind Heritage offers a la carte "neo-bistro" cuisine such as amberjack crudo with cucumber and ...
A 1568 edition of Vasari's Lives of the Artists states "In Florence by his [Giorgione's] hand in the house of Giovan Borgherini's sons [is] the portrait of the same Giovanni, when he was young in Venice, and in the same painting his tutor guiding him; one can see in both heads finer tints of shadow than in any other work". It was probably ...
Guy Fieri's Trattoria is the latest of 18 concepts and nearly 100 restaurants bearing the celebrity chef's name. They serve barbecue, sandwiches, tacos, chicken, burgers and other dishes, largely ...
Harry's Bar is today "the anchor to a global brand, positioned around the Cipriani name." In New York City, the Ciprianis run the restaurants Harry Cipriani, Cipriani 42nd Street, and DownTown, a travel company, and a catering company. Buenos Aires is home to three more outlets. In Venice, the Ciprianis also own Harry's Dolci.
Caffè Quadri (Italian pronunciation: [kafˌfɛ kˈkwaːdri]) is a coffeehouse located in the Procuratie Vecchie of Piazza San Marco, Venice. [1] It was established in 1775. The restaurant underwent a first important renovation in 1830, under the management of the Vaerini brothers, who expanded both the spaces and the activities, purchasing the ...