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The Crescat (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Salome with the head of John the Baptist.
Giovanni Battista
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The Pirate Bay Appeals Italian Blockade
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
... against the decree that forced Italian ISPs to block the BitTorrent tracker . Pirate Bay’s lawyers Giovanni Battista Gallus and Francesco Micozzi are convinced that they have a strong case. “The decree can be defined as ‘original’ or ‘creative’ at best” they told TorrentFreak. The Pirate Bay administrators are accused of making copyrighted material available on the Internet for commercial...
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Tiepolo Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Artist (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, marks the renovation and reopening of the Robert Lehman Wing with an exhibition of 60 drawings by Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.
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Who Does Berlusconi Think He Is?
A Spork in the Drawer (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
John Ashcroft? Over the table at which Berlusconi holds press conferences in Palazzo Chigi, Italy's equivalent of No 10 Downing Street, hangs a huge copy of a painting by the 18th-century Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. It was selected by...
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Bashful Berlusconi Covers Up
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Aside from fending off accusations of crypto-fascism, Italy's current Prime Minister must now defend himself against claims that he ordered the censoring of an all-too-anatomically-correct painting of 18th-century Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo hanging in his office....
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Truth, Lies and Berlusconi: Italy's playboy premier accused of nudity cover-up
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's painting is retouched by aides to conceal nipple
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Berlusconi accused of nudity cover-up
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's painting is retouched by aides to conceal nipple
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Art historians outraged over Berlusconi decision over painting
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... the truth.The truth, in this case, refers to an 18th century allegorical figure in a painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo that serves as a backdrop for government press conferences in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's official residence.It was retouched in recent weeks to cover an exposed breast, which "might have upset the sensitivity of some viewers," Paolo Boniauti, the prime...
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The bald tit, and Silvio Berlusconi
The First Post (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, no stranger at getting into scrapes with both women and the truth, has now been propelled into a cover-up involving both. In a move…
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Berlusconi makes a boob in attempt to cover up Truth
The First Post (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, no stranger at getting into scrapes with both women and the truth, has now been propelled into a cover-up involving both. In a move…
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Spa spy: Rome Cavalieri Hilton
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
... 1,100-piece strong art collection on the way to my room. Recent acquisitions include three of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s gorgeous rococo paintings. Sun trap: the Rome Cavalieri Hilton is popular with guests and localsMy room was on the executive floor and the benefits included amazing views of the eternal city; access to the cool, relaxing executive lounge, where ice-cold water,...
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Love at National Gallery
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Today the National Gallery in London opened a touring exhibition which has already been seen in Bristol and Newcastle upon Tyne. It's simply called Love . You'll find it in the Sunley Room until 5 October, admission free. It looks something of a cobbled-together mess. What has Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's The Banquet of Cleopatra (1740s) got to do with love? And why include modern rubbish...
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Saint James, Apostle & Martyr
Magic Statistics (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
... Christ our Lord. Amen . For the Epistle: Acts 11:27-12:3a The Gospel: St Matthew 20:20-28 Artwork: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, St James the Greater Conquering the Moors , 1749. Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The painting shows St James as the slayer of Moors (Santiago Matamoros) and a defender of Christianity in Spain. The saint is said to have appeared on a white horse...
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MOZART: Idomeneo — Munich 2008
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco after Idomenée by Antoine Danchet.First performance: 29 January 1781 at the Hoftheater, MunichRevised version, 13 March 1786 at the palace of Prince Johan Adam Auersperg, ViennaPrincipal Characters:Idomeneo, King of CreteTenorIdamante, his sonSoprano or TenorIlia, Trojan princess, daughter of Priam, King...
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Sex, Cosmo, K-Lo and the Pope
Sadly, No! (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
... with your naughty bits to your parish priest during a very lengthy confession.) Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops in Rome, said recently that “the encyclical is not simply a ‘no’ to contraception but also a defense of the dignity of woman against whatever might degrade her greatness as a person, wife and mother, reducing her to an object of pleasure.”...
