Conversazione

And on Thursday, an anonymous European collector paid Sotheby's in New York $16.8 million for Titian's "A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria," a record for the Renaissance master at auction.

Jump in Art Sales at Christie's Points to Market Rebound Kelly Crow 2011

The evenings described by Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier took place in the Sala della Conversazione (fig. 6.26), located behind the two large windows at left, on the piano nobile.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

[The following speech was delivered at a Conversazione, in aid of the funds of the Birmingham Polytechnic Institution, at which Mr Dickens presided.]

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

The snobbishness of Conversazione Snobs is very soon disposed of: as soon as that cup of washy bohea is handed to you in the tea-room; or the muddy remnant of ice that you grasp in the suffocating scuffle of the assembly upstairs.

The Book of Snobs 2006

Another variation is the Holy Conversation Sacra Conversazione, in which several saints may be talking, reading, or focusing directly on the Christ Child.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

Another variation is the Holy Conversation Sacra Conversazione, in which several saints may be talking, reading, or focusing directly on the Christ Child.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

American creams to be made for to-night's Tchekoff Conversazione.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 Various

I went on to say that though I could not promise a Prime Minister once a week, I would undertake to get one of his colleagues or else some distinguished general or admiral whose conversation about the war would be worth hearing, to ornament my Conversazione.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

"Deposition" (Turin, 1515), the "Sacra Conversazione" of Parma, above all in that of London (about 1516), does Francia display the full measure of his genius.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

The first thing that caught the eye after the flurry of greetings was the impudent blue and red of Uncle Ezra's "Sancta Conversazione," Domenico

Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Robert Herrick 1903