Paduan
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Paduans
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He never completed his great study of the Paduan bronze sculptor Andrea Riccio, but his pioneering articles served as the basis for a major Riccio retrospective exhibition at the Frick Collection in 2008.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2011
Two of the tales are recounted in dialect, one in Bergamasco and another in Paduan.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
Son of a painter, Crivelli studied under the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione, who also taught Andrea Mantegna.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has ranged from comic ditties and Broadway torch ballads to songs in the rich, tuneful manner of Italian light opera, to match the Paduan setting of The Shrew.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the second half of the 1590s, his personal commitments had increased when he established a stable relationship with Marina Gamba, a local Paduan woman from a lower social class.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Renaissance chronicler Giorgio Vasari tells us in "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" that the sculptor was annoyed by all the roses adoring Paduans threw his way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2015
The modern Paduans, from what I saw of them, fast quite as oft and as long as Antony's mule; whether they are equally punctual at mass I do not know.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
It covers—so the Paduans believe—the bones of Livy, who is claimed as a native of Padua.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
We all are Paduans, and we all intend To passe forthwith with speed to Padua.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Whether this be true or not, it is certain that the conduct of the Venetians in some manner roused the Paduans to insult, and that the hot youths came to blows.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
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