Paduan
Americanadjective
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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
Withal he is of noble and ancient Venetian lineage, though he was born a Paduan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paduan whom he calls "the greatest plunderer of them all."
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
They welcome Guariento and Gentile da Fabriano, they set themselves to learn from Veronese or Florentine, the Paduans contribute their chiselled drawing, their learned perspective, their archeological curiosity.
From The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps
They demanded that the Paduans should, like the patriarch, repeat the tribute annually; but the prudent Doge Ziani judged the single humiliation sufficient, and refused to establish a yearly celebration of the feast.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
Alaric the Goth, Attila, Ezzelin, all fought with the rebellious Paduans on those gray stones.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
So the Paduans have to defend their town and castles against inundation, "Ere the genial warmth be felt, On Chiarentana's top."
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
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