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	Antonio Talbot - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Antonio Talbot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Antonio Talbot - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Antonio Talbot.
		Antonio Talbot (May 29 1900 - September 25 1980) served as interim leader of the Union Nationale and leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from January 1961 to September 1961.
		He replaced Yves Prévost as interim UN leader and leader of the Opposition after the latter had served in those capacities for a few months following the resignation of former Premier Antonio Barrette from the UN leadership.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Antonio-Talbot.html (169 words)

	Pictorial Ceilings In England
		Verrio's efforts in the King's Guard Room was less of a jumble, more appropriate and truly decorative, for he filled compartments with figures of Peace and Plenty, Mars and Minerva, and again Mars with war symbols.
		However, Verrio recognising that the Stuart cause was hopeless, grudgingly accepted the commands of William and his Consort, resuming his labours at Hampton Court, where he associated Laguerre in most of his work.
		It is at Hampton Court that we are con-fronted with one of his most glaring abuses of the mock-heroic, for the Grand Staircase presents a brain bemusing medley of mythology, allegory and history.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles19/ceilings-12.shtml (3482 words)

	Antonio Verrio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He came to England in 1671 and executed wall-paintings for the nobility showing vast baroque mythologies.
		From 1688 to 1698, he decorated the Heaven Room at Burghley House.
		Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre.
	www.theezine.net /a/antonio-verrio.html (84 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Grisaille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine chapel have portions of the design in grisaille.
		At Hampton Court the lower part of the decoration of the great staircase by Antonio Verrio is in grisaille.
		The term is also applied to monochrome painting in enamels, and also to stained glass; a fine example of grisaille glass is in the window known as the Five Sisters, at the end of the north transept in York cathedral.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Grisaille (158 words)

	Antonio Verrio -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Antonio Verrio (1639-1707) was a decorative painter of (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian origin.
		He came to (A division of the United Kingdom) England in 1671 and executed wall-paintings for the nobility showing vast (Elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century) baroque (Click link for more info and facts about mythologies) mythologies.
		Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or (Click link for more info and facts about Laguerre) Laguerre.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/antonio_verrio.htm (181 words)

	Chatsworth House - Treasure Houses of England - UK Travel Information Guide
		His second son William, became the 1st Earl of Devonshire in 1618 and is the ancestor of all the later Earls and Dukes of Devonshire.
		Chatsworth House is an Elizabethan building which was renovated numerous times throughout the ages, most notably during the late 1600's when the painters Louis Laguerre and Antionio Verrio, with the help of a team of sculptors, panellers and forgers, redesigned and renovated the house.
		During the 18th century relatively few changes were made, but when the 4th Duke inherited the house he added the magnificent baroque stables, and employed 'Capability' Brown, of course, to replant the parklands.
	www.12travel.com /uk/heritage/treasurehses/chatsworth.html (499 words)

	Christ's Hospital - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The boys' school moved to the present location in 1902 (buildings by Aston Webb and Ingress Bell) with the girls' school re-unifying in 1985.
		Among artworks to be seen at the school are a monumental frieze painted by Antonio Verrio and a series of mural panels in the chapel by Frank Brangwyn.
		Links with the City and the Lord Mayor of London are maintained, with an annual parade through the City of London on St Matthew's Day and a regular place in the Lord Mayor's Show.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Christ's_Hospital (377 words)

	ANTONIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Search the ANTONIO Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the ANTONIO Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named ANTONIO at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/A/ANTONIO.htm (73 words)

	Burghley House - Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is how the masterpiece by Antonio Verrio - The Heaven Room - is described in a 19th century guide book.
		Verrio's work defies description; it is "other worldly" - his characters overflow with colour and seem so life-like you feel as if you could reach out and touch them.
		Verrio's last commission at Burghley was to paint the ceiling over the lofty staircase.
	www.stamford.co.uk /burghley/heaven.htm (175 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Verrio, Antonio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Verrio first worked for Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, but he was soon in the employ of the King, for whom he painted an easel picture, Charles II’s Sea Triumph (c.
		Verrio’s illusionistically painted ceilings were of two basic types, some imitating plasterwork set with pictures and some painted to look as if open to the sky, beyond a feigned parapet.
		The Windsor scheme was the greatest undertaking of his career, occupying him and a team of assistants, including Nicolas de Largillière c.
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0890/T089038.asp (436 words)

	James Thornhill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1689, he was apprenticed to Thomas Highmore (1660-1720), a specialist in non-figurative decorative painting.
		Young James also learned much from Antonio Verrio (1639?-1707) and Louis Laguerre (1663-1721), prominent foreign decorative painters then working in England.
		In 1696 he completed his apprenticeship and in March 1704 became a Freeman of the Painter-Stainers’ Company of London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Thornhill (547 words)

	Historic Royal Palaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The King's Staircase, the most spectacular in the palace, was decorated in about 1700 by the Italian painter, Antonio Verrio (1639-1707).
		The red velvet bed and matching furniture were purchased by William from his Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Jersey and installed after the ceiling had been painted by Antonio Verrio in 1701.
		The ceiling, again by Verrio, depicts another sleeping scene - Mars in the lap of Venus.
	www.hrp.org.uk /webcode/content.asp?ID=412 (1993 words)

	Windsor Castle, Berkshire
		On the north wall of the former Royal Chapel, small but significant fragments of Antonio Verrio's painted decoration for Charles II's chapel were revealed.
		Dated from c 1680, the baroque hall and chapel at Windsor were amongst the finest state departments ever created in Britain.
		the small areas of Verrio's scheme which survive at high level are parts of his painted architectural setting, including columns, capitals, and garlands, the heads of 3 figures, and a figure clinging to one of the columns.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /ArchRev/rev95_6/windsor.htm (807 words)

	Topiary Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To the right of the door the large walnut cupboard was probably made up from older Dutch marquetry panels in the late nineteenth century.
		The great stairway leading up to the first-floor State Rooms was commissioned by William Herbert, first Earl, Marquess and titular Duke of Powis, whose coat of arms is displayed (above the landing) at the foot of the ceiling canvas by Antonio Verrio (c.1639-1697).
		Verrio came to England in 1672 and established a large practice, inspiring Alexander Pope's lines:
	www.topiaryart.com /library/powis/publication/023.html (303 words)

	England's Glory 1720-1740
		This prolix scribbler, whose inane comments on Monamy have proved to be one of the major obstacles to the painter's recognition for the past 80 years, attributed the work to Antonio Verrio, (p.96).
		As Verrio's line of painting was altogether different, it is possible he invited Monamy's assistance on a subject of which he knew nothing."
		The first has Verrio (died 1707) seeking the assistance of an apprentice.
	www.cichw.net /pmenglor.html (1246 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Epsom Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Priory itself, leisure facilities, lake, landscape, facilities for children and teenagers and entrances to the park could all be transformed.
		The bid is closely linked to a move for funding by Surrey County Council to restore the 17th Century mural by the Italian artist Antonio Verrio at Reigate Priory School.
		Among the options residents are asked to consider will be a new fountain garden and water play area near the Priory.
	www.epsomguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=290002 (668 words)

	Biography of Sir James Thornhill
		He may have trained as an architect before becoming a pupil of the court painter Thomas Highmore.
		He also learned from the continental artists active in England, Louis Laguerre and Antonio Verrio, both of whom specialized in illusionistic wall decorations.
		In 1711 he travelled to Belgium and Holland to study Baroque architecture, which he recorded in his sketchbook.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuInDepth/Biography.cfm?biog=153 (305 words)

	The DiCamillo Companion - Database: History, Gardens, Movies
		Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, creator of Burghley, was Lord High Treasurer and primary advisor to Elizabeth I. Burghley is famous for its Roman staircase, possibly based on one in the Louvre.
		The state rooms painted by Antonio Verrio in the late 17th century form one of the greatest decorated suites in England.
		In the 18th century Lancelot ''Capability'' Brown landscaped the gardens and the 300 acre deer park, constructed the lake, built the stable courtyard, the Orangery, and Lion Bridge over the lake, all under the supervision of the 9th Earl of Exeter..
	www.dicamillocompanion.com /houses_hgpm.asp?ID=338 (388 words)

	Burghley House - Review - Interesting and Charmimg
		Mr Simon and Lady Victoria Leatham occupy it today, you may recognise her name, as she is one of the experts on the TV program (The Antiques Road show).
		There are a total of eighteen staterooms, many which were decorated by Antonio Verrio in the 17th century.
		My favourite room has to be Verrio’s Heaven room; it is one of his masterpieces.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /sightseeing-national/burghley-house/363410 (573 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		Burghley is truly a 'Treasure House', containing one of the largest private collections of Italian art, unique examples of Chinese and Japanese porcelain and superb items of 18th century furniture.
		The remodelling work of the 17th century means that examples of the work of the principal artists and craftsmen of the period are to be found here at Burghley: Antonio Verrio, Grinling Gibbons and Louis Laguerre all made major contributions to the beautiful interiors.
		The House is set in a 300-acre deer park landscaped by 'Capability' Brown under the direction of the 9th Earl.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/historichouses/eastern/burghley.html (263 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Setting the World on Fire
		This pageant-like novel opens at the end of the Second World War, when two young brothers are visiting their aristocratic grandmother, Lady Mosson, at her great house in Westminster.
		The importance of Tothill House within the novel is such that it has been given a perfectly plausible provenance: designed by the architects Roger Pratt and John Vanbrugh, with decorations by Grinling Gibbons and Antonio Verrio, the house has also a Great Hall with a trompe l'oeil painting of Phaeton's descent to earth.
		The Phaeton myth is central to the novel because it polarises the characters of the two boys: brave Piers admires Phaeton's courageous, doomed flight, but cautious Tom is terrified in childhood by the image of the earth being set alight.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2144 (592 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Laguerre, Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This was followed by a short period in the studio of Charles Le Brun until, in 1683–4, Laguerre went to England, where he worked first as an assistant to Antonio Verrio and then became a master decorator in his own right.
		His first major independent commission was for William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, Derbys, where between 1689 and 1697 he undertook an ambitious decorative scheme in the Baroque manner fashionable in England since its introduction by Verrio at Windsor.
		Laguerre painted the chapel, the hall and several of the state rooms at Chatsworth with mythological scenes set in a rich trompe-l’oeil framework.
	www.artnet.com /library/04/0487/T048771.asp (277 words)

	The Developments of Burghley House, 17th C.
		Antonio Verrio for the George Rooms and part of the Great Staircase, and
		George London and Henry Wise, for the park and gardens.
		Portrait of Antonio Verrio by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
	www.senseofplacepeterborough.org /Burghley/17C/burghley.html (349 words)

	Peter Leech: Cappella Fede
		At Midnight Mass 1686 the Catholic Chapel of King James II was officially opened at Whitehall.
		Designed by Christopher Wren, with interior carvings in stone and wood by Grinling Gibbons and paintings by Benedetto Gennari and Antonio Verrio, it was one of the most lavish ecclesiastical buildings in England.
		The maestro di cappella was the Italian composer Innocentio Fede (born circa 1661) from a famous musical family who dominated music in Rome in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.
	www.cappellafede.com /cap.html (457 words)

	DU Press Featured Works Look"
		The term 'art' is used here in the sense of artistic imagery as well as of the skill of the spinner in manipulating opinion.
		Langley discusses the work of such authors such as Edmund Waller and painters like Antonio Verrio to illuminate the changing ideologies of the late Stuart era and the way in which ideas about sovereignty were expressed by artists.
		Image Government traces some of the cranks and windings, ebbings and flowings that lead from Charles I's down fall to Queen Anne's coronation as they are registered in printed literature and visual art.
	www.dupress.duq.edu /publications/authors/langley.html (300 words)

	Burghley House
		Built and mostly designed by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer of England, between 1565 and 1587, the House is a family home to his descendants to this day.
		The State Rooms, many decorated by Antonio Verrio, house the earliest inventoried collection of Japanese ceramics in the West, rare examples of European porcelain and wood carvings by Grinling Gibbons.
		Four magnificent State Beds stand majestically against fine examples of continental furniture and important tapestries and textiles.
	www.rentaholidaycaravan.com /attractiondetails.asp?id=48&map= (229 words)

	Reigate Priory
		Throughout the Summer and Autumn 2005 the staircase and landing will be closed for restoration.
		Murals and ceilings were painted with scenes from Roman myths by Antonio Verrio, the famous Italian artist who worked at Hampton Court, at Chatsworth and at Burghley.
		On the ceiling above the staircase gods and godesses gather together for the marriage of Juno and Jupiter.
	reigatepriorymuseum.org.uk /priory.html (504 words)

	Burghley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The First George Room ceiling by Antonio Verrio
		This range of rooms on the South side of the House are the most magnificent of all the state apartments.
		The dramatic painted ceilings were executed by Antonio Verrio in the late 17th century.
	www.burghley.co.uk /t3_georgerooms.asp (120 words)

	Lakeview Museum: The Burghley House Gallery
		Though the interior was remodeled in the 1690s, the house remains the finest example of late 16th century architecture in England.
		Remodeling work was done by renowned artists and architects, including Antonio Verrio, Grinling Gibbons and Louis Laguerre.
		The 120 acre Deer Park surrounding the home was landscaped by Capability Brown.
	www.giovanetto.com /burghley/burghleyhistory.html (564 words)

	Tour Guides - Coach Tours outside London
		The State Apartments include the Waterloo Chamber, the Garter Throne Room and the Rubens room.
		The rooms were refurbished under Charles II in the 1660s, with lavish decorative work by such notable artists as Grinling Gibbons and Antonio Verrio.
		A later restyling under George IV adds to the grand effect.
	www.tourguides.co.uk /outoftown.html (780 words)

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