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6.00" x 8.00"
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8.00" x 10.00"
Venetian Door Knocker Poster
by Mary Capriole
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Venetian Door Knocker poster by Mary Capriole. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Jan Morris tells us in A Venetian Bestiary:... more
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Artist's Description
Jan Morris tells us in A Venetian Bestiary:
"From the common cat (felis catus), the Venetians, their horizons enlarged by their imperial and commercial adventures, turned to the lion (leo leo), and were eventually besotted by him. Leo leo turned their heads! They built him onto their corbels, they slipped him into their allegories, they stuck him on gateposts, they made him the corner-stones of bridges. Citizens kept live lions in their gardens, and for a time a State Lion lived in a golden cage in the Piazza; he died, it is said, because licking the bars gave him gilt poisoning, and thereafter captive lions were forbidden for several centuries. When one turned up, though, at the Venetian Carnival of 1762, Pietro Longhi showed him grandly on display, with a little dog on his back, dancing dogs all around him, a monkey on a beam above, a fiddler fiddling, and the strolling Venetians engrossed as ever by his presence."
About Mary Capriole
Photography, painting, sculpture and collage. Living in New England. www.MaryCapriole.com I received a Bachelor of Arts Degree focusing on Art History and Literature. Studies also included the Italian Language and Studio Art. I continue to enroll in courses and workshops and am currently up to my elbows in clay taking pottery classes at purplesagepottery.com. I am also an artist member at the North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester, Massachusetts www.nsarts.org. All original art work is for sale unless otherwise noted. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VISITING MY PROFILE PAGE!
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Xueling Zou
Well captured, nice! Many thanks for your nice comment on my "Peruvian Door Decor 1"!!!