List of things named Venetian

Venice, Italy

The list of things named Venetian is quite extensive.

Venetian generally describes anything from or related to the Italian city of Venice, or the Veneto region (of which Venice is the capital), or of the Republic of Venice (697–1797), a historical nation in that area. The term may also refer to the Venetian language, a Romance language spoken mostly in the Veneto region.

The term Venetian may also mean from or related to the American city of Venice, Florida, in Sarasota County.

There are many concept names that use the term "Venetian" in those general senses, such as Venetian cuisine, Venetian music, Venetian grammar, etc. There are however many concepts where "Venetian" has a special sense that cannot be deduced form the general ones. There are also many people, buildings, and works of art with "Venetian" in their name.

Special senses

History

Venetian Albania
Venetian grosso
  • Venetian Albania (1392–1797), dominion of the Republic of Venice in present south Montenegro and north Albania
  • Venetian Crete, the Kingdom of Candia (1212–1669), a colony of the Republic of Venice
  • Venetian Crusade (1122–1124) by the Republic of Venice to the Holy Land
  • Venetian Dalmatia (1400–1797), dominion of the Republic of Venice in present Croatia
  • Venetian ducat, a gold ducat coin issued by the Republic of Venice from 1284 to 1797
  • Venetian grosso, a silver coin minted by the Republic of Venice in 1193
  • Venetian Interdict, a Papal decree placing sanctions on the Republic of Venice in 1605–1607
  • Venetian lira, a currency of the Republic of Venice issued from 953 to 1807
  • Venetian rule in the Ionian Islands (1361–1797), by the Republic of Venice
  • Venetian Province, a historical province (1797–1815), the former territory of the Republic of Venice
  • Venetian rule or Venetocracy (Βενετοκρατία, Venetokratia), the period of Venetian rule in Greece (1212–1669); see Frankokratia

Geography

Venetian Lagoon

Styles of arts and crafts

Venetian point

Objects and products

Architecture and furniture

Venetian window
  • Venetian arch, a usually pointed arch with a band wider at the peak than at the spring[2]
  • Venetian blind, or Venetian, a common type of window blind similar to Persian blind
  • Venetian curtain, a type of theater front curtain
  • Venetian dentil, an architectural ornament; a type of dentil
  • Venetian door, a door with narrow sidelights, like a Venetian window[3]
  • Venetian carpet, a type of inexpensive carpet[4]
  • Venetian window, a type of window with arched top flanked by two narrow sidelights

Utensils, materials, plants

Venetian balls
Venetian mask
  • Venetian ball, a ball of glass with enclosed objects, often used as paperweight[5]
  • Venetian blind shades or shutter shades, sunglasses with horizontal slats instead of lenses
  • Venetian chalk, a white compact talc or steatite used especially for marking on cloth[6]
  • Venetian mask, a special variety traditionally worn in the Carnival of Venice
  • Venetian plaster, a type of polished plaster including marble dust
  • Venetian pearl, an imitation pearl made of solid glass
  • Venetian-style shoe, or Venetian loafer, a plain mid-heel slipper
  • Venetian soap, made with olive oil[7]
  • Venetian sumac or smoke tree (Cotinus abovatus)[8]
  • Venetian swell, a swell organ with blinds patterned closing the swell box[9]

Colors, pigments, and varnishes

Venetian red
  • Venetian blue, same as cobalt blue
  • Venetian ceruse, a lead-based white cosmetic face paint used in the 1600s and 1700s
  • Venetian green, a bluish dark green color[10]
  • Venetian lake, a red painter's pigment or shade or carmine (color)[11]
  • Venetian red, a painter's pigment
  • Venetian rose, a shade of pink[12]
  • Venetian scarlet, a shade of red[13]
  • Venetian turpentine or Venice turpentine, an artists' varnish from larch (Larix decidua) resin[14]
  • Venetian white, a painter's pigment, mix of lead white and barium sulfate[15]
  • Venetian yellow or amber yellow, a shade of yellow[16]

Other

  • Venetian Carnival, or the Carnival of Venice, a traditional festivity since the 12th century
  • Venetian Festival, any modern costume festivity inspired on the historic carnival of Venice

In titles and names

Buildings and structures

Venetian Causeway
Venetian Pool

Books and plays

Carlo Goldoni
Abel Hermant
  • The Anonymous Venetian (novel), a book by Donna Leon
  • The Venetian, or The Venetian Woman, or The Venetian Comedy, originally La veniexiana (play), comedy play in Venetian language, 1535–1537
  • The Venetian Affair (novel), 1963 novel by Scottish-American author Helen MacInnes
  • The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers Nicolò and Antonio Zeno to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century, account of the travels of the Zeno brothers, edited by R. H. Major, 1873[17]
  • Venetian Masque, a 1935 English adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini
  • The Venetian Nights (Les noces vénitiennes), a 1924 novel by Abel Hermant published by Ferenczi
  • The Venetian Twins (I due gemelli veneziani), a 1747 theater play by Goldoni
  • The Venetian Twins (musical), a 1979 Australian musical comedy play by Enright and Clarke
  • The Venetians, 1892 novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Movies

Paintings

Dürer: Portrait of a Venetian Woman
Carriera: A Venetian Lady from the House of Barbarigo
Tintoretto: Portrait of a Venetian
  • Portrait of a Venetian by Tintoretto, ca. 1550 [18]
  • Portrait of a Venetian Admiral by Tintoretto, 1570s [19]
  • Self-Portrait as Venetian Ambassador, by Bernardo Bellotto, 1765 [20]
  • Pavel Sorokoumskiy as Venetian Doge, unknown painter, late 1800s [21]
  • The Venetian Girl by Frank Duvenek, ca. 1880 [22]
  • Head of a Venetian Girl by Giorgione, 1509 [23]
  • A Venetian Lady from the House of Barbarigo by Rosalba Carriera, 1735–1740 [24]
  • Portrait of a Venetian Man by Jan van Scorel, ca. 1520 [25]
  • Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman by Peter Paul Rubens, 1620s [26]
  • Venetian Nobleman by Tintoretto, 1590s [27]
  • Portrait of the Venetian Painter Giovanni Bellini by Tizian, 1511–1512 [28]
  • Portrait of a Venetian Senator, by Tintoretto, ca. 1570 [29]
  • The Venetian Shoe Black (Lustrascarpe veneziano), tinted photo by Carlo Ponti, 1867 [30]
  • Portrait of a Venetian Woman, by Paolo Veronese, late 1500s [31]
  • Portrait of a Venetian Woman, or Madonna delle rose, by Tintoretto, 1597–1600 [32]
  • Portrait of a Venetian Woman, a 1505 painting by Albrecht Dürer[33]
  • Portrait of a Venetian Woman, or La Belle Nani, by Paolo Veronese[34]

People and spirits

Political parties and movements

Other

Penny Venetian Red
  • Venetian Arts Society, a not-for-profit organization in Fort Lauderdale (FL), USA
  • Penny Venetian Red, a British postage stamp issued in 1880–1881
  • Venetian Way (1957–1964), a racehorse, winner of the 1960 Kentucky derby

See also

References

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  2. ^ Merriam-Webster: Venetian arch
  3. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian door
  4. ^ Merriam-Webster: Venetian carpet
  5. ^ Merriam-Webster: Venetian ball
  6. ^ Merriam-Webster: Venetian chalk
  7. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian soap
  8. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian sumac
  9. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian swell
  10. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian green
  11. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian lake
  12. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian rose
  13. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian scarlet
  14. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venice turpentine
  15. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian white
  16. ^ Meriam-Webster: Venetian yellow
  17. ^ Richard Henry Major (1873): The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas, in the XIVth Century, comprising The Latest Known Accounts of the Lost Colony of Greenland; and of the Northmen in America before Columbus. Haklyut Society.
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