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    What connects: a Renaissance artist who revolutionized painting -- particularly landscape painting -- in a northern Italian city; a colorful cocktail closely associated with an overpriced tourist trap in that same city; and a composer who is known for a work with a sleepwalking theme?

    Question #75373. Asked by lanfranco. (Feb 02 07 5:08 PM)


    peasypod

    		Well, all this points to me as 'Giovanni Bellini'.

    A Venetian cocktail made with peaches and sparkling wine, Titan spent quite a bit of time learning with Bellini and his brother, and "La Sonnambula" was the masterpiece of Bellini the composer.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellini_(cocktail)

    Feb 02 07, 5:35 PM
    lanfranco

    		Ottimo! I was looking at Giovanni Bellini today, and the question suggested itself.

    Not that tough, I know, but it's Friday, and I'm tired. I'm not a fan of "Harry's Bar" either.

    But here's my favorite Bellini, at the Frick:


    http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bellini/bellini37.html

    Feb 02 07, 5:41 PM
    peasypod

    		Can't say I've ever been to Harry's Bar (walked past it many a time though) but anything remotely near Piazza San Marco charge for the air you breathe.

    Feb 02 07, 5:47 PM

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