Portici

[ pawr-ti-chee; Italian pawr-tee-chee ]

noun

1. a city in S Italy, on the Bay of Naples.

Example Sentences

The Huntington’s permanent collection includes two other Wright easel paintings in addition to “Vesuvius From Portici” and three drawings by the artist.

From Los Angeles Times

Mahler gave Wiesenthal — a member of the corps de ballet — a solo in “La Muette de Portici,” which infuriated Hassreiter and went directly against his wishes.

From New York Times

Bologna is covered with an incredible maze of nearly 40 kilometres of portici arches, but the Cirenaica neighbourhood is the only part of the city where you won’t see one.

From The Guardian

When directing the historical drama “The Dumb Girl of Portici,” the only movie in which the dancer Anna Pavlova stars, Weber invented a complex system of “animated titles” involving exactingly calibrated mirrors.

From The New Yorker

Weber’s cinematic Christianity was liberal yet stringent, deeply empathetic to natural desires, fiercely critical of narrow-minded and self-righteous moralism in the name of religion, passionately contemptuous of the rich and greedy, and intensely sympathetic to the poor, the disfavored, the overlooked, and the despised—as seen in other of her films that have been preserved and released on DVD, “The Dumb Girl of Portici,” “Shoes,” and “The Blot.”

From The New Yorker