Like their Italian predecessors the Russian Futurists were fascinated with dynamism, speed and the restlessness of modern urban life.

The profiles became thinner than their Italian predecessors, and continuous design such as egg-and-dart, ribbon and flow of leaves, and pronounced low relief corner designs appeared.

It all has to do, he says, with the type of wood and varnish his great Italian predecessors found in Venice.

After her departure, the ballet was taken over by Mathilde Kschessinskaya, who was as much celebrated in the role as was her Italian predecessor.

Unlike their French or Italian predecessors, however, these filmmakers have received very little attention in the United States.

Despite the intellectual debt he acknowledged to Beccaria, his ideas differed from those of his Italian predecessor in several respects.

Storace's two toccatas are rather brief pieces, less complex harmonically than their Italian predecessors.

And, since the recipe uses vegetable stock and no cheese, it is lower in fat and calories than its Italian predecessor.

Portuguese merchants, like their Italian predecessors, did not treat their trading stations as colonies.

At this time the French opened the garden up to enormous proportions compared to their Italian predecessor.