{"id":5412,"date":"2012-03-19T23:55:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2012-03-19T23:55:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:55:49","slug":"virtu-restaurant-bar-2460-devine-street-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5412","title":{"rendered":"Virtu Restaurant & Bar, 2460 Devine Street: March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Commenter (and blogger<\/a>) April pointed out this closing of yet another Columbia restaurant I knew nothing about. From her review<\/a>, it sounds like a nice place, if probably a bit tony for me.<\/p>\n

I've heard the phrase \"objects of virtu\" before (probably in an SF story), and according to the always accurate Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nThe Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano described these objects as \"statues, pictures, tapestries, divans, chairs of ivory, cloth interwoven with gems, many-coloured boxes and coffers in the Arabian style, crystal vases and other things of this kind . . . [whose] sight . . . is pleasing and brings prestige to the owner of the house.\" They all spoke to the wealth, taste and virtu of their owner.<\/p>\n

-- John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Judging from the way the peeling front awning reveals a palimpsest Dianne's<\/i>, I suspect this whole space was once part of Dianne's<\/i>, but since I've never visited that<\/i> place either, I can't say for sure.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter April).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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