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...A splendidly unsentimental recorder, Flanders rams home the way that the commercially minded Victorians turned death and mourning into profit....
...Pope Francis, an Argentine Jesuit, soon established a reputation as a comparative liberal. If Benedict lived by the letter of Church law, Francis lives by its spirit....
...Corita would often take students on field trips to parking lots or the supermarket with empty photographic slide frames, encouraging them to home in on particular details, using her own photographs as examples...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Popes have enjoyed walking there too and the current Pope Francis has used the hard surfaced paths under the garden’s trees for his personal jogging....
...Eventually, the blues are asked to leave the field; it’s the only way to stop them fighting. Half an hour goes by before the game can finally begin....
...And Illumina, Grail’s former home, was taking notice....
...History might not be “dead”, as the historian Francis Fukuyama had suggested, but it was going in one direction....
...This feels daring in an increasingly feminised field: eight of Tate’s nine solo presentations of living artists in 2021 were by women, of very uneven standard....
...They have day jobs teaching or doing charity or social work, emulating the life of Francis of Assisi, their founding saint....
...The mercenaries in theory work for Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, but after a long campaign they are fighting only for a way to get paid....
...Assisi is a donkey ride away and St Francis was a frequent visitor....
...This places the weight of spiritual reassurances on religious leaders, including Pope Francis....
...The art indoors, even in the bedrooms, is remarkable too, adding to the sense that this is less a hotel than the home of a collector. And what a home!...
...Noble Francis: There is unlikely to be a substantial levelling up in 2021....
...Ray Barrell: Field trials are uncommon in macroeconomics, but now we have one....
...This month it begins a series of special exhibitions that showcase the V-A-C collection, a trove of international modern and contemporary work that ranges from Modigliani to Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon...
...V for one, England’s Henry VIII for another — but also to God....
...Titian’s masterpieces also found royal homes: the subtle, sensuous “Conjugal Allegory” entered Louis XIV’s collection, and Philip IV acquired the stately “Charles V and Dog”, model of machismo imperial portraiture...
...In Rome, hotel owners had been preparing for a bumper year in 2016, after Pope Francis called a Jubilee Holy year of pilgrimage. “But there was no sign of the tourists,” says Mr Bocca....
...“Go home!”...
...His name was more unexpected still: Alexander Francis Viswanathan Crabtree....
...In its pages the Renaissance became a field of material pleasures, as much business and street swagger as erudition and refinement....
..., Calvin Klein 2015: Tom Ford Noir (for men) Oscars dress 1985: Sally Field wears Holly Harp 2015: Julianne Moore wears Chanel Couture Ray-Ban aviators 1985: £6.95 (£18.90 today) 2015: £125 (minimum)...
...During my research I discovered that not only was it situated almost directly next-door to Lady Russell’s Blackfriars home, but that Field had a parallel career as one of the administrators of St Anne’s....
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