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...The inspiration was Luca della Robbia’s glazed terracotta Madonnas, while the jewelled surfaces suggest influences from goldsmith-sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti....
...Renaissance Secrets: A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the Vatican by Maurizio De Luca (Getty Publications) The rarest voice in art history is the restorer’s...
...Flowers” and Giuseppe Recco’s “Still Life with Fish and Other Marine Animals” — a characteristic Naples subject, relishing varied surfaces of iridescent scales, slimy crustaceans, flabby turtle — flank Luca...
...The porcelain maker Ginori 1735, Venetian glass master Barovier&Toso and the fabric house Rubelli’s Domus collection combined a series of modern, artisanal-made furniture and accessories designed by Luca...
...It is a scorching August afternoon when I meet the film director, screenwriter and producer Luca Guadagnino at the Grand Hotel et de Milan....
...“Self-portrait as Standing Nude with a Hat”, glaring pink paint flatly applied, face a blank oval, two luscious oranges pressed against her body, is a 20th-century woman’s witty take on Lucas Cranach’s bejewelled...
...Luca Guadagnino’s world is one in which I would happily reside....
...gravity-defying angled Parigi chair was one of the many designer collaborations that the family-run business has commissioned over its 88-year history: the treasures on show included a Gio Ponti writing desk, Luca...
...But you know, Jackie Doyle Price yesterday on the radio saying it was insane to go into this election talking about small boats, an issue which we are not going to tackle, we’re not competent on....
...Wilkes’ and Lucas’ presentations were notably weak. The Arts Council, as choices for YSP demonstrate, has a good though not flawless record of acquiring art that comes to matter....
...An Inventory of Losses, by Judith Schalansky, translated by Jackie Smith, MacLehose, RRP£20, 256 pages Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on...
...Two centuries later comes the glowing red chalk and wash of Neapolitan Luca Giordano’s “The Death of Saint Alexis Under the Steps of his Father’s House”, where deep drapery folds and the saint’s emaciated...
...Jackie Kay’s Chiaroscuro is her first production in the role, and given that the Bush has a policy of making seats available for locals at knockdown prices, even the cash-strapped fellow in the queue might...
...are the revelations at Tate, and connect Tanning both to prominent 1960s-70s feminist avant-garde artists working with textiles — Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama — and to fashionable contemporaries: Sarah Lucas...
...By placing such works among those by his Italian and German contemporaries — from Leonardo’s enigmatic “St Jerome in the Wilderness”, with innovative trapezoid form and tense anatomical rendering, to Lucas...
...He lacks the smirking arrogance of Larry David or the deadpan disillusion of Jackie Mason....
...Just like they said to Jackie Robinson, just stay here in the Black League . . . You cannot be deterred.”...
...You see the change instantly in the Morgan’s juxtaposition of two Lucas Cranach paintings....
...I leave him at the foot of his scaffolding and cross London to Embassy Gardens, where the streamlined silvery “ROD” stands alongside two further Rosenthal commissions, a bronze marrow by Sarah Lucas and...
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s chief visual arts critic....
...David Hockney and Paula Rego as well as Sarah Lucas, Glenn Brown, Martin Creed, appeared in the 2000 edition; the inaugural 1979 show had 112 artists of diverse stripes....
...There are painterly anchor points — Rembrandt, Munch, Bacon — but dominant is the story of traditional self-portraiture expanding via conceptualists — Beuys, Warhol, Michael Landy, Sarah Lucas — and photographic...
...Yarmouth — Lara Norris Norwich North — Jessica Asato Peterborough — Lisa Forbes Stevenage — Sharon Taylor Thurrock — Polly Billington South East Liberal Democrat Lewes — Norman Baker MP Winchester — Jackie...
...Tate’s largest gallery is a period piece reconstructing Clark’s collection amassed during the 1930s economic slump and arranged in his Hampstead mansion to emphasise plurality: Cézanne’s “Bathers” next to Luca...
...‘Sarah Lucas: Situation’ Whitechapel Gallery, London until December 15. whitechapelgallery.org...
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