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...“I want to be Virgil,” he says, “not Dante.”...
...“Virgil passed away the day before it opened,” says Ross of his mentor Virgil Abloh, the Chicagoan who trained as an architect and became the first African-American artistic director at Louis Vuitton....
...Website; Directions St Peter’s Basilica And finally, don’t leave Rome without climbing to the top of the dome of St Peter’s in the Vatican....
...It was after seeing someone at a car event in St Moritz flexing a fake Tiffany Nautilus that he decided to act: he finds it particularly egregious if they can afford the real thing....
...Federico previously worked at The Savoy in London and the St Regis in Rome — he took a pay cut to return to his native Tuscany and oversee an operation that imports subtle luxury to this remote reserve....
...Last year, Virgil Abloh became the first African-American designer at the helm of menswear at Louis Vuitton....
...But by the time Virgil was writing the Aeneid, Mars was lauded as the patron god of Rome, father of Romulus and Remus, via rape. Nice....
...Virgil Abloh/Louis Vuitton 10. c) music 11. Opera 12....
...Sat front row was Virgil Abloh, the new creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton, who once employed Ross as a creative assistant....
...Even before misguided restorers added in St George and the Dragon in the 1930s, this was a baffling painting....
...Predictably, Edward St Aubyn’s Lost for Words, a satirical slight on the world of literary prizes, also failed to make the longlist....
...Not for the first time, my Virgil explains the situation through analogy....
...The bees of Duffy’s title – which allude to Virgil’s bees, Yeats’ “bee-loud glade”, and Ariel’s song in The Tempest – recur throughout the book, announcing the poet’s devotion to her vocation and her mastery...
...Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel, Canongate RRP£15.99 Imaginative and innovative novel about the Holocaust, including taxidermists, talking donkeys and the best ever description of a pear....
...by Rossetti’s copper-haired lover Lizzie Siddal, and then commissioned “Paolo and Francesca da Rimini”, depicted whirling through the second circle of hell reserved for lustful lovers, contemplated by Virgil...
...This is not, one senses, what Virgil had in mind. We are staying in a town called (inevitably) Seaview....
...important feature of his poetry, the new book feels like a homecoming, a renewed apprehension of the domos placidas, the peaceful homes he describes in “The Riverbank Field”, a poem prompted by Book VI of Virgil...
...He listens reverently when Virgil, his guide through the underworld, proudly states that he was born under the great Julius....
...Works by, among others, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and Lou Harrison bore him out, and two composers-in-residence, Stephen Scott and Curt Cacioppo, supplied newer music in similar vein....
...Tsvetaeva is no Virgil, and those entrapped in the Ninth Circle, unlike those of The Inferno, do not deserve their fate....
...The Gothic basilica of San Petronius, designed to be larger than St Peter’s in Rome but curtailed at the last minute by a resentful pope, throws its vast shadow across the square....
...Tory attitude to the countryside as old-fashioned and feudalistic, suggesting that with their own, Whiggish prescription for the landscape garden they were honouring the ancient precedents of Pliny and Virgil...
...Ovid, Virgil and St Just, the bucolic and the civic, the Jacobin, the Fascist, the Utopian and the Libertarian: such were the oppositions and correspondences, not always comfortable to the conventionally...
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