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...Above all, it describes how the despotism Augustus created, and within which his successor Caesars lived, actually worked....
...Forerunners include Vermeer, though the light that filters through his salons is less humble than John’s beams....
...I also love the way the light falls through them, highlighting different colours at different times of the day.”...
...formations off Punta di Tragara, inlets lapped by waters whose tones defy the blue-green spectrum of the Pantone chart to contain them — they’ve been part of the islands sell since Rome’s first emperor, Augustus...
...The signature design – eclectic and vintage-leaning with lots of natural light – is in evidence, along with two restaurants and a lovely courtyard garden and pool with its own dedicated café. palisociety.com...
...Her conversation is often a stream of consciousness; she is deeply serious and doesn’t do light chat. When she is lost in memory, her voice is barely audible....
...She shows me inside: the loo to the left (with Niko’s Lego masterpieces as decor), shower room to the right, and a central, light-flooded space with a wide basin....
...There are no road signs here, no street lights or petrol stations, no buildings save occasional military sangars, watchtowers and distinctly incongruous portable toilets....
...They look at the sails filled with wind, and their eyes light up — for me, that’s freedom.” For me too....
...In 2017 the artist made a film in the House of Commons and came away with a pallet-load of worn floor tiles created by the building’s 19th-century architect, Augustus Pugin....
...The Beaumont, 8 Balderton Street, Brown Hart Gardens, London W1K 6TF St John, Spitalfields What The French House in Soho was for Francis Bacon, Augustus John and Lucian Freud in the mid-20th century,...
...The open occulus of the roof has a strange effect; I always feel I am wading through honey-coloured light in the Pantheon’s wide embrace. A couple of kings of the unified Italy are buried here....
...Then she bought another inn, The Angel, and turned it into a hotel, handsomely furnished from a shop, Augustus Brandt, that she has also acquired....
...Blending pastoral and politics, a millefeuille of Baltic history unfolds in Riga, at best with a light touch....
...On the left is the Theatre of Marcellus; inaugurated by Augustus in 12BC, it passed from use as a quarry to abandonment to, 1,500 years later, the seat of the noble Orsini family, whose Renaissance residences...
...I’m here to open an exhibition in one of Augustus’s other palaces, just across the Elbe....
...“In order to avoid interfering with the election, Facebook effectively gave a green light to misleading, sensationalistic posts that themselves arguably interfered with the election,” Levy writes....
...Here they have analysed the shooting of Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old African-American barber, in Chicago last year....
...Their speciality is the traditional candlelit arch or Schwibbogen, most commonly seen as eyebrows of light in household windows all over Europe, and inspired originally by the wooden arches where miners...
...Coins can help shed light on our country’s past. Take the Romano-British emperor, Carausius, a powerful naval general who usurped power from the emperor in Rome and fled to Britain....
..., 1560-1720, by Dagomar Degroot, Cambridge University Press, RRP£90/$120 With the publication of Dagomar Degroot’s groundbreaking book, the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century appears in a wholly new light...
...Revellers light candles, open bottles of booze and adorn relatives’ graves with flowers....
...Here’s an excerpt of a controversial essay from Oxford undergraduate Augustus Fukushima: “The time is nigh to slaughter some of Britain’s sacred cows....
...John Augustus Roebling was an immigrant from Germany who came to Pennsylvania in 1831 to set up as a farmer. His talent, however, was for engineering....
...Compared with Augustus Pugin, nearly everyone is an underachiever....
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