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...Attracted early to Old Master gravitas, at 17 he painted “Mother and Child” (1930), a chunky Madonna grappling with a voracious, uncontrollable baby, crystalline against an eerie architectural backdrop....
...(Simon Mundy) Shareholders seek antidote to antibiotic resistance Not even Madonna is immune to the threat of bacteria....
...These include a polychrome terracotta “Madonna and Child” (c1690-1706) by the Spanish court artist Luisa Roldán, known as La Roldana, priced at $2mn....
...Andrea Ciaroni of Milan-based Altomani & Sons argues that the Old Masters market is a world apart from the contemporary art sector....
...It catapults Saville’s art into direct encounters with that of Michelangelo, Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Luca and Andrea della Robbia....
...On a tour of the building, executive chef Andreas Engberg, formerly of La Petite Maison, can be seen deep in discussion in one of the club kitchens....
...Early titles such as Vice City and San Andreas were adored for their radio stations — expert selections of genres ranging from ’80s power ballads to salsa to gangsta rap....
...Celebrities can seem irritatingly out of touch during a pandemic: stars from Ellen DeGeneres to Madonna have faced backlashes for broadcasting their frustrations from the comfort of luxurious mansions....
...Psychologically and architecturally intriguing, the painting invites us into Turin’s major exhibition Andrea Mantegna: Reviving the Antique, Constructing the Modern....
...Those in the know ask for Andrea (although all the technicians are exceptionally well-trained), who is just as skilled with classic manicures and pedicures (from £42) as nail art and extensions (from £90...
...There, in a show at Palazzo Strozzi devoted to Andrea del Verrocchio, the 15th-century artist who was Leonardo’s teacher, the terracotta sculpture of a shy Madonna and her giggling babe were attributed to...
...Rather than an old chestnut, McCartney picked The Beatles’ “Lady Madonna”, singing its sobering verses about financial hardship in a somewhat froggy voice at an electric organ....
...A startling, theatrical opening centres not on a work by Leonardo but a sculpture by his master Andrea del Verrocchio, “The Incredulity of St Thomas” (1467-83)....
...Verrocchio’s showstopper is the Volterra Madonna....
...Andrea Mantegna was 17 when, in 1448, he painted the assured “St Jerome” for a humanist poet....
...The decision to open the newly refurbished Hayward Gallery with the first major UK retrospective of photographer Andreas Gursky was inspired....
...Andrea Buccellati, creative director and president of his eponymous house, says male clients prefer simpler crosses — asking for burnished dark colours, black diamonds but “not a lot of stones”....
...The apostle John supports Christ’s fallen body, the Madonna holds an arm, Mary Magdalene, hands clasped to her face, kneels at his feet....
...By ripping them here and there, then adding gestural strokes in a deep Madonna-blue ink, he transformed them into visual elegies with spiritual overtones....
...Madonna and Sting have stayed in the island’s square houses with their metre-thick walls of volcanic stone and gently domed roofs....
...He also bought 12 paintings in Rome, including Domenichino’s fine “Madonna della Rosa”....
...On show here is his glorious “Madonna and Child with Saints” (1465), on loan from Capodimonte in Naples....
...(Andrea del Sarto, Piero’s pupil, was an early Mannerist.)...
...Mr Lee said: “You are not Madonna. You are not the church. You are a general store. People go in to you because they want to buy things in a decent atmosphere at prices they like....
...Babies wriggle; saints gaze upwards in despair; the Madonna’s outstretched finger vibrates with eloquence....
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