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...For the medieval baron, whose castle was both home and fortification, mastery of all he surveyed was critical to survival....
...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...Homes in the “golden triangle” between the medieval villages of Gordes, Ménerbes and Bonnieux have especially been in demand, it added....
...The 1969 Knights of Columbus HQ in New Haven is almost medieval in its scale, four cylindrical towers holding up a mass of rusting, industrial steel, while the 1974 College Life Insurance Company building...
...The V&A is certainly trying hard....
...“It was universally accepted that he was the ambassador for old motor cars,” says Robert Brooks, chairman of Bonhams, which is to conduct today’s auction....
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 20 7861 5321 Photographs: Jack W Taylor; Bonhams; Carl Bigmore; The Crown Estate Slideshow photographs: Carl Bigmore...
...James Knight, group motoring director at Bonhams auction house, said nine out of 10 classic cars coming under the hammer last year found new homes....
...Source: Knight Frank …………………………………………………………….....
...Sir Paul has given £5m to the V&A and £3m to the British Museum’s new medieval gallery....
...In an online “manifesto” setting out his plans and rationale for the attacks, Mr Breivik talked about reviving the Knights Templar, a medieval order of crusading monks, and he also claimed to have had contact...
...He was the 36th man to hold the post since it was created in 1415 by another medieval English king, Henry V, just before he sailed for France and the Battle of Agincourt....
...By this time chess was a popular game among the nobility and it was in medieval Europe that chess pieces took figurative form, with the kings, bishops, knights and other figures reflecting the feudal society...
...Carsten Holler’s spectacular “Carousel” is a play on the medieval machine devised to train young knights, completely mirrored to reflect the castle and its grounds at every turn....
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