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...Jonathan Anderson chopped out V-shaped peepholes on fleshy chests and based many of his clothes on “the mundane object” — weird moulded shoes designed to recall the claw feet of Georgian furniture, wide...
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...“It’s going to make us an institution that’s as well regarded as the V&A or the National Portrait Gallery for photography,” says Phillip Roberts, the man who has been hired as the Bern and Ronny Schwartz...
...An expected 30 per cent fall in revenues for this year means salary cuts for cardinals, a slowdown in renovation work and a reduction in international travel....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...(FT) Cardinal jailed Cardinal George Pell was sentenced by an Australian court to six years in prison following his conviction in December for sexually abusing two choirboys in the mid-1990s....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...The annual award also credited the 164-year-old museum with raising more than £2m to acquire four important bronze angels originally created for the tomb of Cardinal Wolsey, at one point chief adviser to...
...His apartment is “a micro-V&A” of eclectic religious artefacts and exotic antiquities....
...‘Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear’ is at the V&A, April 16 2016-March 12 2017 Photographs: Sam Shaw/Shaw Family Archives/Getty Images; Catwalking.com...
...They are one of only two families to have three generations of work represented in the Smithsonian (the other is the Wyeth family of painters)....
...Tapestries at the V&A Wolsey spent vast sums on tapestries and owned more than 100, all taken by the king after the cardinal’s fall....
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...It was not born great but had greatness thrust upon it when, in 1309, the newly elected French Pope Clement V decided that he would rather not live in Rome and settled instead in this pleasant small town...
...Benedict is the first pontiff to leave office of his own free will since Celestine V in 1294....
...Meanwhile here’s the DOJ’s sealed criminal complaint in USA v Martoma....
...Benedict surprised millions of Catholics when he announced on February 11 that he would abdicate, making him the first pontiff to step down voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294....
...But the most spectacular was Hampton Court Palace, a gift from Cardinal Wolsey, which he spent some £62,000 (equivalent to about £18m today) rebuilding and extending....
...Celestine V, the last pope to abdicate voluntarily, resigned in 1294 after just five months. Pope Benedict’s resignation generated responses from across the globe....
...Until Monday he had given no explicit sign that he planned to become the first pope to stand down for personal reasons since Celestine V in 1294....
...“In the case of Celestine V, the basic reason was that he was quite incapable of dealing with his in-tray, so to speak....
...A conclave of cardinals will be held to elect a new pope next month....
...The new pope is chosen by 115 cardinal-electors during a secret election in the Sistine Chapel....
...Paeonia “Cardinal Vaughan” Tree peonies have a long history in horticulture....
...I picture a cardinal in purple slippers gliding through the crowd of hipsters and off-stage models but suddenly remember why I’m here: Valentine’s Day. Roses, peonies, ranunculus or lilies?...
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