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...Even the term itself is has a long lineage: he finds the superabundantes coming in for criticism by Nicolas Oresme, a 14th-century counsellor to Charles V of France, who thought they “exceed and overcome...
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...Given how enduring the list is, my money is on the future William V finding the attrition rate among the UK top 10 still remaining low by the time he succeeds his father Charles III....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...The King referred to his eldest son, Prince William, in his speech, saying that “the prince and princess of Wales” had recently made a successful public visit to Wales....
...There are other venues too: the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, which hosts an installation by Birmingham-born multidisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada; and AirSpace gallery, where William Cobbing brings...
...Simultaneously, London is also a place with backyard shanty housing and squalor that Charles Dickens would recognise....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...Charles and Diana separated....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...But one of the best films of the festival was the gentlest, a wonderful low-fi British comedy called Brian and Charles....
...It started with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, then I went a bit further back to William Morris and the arts and crafts and aesthetic movements....
...One sculpture on the visitor route at Chatsworth, “Bust of an African Woman” by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (1851), depicts a formerly enslaved woman in bronze....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Complaint | Trump campaign dismissal | Affidavits One, Two Joe Biden’s margin of victory: 33,596 votes, or 2.39% VOTES CERTIFIED ON November 24 State court cases Name: Jesse Law et al v....
...The secret pact was sealed by Salisbury, Irvine and the Labour prime minister behind the back of William Hague, the Tory leader at the time. “Big mistake,” Salisbury recalls....
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...Buckinghamshire Crossword 16,057: Clare Job, Dorset; T Alderson, Stevenage; Amanda Riddle, Essex Polymath 1,003: R Rutter, Shropshire Crossword 16,052: Trevor Mason, Hertford; Gareth Daves, Newport; Charles...
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
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