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...Andrea di Boniauto’s unique “The Virgin and Child with Ten Saints” evokes precisely Florence’s Church of Santa Maria Novella, and was painted as a visual map of it....
...Giovanni de’ Vecchi’s elaborate sketch “Christ in Glory” with six saints, for a Roman church, is more precisely orchestrated and was probably a presentation piece to a patron....
...Fragments of this 7th-century glass have been found at St Peter’s Church in Monkwearmouth....
...The church, dedicated to St Nicholas, opened at the end of last year but attracted little international attention despite its starry architect and prominent position....
...The interior of the monastic church at Saint Naum has not changed in a thousand years....
...As told to Tim Auld West End Woofs & Meows is at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London WC2, 10am-12.30pm on 18 November....
...Overnight, mist has sunk into the seams of the hills and now, as far as the eye can see, an archipelago of mountains floats on a white sea. No wonder the Phom call themselves “people of the clouds”....
...Eight-metre-high portraits of the Opus Dei founder hung from the balustrades of St Peter’s Basilica as the Pope officiated from an open-air altar....
...Open Tuesday–Thursday, 6.30am–noon Website; Directions St Botolph was a seventh-century English patron saint of wayfarers, and his name was given to the four churches at the entrance to the City’s ancient...
...Cock’s big commercial successes were Pieter Bruegel’s designs, led by “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (1556), a magnificent grotesquerie, surrounding the hermit saint with imaginary creatures composed...
...This year’s scene in St Peter’s Square comes from the diocese of Rieti, not far from Rome, where St Francis of Assisi is believed to have created the first Nativity scene 800 years ago (see below)....
...Fiumi fountain, Saint Agnese church and Palazzo Pamphilj....
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
...I stop at the Church of St Vincent while waiting for the short shuttle bus back to my hotel, stepping softly as my ski boots knock against 500-year-old stone....
...The first, set in a desert between masses of jutting rocks, echoed in the spiky clouds, is stark; the second, featuring doctor-saints Damian and Cosmas curing a man by amputating a rotten leg and replacing...
...Bishop Yohannes placed his hand on his Bible and, reading from St Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, delivered a message to his former peers in the Ethiopian Orthodox church: “Whatever one sows, that will...
..., enjoy the view across to St Peter’s....
...by Saints”, commissioned for an Antwerp church....
...He attended Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where his history tutor was Hugh Trevor-Roper, and gained a first....
...But creating products remains foremost a meditative act of devotion in the eyes of Father John, who runs Sanctuary Products from St Augustine’s Abbey, a Victorian friary in Surrey....
...A convulsive force sweeps up the squat homes in “Thatched Cottages in Cordeville” into a similarly swirling design: roofs undulate against spiralling trees and curlicues of clouds....
...We had help this week from Joanna Kao, Zach St Louis, Sam Giovinco, David da Silva, Michael Lello, Peter Barber and Gavin Kallmann. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz....
...Through the gate, along the path that neighbours St Peter’s Church, Kourbaj has planted Syrian wheat seeds....
...“Peter [Do, the creative director] is of Asian descent as well and I think that’s very important.” De Givenchy shrugs off the typical beauty standards expected of Asian models and women in general....
...Truss has chosen the Bedingfeld Arms for lunch, a gastropub overlooking Oxborough’s partially ruined St John’s church, which collapsed after a storm in 1948....
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