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...But it is worth as much as Dante’s Paradise and the Michelangelos and Raphaels and even the Greeks.”...
...This spares any elfophobes among us from the nuts and bolts of the quest but does make what remains of the story rather hard to decode and the programme, most of it impenetrably printed grey-on-grey in what...
...Tucked away in a grey, nondescript corner of Copenhagen’s Nordvest district, the museum is a vibrant contrast to its drab surroundings....
...In the 1970s there were as few as 70 Apennine wolves, a distinct subspecies of the grey wolf. Today there are an estimated 3,300....
...“Siena mi fé, disfecemi Maremma — ‘Siena made me, Maremma unmade me’” — wrote Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy....
...Zuccarri begins with aghast, elongated figures delineated in red facing their spiritual predators — leopard (lust), lion (pride), she-wolf (avarice) — in a forest, delicately shaded soft greys to black,...
...His sleek grey and blue check suit looks like it would not have fit him before he lost 30 pounds, 15 per cent of his body weight, on the drug....
...(It’s Kafka’s “Castle” morphing into a manga version of Dante’s Hell.) The dramatis personae is bulgingly multitudinous. Transformation scenes tumble over each other....
...We’ve all got a fog in the brain, all our days have declined to a uniform grey, we all tend to repeat versions of Sylvia Plath’s bell jar — an image even she does not belabour....
...The Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who shared Kelmscott Manor with Morris and his wife Jane, brought a topiary armchair. Was he teasing Morris for his mythical hedging?...
...Reclining on a scarlet divan that forms a tilting stage, the still, disinterested figure of Sardanapalus contrasts with the verve and sweep of his concubines writhing in horror, a black slave leading a dapple grey...
...opening gallery we hear Eliot reading the poem; against the immersive jumble of images, a cacophony imitating modern urban confusion plays against the order of rhythm and rhyme, quotations from Shakespeare, Dante...
Sheila Hancock shines in this musical about a mother and daughter living in grand, reclusive squalor
...At the end of his life he hung at home a Picasso portrait of Dora Maar, majestic but broken against a grey ground, for “the anguish of the figure, the terrible expression of the face” helped him achieve...
...In Manhattan, the sight of a “deep grey box” in the sidewalk chills him. The squalid cells of Abu Salim seldom leave his thoughts....
...Frequently used in Christian art, the lily appears in scenes of the Annunciation in paintings by Hans Memling and Dante Gabriel Rossetti....
...Of particular note is the complete series of 100 colour wood engravings detailing Dante’s “The Divine Comedy”....
...I might as well have read them Dante on a lower pit of Hell....
...Black suit, grey hair. Rhythms of speech abrupt but pianissimo....
...In Ravenna, we hopped out for a coffee and a glimpse of Dante’s tomb before spiralling down towards the principality of San Marino in a haze of dandelion puff and birdsong behind a lemon-coloured Corvette...
...Next to her, painted the same year, is “Bocca Baciata”, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s flame-haired, pouting lover Fanny Cornforth in what he called her “Venetian aspect”, her sparkling jewels and archaic costume...
...Dolce enters next: shorter, bald, with black-rimmed glasses perched on his head, wearing a grey sweater and jeans....
...Includes his accessible fragments of Dante’s Inferno. Natalie Whittle …………………………………………………………….....
...In spaces drained of natural light – embellished with plush red curtains, bottomless display cases where artefacts hang in mid-air, and Dante-esque tunnels – certain images stay with you....
...His Dante-inspired Hell’s Half Acre show in The Old Vic Tunnels last October, in collaboration with Old Vic Theatre artistic director Kevin Spacey, was a particular success and a pointer to future direction...
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