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...The project is the idea of David Landau, the businessman, philanthropist and art historian whose charitable foundation Pentagram Stiftung has supported the renaissance of glass in Venice over the past decade...
...During my residency, the Prado’s one Caravaggio was being restored: a depiction of David with the head of Goliath from 1600, in which David looms largest, his knee resting on a felled Goliath as he grabs...
...But the versatile David also produced images of the heroic legislator....
...It may be easy to see bad art, but much, much harder to say one piece of art, say a Picasso, has more merit than another, say an El Greco. The best museums have a wide variety.” — David...
...The sketch was loaned to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and David Lewis describes this as a turning point for him....
...He feels like a living presence: as a critic on contemporary art, I am struck by how many conversations with painters — Peter Doig, David Hockney, Bridget Riley — turn to Monet....
...Built by Ptolemaic and Roman rulers, keen to associate themselves with the cult of Osiris, it is a surprisingly harmonious blend of Pharaonic and Greco-Roman architecture....
...He filled his days with drawings of the Forum, the Pantheon, nudes and figures costumed as Greco-Roman archetypes, arming himself with an arsenal of memories....
...He spent the 1993-94 judicial term working for David Sentelle, who is still a senior judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
...Richelieu brought Poussin back to France, with long-term impact on art history: the constructing line of Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne (who wanted “to do Poussin from...
...The gypsy jazz shuffle of the first four albums, in love with Prévert and Baudelaire, threw up highlights like “La Javanaise”, written for Juliette Gréco....
...(I like the French company Houles’ extensive range of trimmings, particularly its Greco and Palais Royal braids, woven in Greek key patterns.) Embrace pelmets....
...Morgan Stanley is hiring UBS banker Emilio Greco to head its financial services M&A business in Italy. Read more here from Reuters....
...Mary Beard CLASSICIST The Torlonia Marbles are one of the greatest collections of Greco-Roman sculpture in the world (over 600 pieces, from a long line-up of severe Roman emperors to a clutch of languid...
...In “Bombardment”, his ingenious mash-up of Orozco and El Greco from 1937-38, Herculean bodies hurtle towards us, headlong, from the sky....
...Gwendoline and her sister Margaret used their wealth to amass an exceptional art collection, with works by artists including Turner, Manet, El Greco and Rodin....
...David Webb, American society jeweller of the ’60s and ’70s, was famous for his work with carved coral....
...David Abulafia and Sarah Dry each take very different approaches to the subject, one from the history of trade and exchange, the other scientific inquiry....
...“Lucian Freud: A Life”, compiled by Mark Holborn in collaboration with David Dawson, is published by Phaidon....
...Tropical Medicine Prof George Davey Smith Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Bristol Dr Eleanor Hutchinson Assistant professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Professor David...
...The latter are aspiring wrestlers, whose heroes, such as Balla Gaye, a superstar of lamb ji, a localised version of Greco-Roman wrestling, regularly pack stadiums....
...‘The Life of a Song: The fascinating stories behind 50 of the world’s best-loved songs’, edited by David Cheal and Jan Dalley, is published by Brewer’s Letter in response to this article: Trenet turned...
...You’ll find Greek sculpture, medieval stained glass, Titian and El Greco as well as Olmec heads, Mughal miniatures and Paul Gauguin in the programmes....
...Taking over a theatre in Greco, a disadvantaged suburb of Milan, Bottura asked artists including Mimmo Paladino to create a beautiful space....
...This, in turn, led to the invention of an Islamic “Golden Age” after which Renaissance Europe emerged as the true successor of Greco-Roman civilisation....
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