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...Jacques-Louis David’s “The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries” was painted in 1812, not 1804 as incorrectly stated in the Life & Arts essay on Napoleon in art on November 25....
...The cover is borrowed from Jacques-Louis David’s handsome painting, which hangs in the National Gallery of Art (admission free). I loathed Ridley Scott’s disappointing film, a catastrophe!...
...And this has seen prices spiral – some Jacques Sélosse vintages now tip £2,000 a bottle in retail....
...“Investors in the US are convinced that the US tech sector cannot be challenged,” said his colleague Jacques-Aurélien Marcireau, who has been covering global technology for 15 years....
...We are the children of kings and queens of Africa, of great generals who fought for freedom, he argues over an anthemic wash of synthesiser, before celebrating Haitian revolution leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines...
...There isn’t a greater political painting than Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat, in which one leader of the French Revolution lies slain at the hands of another....
...At the RA, Winckelmann hangs alongside Kauffman’s portrait of David Garrick, which made her name in Britain (she lived in London from 1766 to 1781)....
...Such was the typical reaction among many of my peers at my all-boys north London comprehensive school to any mention of David Bowie....
...Take the rugged trunk and irregular forms captured in majestic, tilting close-up in Jan Siberechts’ “Study of an Old Gnarled Oak” — or Antwerp’s marketplace one autumn morning in Jacques Jordaens’ rapid...
...Omar, who was alleged to have funded the presidential campaign of French politicians, including Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, was quoted as saying of the symbiotic relations: “Gabon without France...
...Early fans included Jack Nicholson, while the great Canadian maverick David Cronenberg would later speak warmly of Kent’s formative influence on him....
...With his Fide international rating of 2719, Vitiugov ranks ahead of David Howell (2676), Michael Adams (2662) and the currently inactive Matthew Sadler (2694)....
...Others, including Anat Ebgi, White Cube, Stephen Friedman, Alison Jacques and Selma Feriani, took advantage of the availability of real estate since the pandemic to grow their global footprints....
...“Demand [for cognac] is pretty soft in the US,” LVMH CFO Jean-Jacques Guiony told analysts....
...Ostin bought both of the Magrittes privately from another entertainment executive, David Geffen, in 1979 and 1990 respectively. Ostin’s works come to market without a pre-arranged guarantee of sale....
...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...In 2021, Jacques Audiard made Paris’s 13th arrondissement the centre of an uplifting love story about the city’s youth in Les Olympiades....
...Says gallerist Alison Jacques: “The key for me is Jane’s use of artificial light....
...Saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart consistently engaged with his syncopated fluency, warm sound and biting attack, and was equally at ease on the grooves that supported him....
...is sitting in one of the grand downstairs rooms that will host works by the 20th-century French interior designer Jean Royère, Charlotte Perriand and Swiss sculptor Diego Giacometti, courtesy of Galerie Jacques...
...But then so did the paintings of the same subject by Jacques-Louis David. Napoleon wasn’t, or wasn’t just, a conqueror. He was, over and above all else, history’s greatest bureaucrat....
...Heilbronn’s Surrealism: Worlds in Dialogue features David Lynch’s hallucinatory films, Cindy Sherman’s masquerade photographs. Why is Surrealism so fertile and fascinating?...
...During our lunch, he hums a line or two of “Frère Jacques”. He sings a lyric from a pop song that his mother wrote in the 1950s. He chants a bit of a 12th-century choral work....
...And when in 1766 David Hume commissioned portraits of himself and his fellow philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau from the Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, he set philosophy and painting in collision, raising...
...In David Hare’s 1995 play Skylight, one character cooked an entire spaghetti bolognese live on stage every night....
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