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...But I did wonder about the choice of painting, for as Van Gogh wrote to Theo, the view is what he saw “through the iron bars of the isolation cell” at the asylum in Saint-Rémy....
...One of my favourite places to seek peace and perspective is the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries, just off the Place de la Concorde....
...I’m not sure I want a tiger trompe-l’oeil in my cupboard or a knitted cake stand in my room....
...The little windows glint behind their original iron bars as the sun flashes between passing grey clouds. The real surprise comes inside, through a new entrance in the middle of the civil wing....
...The clouds are lined in pink and the pale stone of the medieval wall that still seems to be protecting this house is glowing....
...Núria Costa, head of communications at l’Institut de Mercats de Barcelona, walks me through a surging mass of excited shoppers....
...Fail better,” Samuel Beckett advised, and no space in the world invites artists to do so more flamboyantly than the 45-metre-high nave of glass and wrought iron at the Grand Palais in Paris, home to the...
...“Si, si,” the men said, ushering us forwards, before shaking our hands and driving off, leaving us standing, agog, in front of a pair of enormous wrought-iron gates to which, for two nights, we were to keep...
...depiction of clouds of steam from a locomotive passing the cutting by Hausmann’s new boulevards is a high point of impressionism....
...Related links: Revisiting Autonomy’s Iron Mountain deal – FT Alphaville Head in the clouds at Autonomy – FT Alphaville...
...Indeed, the key evolution here is between the 1920s and 1930s, when Miró’s work darkened with the clouds of fascism....
...He retained the brick building’s blackened floorboards and whitewashed walls, decorating with iron candelabras and rustic-chic wooden benches....
...Not a cloud dotted the sky; February 11 was a fine day for fishing....
...He was an overachieving dilettante whose enthusiasms propelled him towards ever-greater invention, and who left behind a cloud of dissipated talent and potential not quite met....
...In the central gallery, outstanding international loans – Manet’s melancholy woman and child against prison-like railings in “The Railway”, Caillebotte’s anonymous figures crushed by a world of iron brought...
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