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...According to Aoife Brady, the NGI’s curator of Italian and Spanish art, the painting is a “real prestige piece” that was probably intended to wow visitors at the opulent court of Alfonso d’Este in Ferrara...
...Este in 1558....
...He was like, ‘There is a force d’inertie.’”...
...I wonder what he made of human additions such as the thundering water-powered organ at Villa d’Este near Rome, woodland xylophones, sound baths, aeolian harps and wind chimes....
...This month alone, watch brands will be flying their corporate colours at events ranging from the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este (A Lange & Söhne) to the Monaco Grand Prix (Tag Heuer) and the all-electric...
...Passing through further hands, it was eventually restored to its original condition and exhibited at two of the world’s leading concours d’élégance events, Pebble Beach in California and Villa d’Este in...
...To the left, along the Costa del Este, modern tower blocks thrust up into the sky, glinting with the soft lighting of myriad penthouse suites....
...Stella sent me this one a few years ago; I have used it ever since. adidas.co.uk Princesse d’Isenbourg caviar, from £49.45My favourite luxurious comfort food has to be mashed potato with sour cream and...
...Lucrezia’s new husband, Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, has taken her to a chilly fortress where, she believes, “he intends to kill her”....
...“I felt like I’d found a secret place nobody else knew about.”...
...Villa d’Este, my hotel, is one of the grandest buildings on one of Europe’s most celebrated lakes....
...While his empire of hotels and gastronomia now extends from Punta del Este to Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, Brazil still feels like where Fasano does Fasano best....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is dulce de leche from Punta del Este in Uruguay....
...Sales also seemed at a quieter pace, though Magnum did well, including with Antoine d’Agata’s thermal camera record of the lockdown in Paris, which sold for €8,200 to a UK buyer....
...For those who want to pursue the terroir dream all the way to Mexico, the late Tomas Estes and his son Jesse, together with distiller Carlos Camarena, pioneered single-estate and single-field tequila in...
...Being Cantonese myself, I must say that chef Tak’s dishes, such as fried pork stomach, steamed rice in lotus leaf and stuffed crab shell, were the most delicate I’d ever tasted — apart, of course, from the...
...That early passion for the quirky art of Ferrara persisted, as witnessed by two from a frieze of 10 canvases painted by Dosso Dossi for Alfonso d’Este ($3m-$5m)....
...Este, his Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae....
...But if Aarons’ oeuvre errs on the ubiquitous, “Edward Quinn’s beautiful images are not very well known,” says Estes....
...Este....
...He bestows similar autonomy on Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, a drawing of whom, made in 1500, is also on show....
...The company also has a home decor venture (again, so far kept pretty quiet): it recently redid Villa Cima, in the heart of the legendary Villa d’Este hotel on Lake Como in Italy....
...The US shale war II could see US crude production peaking in May and not crossing the 13mb/d mark ever again (even by 2025). The call on OPEC could rise by 3mb/d by 2025....
...Where I’m going: Sara Wheeler I’m looking to my next book and I’d like to go somewhere I can sit still for a while and just explore a small area....
...In Patagonia, we’d driven a thousand miles along the Carretera Austral, the still substantially unpaved road that snakes through the less-visited Aysén region....
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