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...Approaching the 50th anniversary of Edward Said’s seminal Orientalism, our undergraduates certainly don’t lack for cultural relativism or calls for decolonisation....
...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....
...(I like the French company Houles’ extensive range of trimmings, particularly its Greco and Palais Royal braids, woven in Greek key patterns.) Embrace pelmets....
...Edward Luce FT US NATIONAL EDITOR Angrynomics is that rare pre-Covid-19 manuscript that has been made more relevant by the virus — and now Joe Biden’s coming presidency....
...His jaunty and somewhat naive sketches of Greco-Roman busts and frolicking boys are easily and immediately identifiable as his own work....
...Curator Edward Payne suggests that “the prominence given to the open wound reveals the artist’s preoccupation with the act of skinning....
...It was last sold for £3,850 to the collector Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, but is now expected to fetch more than £25m....
...They only cost around €1,200 but are really well-painted, with a touch of El Greco about them. An object I would never part with is my camera, a Canon 5D with a 50mm lens....
...But, from 1547, during the reign of the boy-king, Edward VI, a much more aggressive onslaught was launched on all images equated with “idolatry”....
...“My father [Edward, Earl of Leicester], in his 30-year tenure of running Holkham, started the process of returning all the paintings to their original hang.”...
...Sotheby’s has taken a “compare and contrast” strategy in its preview by making unexpected juxtapositions such as El Greco’s “The Crucifixion” (1600; est. £3m-£5m) with a 1959 Soulages (est. £2m-£3m), or...
...Like the step-by-step Muybridge photographs of Greco-Roman wrestling that inspired the dance, Lonesome Cowboy approaches an essentially violent subject with cool dispassion....
...He furnished it with an estimated $200m worth of paintings by such greats as Picasso, Modigliani, Renoir, Matisse, Van Gogh, El Greco, Chagall and Dalí....
...Even so, El Greco was the artist who inspired David Bomberg to transform his art in 1929....
...The Doubtful GuestTraverse Theatre Hoipolloi theatre company dramatises Edward Gorey’s darkly comic tale of a bizarre house guest – “something standing on top of an urn/Whose peculiar appearance gave them...
...After the war, they influenced surrealism, the shell-shocked cityscapes of Grosz and Dix, and even Edward Hopper’s shadows and silences....
...Edward Hopper…” Thank goodness for film, the common language of the world. And thank goodness for filmmakers, who know that in the arts, at least, the border crossings are open for business....
...On the right, the three-light candelabra (converted from Colza oil to electricity) radiate from urn-like vases and are supported by cranes – a symbol of vigilance in Greco-Roman ornament. £180,000-200,000...
...Sitting in front of El Greco’s “Christ Carrying the Cross” in the magnificent Robert Lehman collection, a German tourist informed his wife that the reason El Greco’s figures were so elongated was that he...
...Nor should the Persians be regarded as excessively bellicose, despite the notoriety of the Greco-Persian wars under Darius and Xerxes....
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