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...Uncovered: Florence B Price Catalyst Quartet (Azica) The time has surely come to discover the wonderfully enriching string quartets of Florence Price, the African-American composer who died in 1953 after...
...According to Vasari, when Michelangelo was away in Florence, midway through the painting, Bramante let Raphael into the Sistine Chapel to have a look....
...Anthony Luzzatto Gardner Florence, Italy US Ambassador to the EU, 2014-17 Letters in response to this letter: Anglo-Saxon attitudes / From Perry Aldred, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, UK Getting Trump back...
...A happy opera ending sparks #MeToo debate in Italy — James Politi reflects on how a production of Carmen in Florence has ignited a country where traditional gender roles die hard....
...In the brilliant Nativity tondo (1482-85), on loan from the nearby Gardner Museum, her marmoreal limbs unfold beside Joseph’s sun-browned brawn....
...Third, the Florence speech in September said there would be a stand-still transition for a couple of years while the UK gets its act together....
...Mrs May, for her part, has failed to deliver on some of the promises made in her Florence speech....
...The prices reveal the beginning of the rise in Botticelli’s reputation, soon transformed internationally through Pre-Raphaelite infatuation: in 1899 Isabella Stewart Gardner paid £13,000 for the “Chigi Madonna...
...It reminds Cone – of course it does – of the evening Ava Gardner came to dinner at their London flat. “She asked Stanley to show her the bathroom. He took her upstairs, and she tried to seduce him....
...Robin Allen, former Gulf correspondent of the Financial Times, died last week in Florence, peacefully in his sleep. He was 70....
...A stroll through the central market near San Lorenzo shows that Florence remains a contender as offal capital of Italy....
...Higonnet’s entertaining subjects range from Isabella Stewart Gardner to the de Menils and Ronald Lauder....
...Five Minds for the Future By Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press £14.99, 196 pages FT bookshop price: £11.99 Harvard psychologist Prof Gardner continues his exploration of the different “intelligences...
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