Hints and tips:
...the Crimean war and, in another stage biopic, The Bridge Theatre launches David Hare’s latest muscular political statement, Straight Line Crazy, in which Ralph Fiennes plays the powerful American Robert Moses...
...Drive into Florence, for instance, and you can drop off your car at a garage to be valet parked outside the city and returned when you need it....
...This is a study of God appearing to Moses from 1513-14, reminiscent of Michelangelo’s muscular Creator from the vault of the Sistine Chapel in Rome....
...— with carefully chosen symbolism — the prophet Moses....
...So far 22 major museums are on board, from the Uffizi in Florence to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with 100 expected to be signed up by the launch date....
...… Saturday I am now in beautiful, sweltering Florence, where it’s hard to see the paintings for the tourists. I might as well not have gone to the Uffizi this afternoon....
...By the 1480s he was immersed in the artistic avanguardia of Florence and Urbino....
...In three juvenile paintings – “Saturn in Exile” (1496-98), “Moses’ Trial by Fire” (c1500) and “The Judgement of Solomon” (1498-1500) – the figures are small and crowded into the foreground....
...No, no - Florence, Roberto told me excitedly, needs to be rebranded as a “cultural centre”. Scusi? This is Florence, Italy, we’re talking about, not Florence, South Carolina....
...Even better, these letters were written for an equally controversial genius, the ageing art historian Bernard Berenson, lodged in his villa, I Tatti, outside Florence....
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