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...The Joan Miró-esque patterns reference González’s Galician roots, says Mesguich. It was in the 20th century that mosaics had another renaissance....
...At one end of the contemporary art spectrum is Marisa Bellani, whose gallery Roman Road now runs exhibitions nomadically....
...Everyone from the Pharaohs to the Romans mixed tin with metals such as lead, copper and bismuth to create everyday objects for the table....
...Co-founders Simon Showman and Barry Franks and chief executive Andrew Gossage hold 41 per cent of the shares....
...“I found him to excel in the rational sciences,” reported one Arab ambassador, “and he is distinguished among all the Franks for his talents, his intelligence and his taste for philosophy, logic and medicine...
...And I loved writing it with Roman [Coppola] and Jason [Schwartzman], and I loved our cast, and I loved our animators and puppet makers, too.”...
...Zelenskyy met Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz, president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other officials a day after visiting Rome to meet Italian leaders and Pope Francis....
...It’s in the name, which is derived from Ursaria (as the city was called in Roman times, back when the region was popular with bears), the black and white photographs of 1920s-40s Madrid by Diego González...
...The word salary comes from the “salarium” (salt) that Roman soldiers were often paid in rather than money....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Félix González-Torres, the Cuban-born American conceptual artist....
...Gonzalez says this is to protect sensitive client data. Frank Mugisha, a former Sama employee from Uganda, has another explanation....
...FRANK Uh-huh, what, the pension-fund guys? KENDALL Yeah. What do they think of me, Frank?...
...Madagascar New brand Nissaba’s Grande Île (€160 for 100ml) is created by perfumer Frank Voelkl (the nose behind Le Labo’s Santal 33) and is a Malagasy pepper and vanilla evocation of Madagascar....
...“Russia’s decision to mobilise is a frank admission that their personnel army, which was prepared for decades to take over a foreign country, could not stand it and crumbled,” Zelenskyy said....
...Over the weekend, Russian state television anchors spoke of fierce fighting in the east, while pro-war reporters and bloggers wrote frank posts online about the rout. “Well, brothers and sisters....
...In the ruins of the Roman forum she lifts her skirt above her head to defiantly expose herself; in Empúries, the ancient Mediterranean city, she stands bathed in moonlight, naked on a rock....
...Last March, sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was spotted house-hunting on the Palm Jumeirah....
...mosaics, to Felix González-Torres’s memento mori of a slipping pile of Bazooka bubblegum packets, “Untitled (Welcome Back Heroes)”, created during the Gulf war in 1991....
...When I visit, the local wine of the evening is from near the Roman town of Segovia....
...Earlier this year a US investor group led by Todd Boehly agreed to buy London-based Chelsea for £2.5bn, after its Russian oligarch owner Roman Abramovich was hit with sanctions by the UK and the EU....
...In Roman mythology, what creature is half human, half goat? Which novelist was born at Berkhamsted school on October 2 1904? In which recently formed county did Queen Victoria die?...
...Forshaw surmises that “what the author was probably trying to suggest is that these novels reflect disturbing aspects of life in a frank and unflinching way”....
...Magne (built on the foundations of a pre-Roman tower)....
...Two weeks ago, Roman Abramovich was portraying himself as a peacemaker after flying into Belarus to help broker a truce between Russia and Ukraine....
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