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...Other high-profile targets have included Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” and works by Goya in Madrid’s Prado....
...Artists featured include Georges Adéagbo and Efrén Álvarez....
...To be able to walk in 15 minutes from the Thyssen museum to the Reina Sofia, a route that also passes the Prado and CaixaForum, is a real privilege....
...I went to the Prado last time I was in Madrid with my artist friend Alex Da Corte....
...Best yet, it’s all available online and can be shipped internationally. shop.zeitzmocaa.museum Rima Suqi Prado Museum, Madrid The Prado’s main shop, Tienda Prado, isn’t exactly charming in itself, possessing...
...There’ll be a subterranean spa across four floors of the hotel’s huge basement, a 22-metre pool and its restaurant will be the first outpost of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s ABC Kitchen outside New York....
...Covered with gilt and dimly lit with candles . . . powerful or banal/Monuments of riches or repression . . . the Escorial/Cold for ever within like the heart of Philip . . . and in the Prado half/Wit princes...
...The artist’s son-in-law Georges Duthuit wrote of the 20th century’s greatest colourist: “There is a lot more black than one may think in this luminous painting . . ....
...Scala and Marullus are believed to have inspired characters in George Eliot’s 1863 novel Romola....
...Returning from the Louvre and the Prado, these are outstanding highlights....
...The pre-Christmas arrival from the Prado of Juan Bautista Maino’s 10ft altarpieces “The Adoration of the Shepherds” and “The Adoration of the Kings” brings to London’s National Gallery its most majestic,...
...When I asked to join the gallery’s George Beaumont Group (minimum entry: £3,000 a year), I was told there was a waiting list....
...This was demonstrated by the construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou in the centre of Paris in 1977, a head-spinning architectural masterpiece by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano....
...Verona’s four-metre “The Martyrdom of St George” is a stage set, inviting us to look up past the altar to the saint, kneeling to be beheaded, then to follow his gaze through ultramarine skies to a heavenly...
...Juan Jose Prado Gareth: The global economy values and requires experience and skills as well as technical knowledge....
...George Pendle is author of ‘Death: A Life’ (Three Rivers Press)...
...“Angel” (1500) has Perugino’s sweetness and regularity of design, “St George” (1503-05) proves an innate narrative flair....
...He’s saying no to cuts in public spending,” said Julie Castanier, a Young Communist party activist, as she stood in the Prado crowd....
...New chief executive Georges Plassat will shortly set out a fresh plan for arresting the decline in the company’s European hypermarket sales....
...Museo del Prado A visit to the Prado, one of the world’s oldest and best art galleries, used to be an austere affair....
...Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz once left the Prado after viewing “Las Meninas” with the remark: “Now we go to have a real Spanish lunch, but they stay: and that is the terror of Spanish painting!”...
...range from Kurtág’s exquisitely crafted Kafka Fragments, for soprano and violin, to a rare complete performance of minimalist pioneer Steve Reich’s (pictured left) Drumming, attended by the composer, and George...
...L’Arlésienne makes its Scala debut, based on the play by Alphonse Daudet, and set to music by Georges Bizet. Serata Petit runs until September 17....
...Then Prado, Madrid, February 3-April 19; Metropolitan Museum, New York, May 18-August 16. Sponsored by Bank of America...
...The world’s greatest museums – the Louvre, Hermitage, Prado – began as lavish civilisation-is-power statements by monarchs and emperors; private individuals did not emerge as significant museum patrons before...
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