Hints and tips:
...At Horacio’s, the oldest of them, I talk to Henry González, whose grandfather started a vehicle repair shop nearby more than 70 years ago....
...Bernardo Bellotto’s early oil painting, “View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi” (1745-47), will be offered for between £12m and £18m....
...La Perla ai Bisatei, Campo S Bernardo 7 (+390-4173 9528). Osteria ai Cacciatori, Fondamenta dei Vetrai 69 (+390-4173 9845). Peggy Guggenheim Collection, guggenheim-venice.it....
...Works include a portrait of Henry VIII by an associate of Hans Holbein the Younger, sold at Christie’s in 1788; two riverscapes of London by Canaletto; and Francis Bacon’s agonised “Three Studies for a Self-portrait...
...During his two sojourns in Italy, Henry Howard, the fourth Earl of Carlisle, bought or commissioned more than 40 views of Venice to ornament Castle Howard....
...The VW camper van, born in Wolfsburg, and to die in São Bernardo do Campo, leaves one descendant in the VW Transporter, a reliable, efficient medium-sized van, but one that is decidedly more local plumber...
...Marco Bellocchio never went international like his contemporary Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor). He avoided the sudden blaze and extinction of Pier Paolo Pasolini....
...His interest in art was possibly sparked when he was a student by his friendship with Henry Aldrich, a keen print buyer who was dean of Christ Church....
...Francesco Rosi made great political histories, The Mattei Affair (1972) and Lucky Luciano (1973), and Bernardo Bertolucci depicted fascist Italy in The Conformist (1970)....
...A Short Gentleman By Jon Canter Jonathan Cape £12.99, 384 pages Canter wrote scripts for comedians Lenny Henry, Dawn French and Griff Rhys Jones before he turned to fiction....
...Nine Nights By Bernardo CarvalhoTranslated by Benjamin Moser Vintage £7.99, 224 pages FT bookshop price: £6.39 Why did an American ethnographer commit suicide on an Amazonian research trip?...
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