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...Raphael’s “Moses”, the prophet kneeling, shielding his eyes from the burning bush, is a model for the fresco in the Vatican’s Stanza di Eliodoro, and “Group of Soldiers”, marching up rough-hewn steps for...
...in which his wife Olga, heavy and sombre, resembles both a melancholy statue emerging from shadows, the pinks and whites of flesh tones and dress shrouded in grey, and the mournful draped figure in the fresco...
...Summer Series at Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane – until 25 August Make the most of the city’s al-fresco drinking and dining waterholes before the inevitable exodus indoors come autumn....
...Empire crinoline, he claims bourgeois grandeur as heir to the antique muses: Inès Moitessier, a banker’s wife, seated on her throne-like rose settee, is as coolly impassive as the goddess in the Herculaneum fresco...
...Allied bombs destroyed Tiepolo’s grandiloquent ceiling fresco for Milan’s Palazzo Archinto in 1943....
...Child” is an intricate pen/brown ink arrangement of some dozen figures where 21-year-old Titian, breaking from the stillness and restraint of his teacher Bellini, choreographs an early commission for a fresco...
...Mantegna was still a teenager, a carpenter’s entrepreneurial son, when he painted a fresco cycle for the Ovetari Chapel in Padua’s Eremitani Church....
...Here he has painted large-scale new portraits in his fresco-like manner, fleeting, remote, eerily still faces recalling Egyptian Fayum portraits, their mistiness and fading grace echoing Palazzo Pisani’s...
...The gorgeous angel of the reverie, forked tongue of hair rhyming with fading pink coat tails, surges through the sky-blue fresco....
...The Louvre’s elaborately worked, psychologically complex red chalk “Psyche presenting to Venus the vase of Proserpine” is a sketch for a fresco for Agostino Chigi’s villa, the Farnesina....
...The earliest sheets are Pisanello’s study for a hanged man, a studio assistant posed with tilted head and bound hands, for the fresco “St George and the Princess” (1434-38); works displaying Florentine mastery...
..., “Eiaha ohipa (Ne pas travailler)” — are installed as an immersive fresco, suggestive, as Shchukin wanted, of church interiors....
...The 2015 prize (declaration: I was a judge) goes to an artist I have long admired, Shanti Panchal, for “Artist and the Lost Studio”, a fresco-like, large watercolour built up by slowly loading colour on...
...The flat, fresco-like effect gives detachment and a cloistered hush, which feels unsettling rather than serene....
...during the 1930s economic slump and arranged in his Hampstead mansion to emphasise plurality: Cézanne’s “Bathers” next to Luca della Robbia’s white-glazed majolica “Christ Before Pilate”; a Quattrocento fresco...
...Spencer went to war with small volumes of reproductions of his favourite artists, Fra Angelico, Giotto and Masaccio, stuffed into the pockets of his military uniform, and Renaissance fresco cycles were in...
...Jackie Wullschlager Architecture African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence, edited by Manuel Herz, Park Books, RRP€68 Documenting the grand, optimistic architecture of the post-independence...
...Smith’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel is a tale of two halves: in one, teenage George, trying to cope with her mother’s sudden death, finds herself obsessing about their trip to Ferrara to see a certain fresco...
...For business, I’ll wear a lightweight “fresco” wool suit, unlined with plenty of pockets....
...“The fun of the fair as usual, is in the aisles,” wrote FT visual arts critic Jackie Wullschlager last year....
...and Wirth offers an intensely curated pitch for older and dead women artists – a 1960 Eva Hesse painting, a Louise Bourgeois fabric piece, the tormented canvas “Mourning” by Maria Lassnig (aged 92) and a fresco-like...
...Jackie Wullschlager, FT art critic …………………………………………………………….....
...Emphatic, slashing brushwork points to paint as the central issue in the news item but, joining a play of styles – cartoon animation, antique, fresco-like flatness, naive storytelling – gorgeously muddled...
...Endless Prayers: YZ Kami, currently at Parasol Unit, introduces UK audiences to the exceptional fresco-like, existential portraits and abstract Sufi-influenced collages of this important Iranian artist....
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s visual arts critic and author of ‘Chagall: Love and Exile’ (Allen Lane)...
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