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...Joseph curls up asleep. Small devils scurry away....
...Paintings include “The Last Communion of Saint Jerome”, from the studio of Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), priced at $750,000....
...Online auction, 18 January to 1 February; christies.com Gems from a François-Joseph Graf interior on Lake Geneva One of François-Joseph Graf’s first projects after launching his eponymous interior-design...
...A pair of Botticelli-inspired high sandals with two large silver embossed leather seashells encasing the toes, caught my eye. I sighed....
...In the brilliant Nativity tondo (1482-85), on loan from the nearby Gardner Museum, her marmoreal limbs unfold beside Joseph’s sun-browned brawn....
...Behind centre, S Joseph, in brown, right, a woman with a basket in a doorway; dark sky and angel with scroll above....
...This drawing is not one of his refined evocations of feminine beauty, like the exquisite “Allegory of Abundance” in the British Museum but is, instead, a late study for a sculptural, seated St Joseph, resting...
...Courtauld academics will be on hand for a series of talks on the collection’s highlights, ranging from Botticelli to Kokoschka....
...Christof Loy’s new production of Gluck’s great tragic opera stars Véronique Gens as the anguished Alceste and Joseph Kaiser as her husband Admete, King of Thessaly....
...The actors donate their services, and the complete cast list isn’t revealed until the night itself but past participants have included Gael García Bernal, Saffron Burrows, Joseph Fiennes and Vince Vaughn...
...Or that that the model for Botticelli’s Venus, a Florentine girl called Simonetta, was wooed (but not won) by Amerigo Vespucci, who discovered South America?...
...Now marking its centenary, Everyman was founded by Victorian bookbinder and autodidact Joseph Dent, whose aim was to offer world classics in quality pocket versions for one shilling....
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