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...These range from oils of Charles II’s mistress to Grand Tour collectables to troves of 18th-century porcelain....
...How we engage with the prospect of its death is the core of Joseph Wright’s eerily compelling “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” (Room 34)....
...The villains range from the drunken American chief prosecutor, Joseph Keenan, to the openly racist European and Australian judges, to the robotic Soviet officials whose forces were meanwhile imprisoning...
...The interiors were recreated to Mackintosh’s original design during a restoration of the Grade II*-listed house, completed in 2003....
...Brothers Anton and Joseph Hemmerle established the company in 1893, after purchasing an existing goldsmiths that completed orders for the Bavarian royal court....
...In the left-hand panel, Joseph (we think it is him) crouches over a meagre fire, drying the nappies....
...Joseph Sissens kicks and swivels through his dazzling opening soliloquy. Calvin Richardson brings down the curtain with a solo that swirls and shimmies with boneless ease....
...Benedict XVI, the former pope who has died at the age of 95, was fated from the day of his election in April 2005 to labour under the long shadow of John Paul II, his celebrated predecessor....
...Look a little more closely, and on her right side were three vintage diamond brooches from New York-based jewellery dealer Joseph Saidian & Sons....
...objectives are not only permanent territorial conquest in Ukraine but the reconstruction of Russian society on a permanent, non-western basis, reversing a trend that has proceeded in fits and starts since Joseph...
...But I am reminded of Joseph Schumpeter’s observation: “Pessimistic views about a thing always seem to the public to be more ‘profound’ than optimistic ones.” DR Myddelton London W9, UK...
...The statue has been Grade II listed by the government, blocking its removal....
...Now we have Russian politician Vyacheslav Nikonov, determined to outdo the fanaticism of his grandfather, Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin’s henchman....
...Benedict, formally known as the pope emeritus, became the first German pope in 1,000 years when he was elected to the papacy in April 2005 following the death of the popular Pope John Paul II....
...During Joseph Stalin’s ascendancy after Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin kept a sharp eye on those who expressed concerns about him....
...The then-King Baudouin of Belgium spoke first, saying that the independence was the result of “the genius of King Léopold II”....
...Article II of this convention is unambiguous on the subject....
...“L’heure des bleus”, the opening section, pairs a group of Monet’s water gardens with Mitchell’s fluid panorama “Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas”....
...Monday Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and five well-known members of the Democratic Front are due to appear in a court in West Kowloon, accused of failing to properly register a humanitarian fund...
...“If I hadn’t gone to the castles of Ludwig II in Bavaria when I was eight — and I lived and still live in Paris in a district built by Haussmann — maybe some things would have been different.”...
...Honours have flowed his way: he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017 and made a member of the prestigious Order of Merit last November by King Charles III....
...The Getty was the obvious international candidate; the family has given tens of millions to museums, including Britain’s National Gallery, and J Paul Getty II became a British citizen and was knighted before...
...The reply to Joseph Stalin’s question how many divisions has the Pope (Letters, January 12) was provided by the reception John Paul II received in Warsaw in 1983 when his homeland was under martial law....
...curve was paired with Enignum II Locus chairs, overlooked by a gigantic ribbon-like sculpture....
...image of him that had endured into the fin-de-siècle was that of a rebel, known for suing clients for higher pay and for falling out of favour with powerful would-be patrons (most significantly Philip II...
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