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...Octagons, for their part, are prominent in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, Buddhism, feng shui, Islamic art and, as Bulgari’s jewellery managing director Mauro di Roberto explains, in architecture reaching...
...The company has backing from Leonardo DiCaprio, who invested after working on Blood Diamond, the 2006 film that brought to light the exploitative conditions of the mining industry....
...Andrea di Boniauto’s unique “The Virgin and Child with Ten Saints” evokes precisely Florence’s Church of Santa Maria Novella, and was painted as a visual map of it....
...Sargent’s painting, made in 1885-86, is part of a long tradition taking in Leonardo Da Vinci, Van Gogh and Patrick Proctor....
...figures and niches modelled through pen and brown wash, with vibrant green and yellow watercolour distinguishing different sections, are rapid jottings for the decoration of the vault in Parma’s Santa Maria...
...The extraction bans won support from environmental groups such as Amazon Watch and Wildlife Conservation Society after a campaign backed by Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo....
...city’s mayor, officiated at the ribbon-cutting for Portrait Milano, the hotel-restaurant-retail complex which the seminary now houses — the culmination of a decade-long restoration project spearheaded by Leonardo...
...Take Leonardo Ferragamo, president of his family’s publicly traded fashion and accessories house, who oversees a nice line in hotels....
...Here Portaluppi designed a major insurance building with (yet another) triumphal arch making a big urban statement and framing the view of the Chiesa Santa Maria presso San Satiro....
...Sant’Eustorgio and Santa Maria delle Grazie are two of my favourites. The ’60s, ’70s and ’80s were alive with art and design, and Milan has many galleries to show for it....
...Stay: Hotel Lungarno, Leonardo Ferragamo’s classic on the river, a Michele Bonan-designed looker with a perfect bar that’s an easy walk from all five Saville venues....
...Maria Donato...
...Recently on Twitter, the actor and eco-warrior Leonardo DiCaprio, a regular visitor to Costa Rica, congratulated President Carlos Alvarado Quesada on expanding the marine protection around Cocos Island,...
...Between the Renaissance wonders of the Uffizi Gallery and Brunelleschi’s Duomo, homegrown visionaries including Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, and fashion legends such as Guccio Gucci and Salvatore...
...Two of Scorsese’s great leading men, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, combine forces in what will be a real statement release from rising streaming service Apple TV Plus....
...Rivera was having an affair with the actress and singer María Félix, of whom he had painted a passionate portrait, also in 1949....
...Yet even then there was no doubt that if any contemporary painter deserved to be regarded as the heir to Leonardo and Michelangelo, it was Saville....
...Travel Four new hotels for a great city break Maria Shollenbarger checks in to some chic staycation destinations in Los Angeles, London, Paris and Boston....
...Mondadori is no stranger to the world – her father, the late Leonardo Mondadori, was chairman of the Italian publishing giant Arnoldo Mondadori Editore....
...All this is pretty standard stuff — the dorky, insecure outsider who struggles to fit in — but what elevates Maria Scrivan’s graphic novel is the refreshing honesty with which it approaches its subject matter...
...Pinned on a door next to the bit of fresco was a poster for an exhibition: La botanica di Leonardo, exploring the Tuscan’s lesser-known botanical studies....
...Time alone in front of those Botticellis, Raphaels and Leonardos? Yes please. But walking a one-way system, at prescribed distances overseen by guards? Hmmm....
...though the Louvre lent two of its Leonardo masterpieces to the Milan Expo in 2015, and was expected to lend paintings by Raphael to a show at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome next year....
...Peter Burke’s The Polymath (Yale RRP£20, May) is subtitled “A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag”. Does anyone else find that a strange pairing of names?...
...The last music I bought was Leonardo García Alarcón’s production of Michelangelo Falvetti’s Nabucco....
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