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...These stellar paintings — Raphael’s foundational power portrait “Pope Julius II” (1511); Rubens’ tumultuous “Rape of the Sabine Women” (c1635-40); Claude’s “Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba...
...When Madrid was named capital by King Felipe II in the 16th century, it became a melting pot of cultures....
...She highlights a 19th-century picture, Lady on a Swing, estimated at £15,000-£20,000, where the lady sits waiting for her lover – her nervousness depicted by a stormy sky....
...“I’m not a shell lover, to me they’re a medium. I enjoy working with natural materials in unusual ways,” she says....
...For many film lovers, the name forever speaks of things that have not been good for cinema: infantilisation, branded tat....
...Freud was really stalking the five-century western figurative tradition, and positioning himself within an endeavour which, when he started out in postwar London, everyone else believed was finished....
...At the precise moment that we’re up to our eyeballs in instant, digital imagery, a new cohort of art lovers is being drawn to what can be an exciting, even moving, experience as well as a gratifying investment...
...The formula hasn’t evolved much in the tradition’s near 200-year history: sandwiches, sweets, scones — and tea. Job done....
...This article is part of a guide to London from FT Globetrotter A city break for film lovers: imagine that. You can tour the real locations of classic scenes, of course....
...Hellraiser, father, traitor, friend, lover, spy. The grandfather I knew, and the man I never will....
...The painting “Summer Morning II”, by 48-year-old Korean artist Dongwook Suh, was made in 2021 and it seems to me to represent much of what many of us have felt in recent times....
...Ryde House, a Grade II-listed late-Georgian country house in the nearby South Downs National Park....
...This suggests than rather being a niche product for history lovers, this combination of the old and the new has a more mainstream appeal....
...Ours, Suite II, was a blissfully quiet one-bedroom unit, overlooking an untidy garden at the back, and so beautifully decorated it was almost tempting to stay put....
...In figurative painting postwar and beyond, Britain, building on empirical traditions of attention to observation, individuality, resistance to theory, is distinctive and world class....
...While deep traditions need to evolve, desirable quality requires consistency....
...The result was an art-house tradition focused not on the box office but on cinematography and directors testing what they could get away with....
...Strawberry Hill is acknowledged as having inspired a tradition of camp Gothic....
...According to A Arnold, writing in The Wide World Magazine in 1900, the count worshipped the peaks “as a lover might a mistress”....
...He located this invention “between the end of the ‘Chatterley’ ban/and The Beatles’ first LP”. Few people will remember or care about the removal of the censorship of D.H....
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...Blackmailed lovers, childhood tragedies, all human frailty is depicted with exquisite, pinpoint detail....
...Told by an abbot to ponder, he did so and opted instead to continue the family tradition....
...It’s a chance for MOCA to show its range: De Kooning’s “Two Women with Still Life”, Giacometti’s “Tall Figure II and III” and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Man with Folded Arms” are among the highlights....
...Friends and lovers – sometimes painted from life, though you wouldn’t know it – have identikit bland faces and offhand stances....
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