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...The flowers look like they have been tossed into the air, or onto a stage at a Maria Callas performance,” says Johnson Hartig, founder and creative director of the fashion label Libertine....
...February 14 to May 6; further information and tickets here ‘Sargent and Fashion’ at Tate Britain Discover how John Singer Sargent used fabric and fashion in his paintings to capture identity and individuality...
...Captured in the soft light of a north window, with hog-hair brushes and in the manner of John Singer Sargent, the life-sized portrait is at once theatrical and calm....
...It drew socialites from New York, among them Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt, who suffered from bouts of malaria....
...In “María on the Beach at Biarritz, or Backlight, Biarritz”, Sorolla uses the whitest of flowing summer frocks as counterpoint to myriad shades of reflections on the sea....
...Lisbon’s Calouste Gulbenkian Museum lends the unexpected, scale-defying “The Church of Santa Maria della Salute”, the massive bulk of the cathedral daringly obscured and overwhelmed by a rhythmic design...
...It’s years since I’ve seen it but there’s a magnificent Sargent of Santa Maria della Salute in the Johannesburg Art Gallery....
...Society. £100, hunterboots.com 9 For pre-fall, Erdem offers a collection of gowns made with the society sitters of John Singer Sargent in mind....
...(Greg Sargent, WaPo) Pessimism might not be a winning formula for GOP (John Harwood, NYT) Is Trump the man’s man America wants?...
...That truth of feeling about Venice’s tremulous beauty made the city irresistible, after Turner, as motif and metaphor for the poignancy of old-age creativity: Monet, Sargent, Thomas Mann, Henry James....
...World Child Cancer was founded in 2007 by the late Geoff Thaxter and colleagues from his time at the UK’s largest children’s cancer charity, Clic Sargent....
...Sorolla’s poetic, semi-impressionist style stamped him in the mould of that other Belle Epoque master, John Singer Sargent....
...You see that at once in the opening room, which is dominated by Van Dyck’s sparkling portraits of Charles I and Henrietta Maria....
...Sargent Shriver, John F....
...“Entrance to Santa Maria della Salute”, depicting a fragment of the steps, a shimmering, acutely angled stone façade and marble saints bearing down with the force of living beings, reminds you that Sargent...
...And since she was born into the Kennedy family in the US and married Sargent Shriver, a Democratic vice-presidential nominee, hers was one of the most exceptional and powerful families of the 20th century...
...In front is the 17th-century Church of Santa Maria della Salute, painted by Turner, Sargent and Canaletto among others. Wide, empty steps lead down towards the water. I can hear it lapping....
...One of his most realised versions of the Infanta Margarita Maria hangs opposite one of Velázquez’s own numerous studies of her....
...Often he depicted famous Venetian monuments – the baroque church of Santa Maria della Salute, the Ducal Palace, the San Marciano Library – as little more than blurry backdrops to the complex rigging of sailing...
...His sister, Maria, is a former NBC News presenter now married to Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s governor. There is no better background for a conscience capitalist....
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