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...Paintings of the Madonna were placed behind curtains that divided the sacred from the profane worlds....
...Dates to be announced; further information here soon August Events La Madonna della Neve Every August 5, Rome celebrates La Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows) by recreating a miraculous summer...
...And not just any outfit, but a bra top, like the one made famous by Madonna....
...exhibition juxtaposing pioneers of the first Parisian avant-garde in the 1860s-80s demonstrated the Orsay in full force: Manet’s “The Balcony” and Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”, Manet’s “Olympia” and Degas’s “L’...
...Finally, the Salle de l’Horloge returns to the show’s Renaissance origins with the Capodimonte’s choicest drawings, led by two life-size charcoal and black-chalk cartoons....
...L’Oréal: Its $2.5bn acquisition of luxury Australian soap maker Aesop is Nicolas Hieronimus’s boldest strategic move as the French group’s chief executive....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...Segal, whose clients have included superstars like Drake and Madonna, is rich enough himself these days that he’s a client of Goldman Sachs....
...A priest wove through the crowd, kissing babies, as the simulacrums of the risen Jesus and the Madonna, held high above the spectators, approached each other; then fireworks showered the procession with...
...French audiences were hostile; in 1914 Cubism’s apologist Guillaume Apollinaire was fired as art critic of L’Intransigeant for praising Archipenko....
...The venue has also played host to major players such as Roberta Flack, John Legend and Madonna, who recently gave a late-night performance accompanied by Jon Baptiste and his band....
...It felt like a show grounded in reality, albeit a heightened one, where near-normcore denim jeans and crisp white shirts were actually trompe l’oeil printed nubuck leather....
...“The Madonna corset,” she points to a mash-up of satin and pinstripe, straight from Madonna’s “Blonde Ambition” era....
...A photograph records the balding, reticent Magnani showing Princess Margaret, lively in polka dots, his Filippo Lippi “Madonna and Child”, with its ornamental trompe l’oeil marble effects....
...This season the retailer is stocking voluminous silk-blend opera skirts by Erdem, from a collection inspired by the belle époque costumes in Luchino Visconti’s 1976 film L’Innocente....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...His first purchase, in 1913, was Bartolomeo Cesi’s rapt, trompe l’oeil “A Carthusian Monk”, set as if in a niche....
...Fans include Madonna, artist David Shrigley, Helena Bonham Carter and, for tech cred, Deepmind founder Demis Hassabis. But Broughton has always had a bigger ambition: to make sure every frame fits....
...Lacroix pulled in new clients: Madonna was among the first....
...In the grander sitting room upstairs, trompe-l’oeil fluted columns and floral garlands surround pastorals, under a spectacular ceiling whose timber beams and supports are covered in rich botanical and scroll...
...It’s notable because McGrath’s line draws heavily on drag culture – she launched it in New York with a “Voguing” ball, aping the gay subculture, rather than the Madonna spin-off – and refers to herself as...
...It is hung with gold-ground quattrocento tempera pieces recording Christ’s life, from Gherardo Starnina’s warmly human mother and baby “Madonna of Humility” to Simone dei Crocifissi’s fluid, decorously refined...
...“I think at the time that it was quite nice appreciation, ‘l’enfant terrible’,” he says. “It showed that I was doing things that were maybe not in the rules, which is good for me....
...“The Sacrifice” features a modern Madonna offering up her baby....
...tempera portraits, chilly, weightless, arresting, such as “Silvana Cenni” silent in a white dress, at the Venice Biennale, attracting a buyer in Hermann Göring; a photograph records the Nazi purchasing his Madonna-like...
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