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...The Roman College is a sprawling complex of villas. Cypress and pine trees rise above tiled terracotta roofs....
...As to the Marie Rose sauce, I like mine ketchup-heavy. For every tablespoon of mayonnaise I add double the amount of tomato ketchup, plus two teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce....
...If you discuss with Roman he is definitely convinced that this is going to sustain itself also for 2024....
...(There is an apocryphal tale that Marie Antoinette, after being presented with a silk rose, fainted at the sight of it.)...
...His Roman Catholicism made him an unusual figure on the French left, with its anticlerical and secularist traditions. Delors met and married his wife, Marie Lephaille, in 1948....
...Founder Marie-Étienne Nitot was a noted “naturalist jeweller” who observed flowers with a scientific level of detail....
...Sofia Coppola enters the Salon Marie-Louise at the Ritz Paris looking exactly like someone you would encounter in a Sofia Coppola film....
...Mauritius Vallée de Farney eau de parfum ($93 for 50ml) is an island escape from Maison Louis Marie that recreates the nature reserve of the same name that’s home to more than 100 plant species....
...“You cannot tell me that every piece of Roman glass must be in a museum,” says Marinello....
...The 17th-century philosopher Margaret Cavendish, that “uncompromising materialist”, gets three pages; the medieval polymath Hildegard of Bingen gets none; Marie Curie just a few lines....
...As Neoclassicism takes hold, the “Empire” silhouette fashionable during Jane Austen’s time becomes dominant, hair styles take a Roman cast, floral fabrics give way to stripes, and Ionic columns surface in...
...The ancient Roman story of Sextus Tarquinius raping the noblewoman Lucretia has acquired a prestigious cultural heritage. Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt and others have painted scenes from it....
...The term “laissez faire” was coined in the 18th century by Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, a French economist....
...Yet in a brilliant disorienting move, Ingres smashes illusion anyway: in her mirror, he depicts Moitessier in incongruent, impossible reflection — in profile, like the face on a Roman coin — highlighting...
...Roman artist Coralla Maiuri creates veritable works of art, mixing fine porcelain with hand-painted lapis lazuli and gold details....
...De Re Coquinaria, one of the earliest known cookbooks, probably collated by a Roman called Caelius Apicius in the fifth century AD, contained numerous recipes that called for wine....
...A series of larger floor-standing pieces, inspired by Roman archaeological columns, doubles as stools and side tables....
...Peoples moved into, rather than out, of the Roman empire. The Kushan empire (roughly 80 BCE until the third century CE) opened up trade routes through India and then across the Indian Ocean....
...The firm remains entirely Italian-owned (investment firm Italmobiliare has an 80 per cent stake), and Roman-born Perris is adamant that this has been “a year of study” – of the company’s extraordinarily...
...The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the Worldby Marie Favereau, The Belknap Press £23.95/$29.95 In medieval European times, the Mongols ruled a vast area of the Eurasian landmass stretching as far to the...
...Jean-Marie Guéhenno, head of UN peacekeeping in those years, said he brought more than a sharp intellect to the UN....
...Robert Storey, spatial designer99% Invisible by Roman Mars is about design and the everyday things we tend not to notice, but which have incredible stories behind them....
...During the reign of the Emperor Vespasian (AD69-79), this virgin prophetess, representing Gaulish resistance against the Romans, is said to have fallen for her Roman enemy Eudore, and the statue shows her...
...Auctions also appear in Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as well as in Samuel Pepys’s diaries....
...This, Piccioli explains, is inspired by the nailheads on Roman palazzo doors, which are shaped like pyramids....
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