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...For florist Mark Colle, meanwhile, whose clients include Prada and Dior, “the carnation has been a staple at Baltimore, my shop [in Antwerp], for 17 years”....
...mirrored the turmoil of postwar America, Tate’s show is pitch-perfect — the museum in finest form after feeble spring offerings (Hilma af Klint, minor next to Mondrian; Elizabeth Siddal, wretched alongside Rossetti...
...To buy a suit, pop into Hackett if thin and Marks and Spencer if fat. Shirts had to be double cuff, without a pocket and always better value purchased in the sales....
...“The polling is pretty clear that younger Republicans care more about climate change,” said Philip Rossetti, a senior fellow at the free-market R Street Institute think-tank....
...Hermès did especially well on perceived diversity by ethnicity, Expedia and Infineon drew high marks for gender, and Armani did well for LGBT+....
...Growing up Catholic, I’m always drawn to the quiet drama of Advent, these four weeks of waiting that mark the beginning of the western liturgical year and lead up to the birth of Jesus....
...Brexit, Holland suggests, far from representing a moment of national self-confidence, is quite the reverse, a mark of “insecure bravado” if not “the most dismal of dead ends”....
...Until Sept 10 Photographs: Andrea Rossetti; Archivio Carol Rama/Pino dell’Aquila...
...This panoramic example of pictorial democracy still has a queasy, unsettling effect — one does not, in life, survey 457 people in close-up — but it marks the egalitarian spirit both of the non-hierarchic...
...principles behind the “restoration” of ancient buildings, and in 1878 he involved the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings in a successful campaign against the restoration of the west front of St Mark...
...“This market is always the same,” says Mark Weiss. “Every so often a new collector will explode on the scene like a firework, buy frenetically and then disappear.”...
...I love the pale white pietra leccese stone; it’s fragile and acquires the marks of time. The people I rely on for personal grooming are the barbers at Bullfrog in Milan. I go to have my beard trimmed....
...Even if you imagine that your candle of faith has been passed down the generations exclusively by those you admire — from Dante to Chaucer, or from Dr Johnson to Christina Rossetti — you might still find...
...Tim Hayward Garden books A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650-1800, by Mark Laird, Yale University Press, RRP£45 Mark Laird, the great landscape historian, gives a superb narrative about the plants...
...Lowry collected Rossetti but also liked Magritte and Lucian Freud....
...Victorian narrative detail and emotional fervour – Rossetti’s especially – are influences in both....
...Another Pre-Raphaelite article on sale is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Io Sono in Pace” (1875). A chalk drawing of two red-headed maidens, Sotheby’s hopes it will fetch £300,000....
...To mark the 150th anniversary, Morris & Co has launched archive collections of wallpapers and textiles, celebrating popular designs and drawing on textiles from Morris’s former residences....
...On July 20 1969, the BBC decided to mark the moon landing of Apollo 11 by giving its first airing of a new single by the relatively unknown singer-songwriter David Bowie....
...His urban subject painting does so too, and this stance is what marks him most clearly as a great modern artist whose style evolved with modernism itself....
...This year marks the final year of Drummond’s Five-Year Plan....
...Another sketch of her, in which she models the head of St Mark for a stained glass window, is tough, even angry, and very far from the drugged-up girls seen in the paintings....
...The observant night owl can fasten on pieces by names that are part of the artcrit record – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Landseer, Etty and Edward Burne-Jones as well as such “moderns” as Augustus John and Jacob...
...Or had he not been infected by the late surge of poetic romanticism – Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Rossetti....
...The 58-year-old chef seems cheerful and relaxed; his feet tapping in his chisel-toed Fratelli Rossetti lace-ups, his beautifully cut hair just so, his priestly good looks seasoned by the spicy, low aroma...
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