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...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...My first question is about the daunting task of running her new empire: the palace alone has 403 rooms, 3km of facade and about 2,300 staff, and the Louvre also oversees the Tuileries gardens running down...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...If you total up auction sales in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Japan over the past year, the figure outstrips the US for the first time – €130m v €123m....
...They include a spectacular two-metre-high shrine from Burma’s royal palace at Mandalay, replete with sacred geese and a chest containing a volume of scripture....
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