Hints and tips:
...for a muse, by a man who did that a lot”....
...Parlour maid Mary Hillier is “Mary Madonna”, pastiche of a Florentine Renaissance profile....
...For Mary, the light remains a muse. “With the clouds, rain and mist there are a lot of beautiful elements to catch and filter the light....
...In 1990, after his plans to sell Luna Luna to the city of Vienna or tour it through Europe fell through, Heller sold it to the Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation....
...Seated in a loggia, framed by a crimson curtain, brushes and palette to hand, she is at once creator and muse....
...She is 93 and a formidable muse to everyone. She has a timeless elegance, still wearing original pieces from my collections, which can be up to 30 years old....
...The painting depicts the artist’s muse and mistress Kathleen Newton, whose background as an Irish Catholic divorcee ruined the painter’s reputation....
...Sisman claims the affairs enabled novels: “Without a new muse for each book, his inspiration dried up.” Maybe Cornwell just enjoyed the sport....
...Our view is incomplete, but we can guess from what we can see — “A MUSE” and half of a “U” — that we are looking at a museum....
...It’s Easter Sunday, and she’s dressed up in a fancy coat and Mary Janes, a stuffed rabbit under one arm....
...“A friend and mentor of mine, Mary Lasker, used to ask, ‘What is missing and what is needed?’ This is the basis for my philanthropy....
...Her fellow student Mary Constance Lloyd, for example, delivers a sumptuous 1905 oil of John naked, reading on a bed....
...Christian Dior liked to adorn his muses with hummingbirds. Schiaparelli chose the dove. The pigeon, instead, is a dirty, common scavenger. But aren’t we all, right now?...
...Introducing glitter “may have been a reaction to the fabricated work and minimalism” popular at the time, she muses. Glitter represented beauty, the touch of the human hand, and it emanated light....
...“My father always taught me, when you drink water, think about where the water came from,” he muses. “If it wasn’t for London and the Cordwainers, I wouldn’t be here today.”...
...His next film, Le petit soldat (The Little Soldier), was banned for three years for its indictment of French policy in Algeria, though its star Anna Karina emerged as Godard’s first actress-muse, playing...
...George Pragnell, grandfather of the company’s present managing director, Charlie Pragnell, was an apprentice at Biggs of Maidenhead, which was Queen Mary’s jeweller....
...The Republic of Ireland’s presidency was dominated by superannuated male politicians before Mary Robinson — sparky, charismatic and progressive — was elected in 1990, to be followed by Mary McAleese, who...
...why everyone from Giorgio Armani (who paid her a reported $10mn in 2013 to be the face of his perfume Sì) to, latterly, Nicolas Ghesquière and Francesca Amfitheatrof at Louis Vuitton has designated her a muse...
...She was a pioneering feminist, founder of the Women’s Guild of Art and a spurned suitor of George Bernard Shaw, who later enjoyed a relationship with her “companion” Mary Lobb....
...From ‘Mother Muse’ (Carcanet, £10.99) The Sister Iggy of the poem is Sister Mary Ignatius Davies (1921-2003), who ran the Alpha Boys School for wayward boys in Kingston....
...Even so, major works, such as her operas Mary, Queen of Scots and A Christmas Carol, date from this period. Musgrave has always been ahead of her time....
...An unexpected muse for “Roli” is Lyall’s pet rabbit of the same name, apparently a devotee of Air’s album Moon Safari....
...It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood.”...
...“Do you know the story of when a group of men were going to stone Mary Magdalene to death? And Jesus came, put his arms around her and said: ‘Those of you that never sinned, throw the first stones.’...
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