Hints and tips:
...Two months later, and against the express command of her brother, Mary married Brandon secretly in France....
...Mary enveloping the infant Christ with her whole body, cradling him into herself, the crinkly fabric of her dress against the baby’s smooth flesh, her solid form enlivened by voluminous drapery in contours...
...He bestows similar autonomy on Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, a drawing of whom, made in 1500, is also on show....
...The Villa d’Este at Tivoli is perhaps the best-preserved Renaissance statuary garden, and Versailles still maintains the same quantity of statuary as contemporaries would have experienced....
...Grossly overweight and suffering from a heart condition inherited from his father, he collapsed while on holiday in the Uruguayan resort of Punta Del Este....
...Kimonos dance with light and colour; painted screens riot; blood spurts in one scene with the panache and grace of a Villa d’Este fountain; and symbolic goldfish swim everywhere, in their glass enclosures...
International Edition