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...Only one vital thing is missing: she was never an interesting painter....
...Inès Cross The Standard, London, until 22 June SEE Mary Lovelace O’Neal at Marianne Boesky After a 60-year career, Mary Lovelace O’Neal shows no signs of slowing down....
...“I wanted to explore male desire – particularly Giorgione and Tintoretto, because they’re the moodiest Venetian painters. They’re obsessed with a sort of eroticised image of Mary, and of motherhood....
...A tremendous initial contrast is Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s expressive, dislocated heads and Amy Sherald’s stylised realism of bright colours, clean lines....
...Parlour maid Mary Hillier is “Mary Madonna”, pastiche of a Florentine Renaissance profile....
...The Pope will leave a floral wreath at the base of the 19th-century column of the Virgin Mary in Piazza Mignanelli at 4pm....
...Like many quattrocento painters, Pesellino almost certainly passed through Ghiberti’s workshop while it was occupied with the “Gates of Paradise” for Florence’s Baptistry (1425-52)....
...Nurse Mary Seacole throws her arms open in wide embrace. Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...Wright, the first painter of the Industrial Revolution, seems to warn of the dangers of an emotionally detached scientific society to come....
...The works of art that changed everything for me were Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies illustrations....
...Which painter was nicknamed “Jack the Dripper”? Which singer – at her commercial peak in the 1960s – was born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien?...
...Below, sitting on a step, is one version of Mary Magdalene, in a black opera dress, lost in contemplation....
..., from the workshop of the Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden....
...Californian painter Hilary Pecis’s playfully messy tablescapes depict the detritus of a table the morning after a late night – champagne, wine bottles, celery and tomato juice for Bloody Marys and Sriracha...
...risk from US settlement reform Asset managers are slowly waking up to the full implications of a move by the US and Canada to shorten settlement times for stocks, bonds and exchange traded funds, writes Mary...
...The “prince of painters and painter of princes”, as he was called in his lifetime, is familiar but alien to modern taste — grandiloquent, arcane....
...That painters went to such lengths is testament to the significance of portraits in the pre-modern era....
...In the early 1960s, Rothschild met Serena Mary Dunn at the house of Nancy Astor, the first woman to take a seat in Britain’s parliament....
...I walk through a beautifully kept garden that’s dominated by a magnolia tree about to come into full bloom, and I’m greeted by Mary Austin, the woman who has been living at Garden Lodge for the past 30 years...
...Welcome William Blake, poet, painter, printer, wild visionary....
...In the winding lanes of the citadel, I came upon St Mary’s Church, now a museum of the paintings of Onufri, one of the great 16th-century icon painters....
...“If you brought a Renaissance painter into this space, they would feel at home.” Such preservation and protection have been the lifeblood of the gallery for nearly 200 years....
...It’s his daughters Mary and Alice who take over the orchard when Osgood dies, and prove just as eccentric as their father....
...Library of Victoria April marks the final full month of this exhibition dedicated to book design, production and illustration from the Middle Ages to today via 300 rare items, including early editions of Mary...
...In being a painter of people, Neel became a painter of clothes....
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