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...Dudley looks severe and dignified as he gazes over his high lace ruff and gold-embroidered doublet....
...His emotional range is wonderfully varied: the five grieving, desperate women in “The Lamentation”; Mary radiant and protective in the darkness of “The Flight into Egypt”; a fierce, penetrating portrait...
...It is available from £700 per week via LHH (lhhscotland.com) Sea Ranch, California Mary Holland I live in New York but seldom travel to California....
...Wrinkled and dissatisfied in a big white ruff, she sparkles nonetheless — impasto highlights, flourishes of dark shadows, a spontaneous look conjured from absolute pictorial control....
...Hence Blanchett’s decision to wear Mary Katrantzou’s wild style – the opposite of Giorgio Armani’s pared-down chic....
...Rustling silk, fluttering gauzes and powdered faces, silvery glades and rose-streaked skies, the zigzag impasto of a lace ruff flecked with a fading rose (“Mary Gainsborough, the Artist’s Daughter”), the...
...Lastly, usually in the presence of the subject, the facial features were given final refinement and, often after the sitter left, the painstaking details of costume, ruffs, jewels and flowers were completed...
...His legitimate sister, Isola, died aged nine of a fever; his illegitimate sisters, Emily and Mary, died from burns following a domestic accident....
...After 20 minutes, we arrived at Bamurru, a collection of 10 safari bungalows arranged along the edge of the Mary River floodplains....
...It is a staple of the spring/summer collections now entering stores, and is regularly on view courtesy of Downton Abbey’s Cora, Countess of Grantham, in her beaded black lace tops – not to mention Lady Mary...
...The mood segued into looks inspired by Mary Queen of Scots, with models in white lace ruffs atop Elizabethan jackets with peplums and exaggerated sleeves....
...There are occasional hints of Tudor ruffs and tunics, but in the main we are watching an imaginary early 19th-century drama that spills over, in the mid-20th-century suits of the courtiers, to a world not...
...Eventually, the silence is broken as the archbishop and Sister Jean-Mary, one of two nuns living at Lambeth, read out alternate lines of the psalms....
...Yet these women are vulnerable, haunted types, suggesting Mary Magdalene or Lot’s daughters as much as the fin de siècle demi-monde....
...This book sits fascinatingly with Mary Panzer’s Things As They Are (Boot £45), the story of photo-journalism since 1955, from Cartier-Bresson to images of last December’s tsunami....
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