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...I am taken along a passageway from the church to the refectory, a whitewashed L-shaped room with limited but tasteful religious decoration....
...When fine art and portrait photographer Mary McCartney first visited the Macallan estate on the river Spey in north-east Scotland in 2020, the peat and mineral smells, rare wildflowers and misty light transported...
...A “Rouen Cathedral”, morning view, misty with pink undertones and silvery highlights, is here, and Monet’s “Field of Tulips”, landscape dissolving into a vast red sweep....
...Misty mornings turned into sublime autumn days. We scrunched through drifts of leaves as yellow and dry as cornflakes....
...There are so many incredible restaurants: L’Ami Jean, for the rice pudding, and Allard, which was started more than 80 years ago and is now run by Alain Ducasse....
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
...A trick of the eye, a trompe-l'oeil. Just because you have said the problem is imaginary does not disappear the thread of reality....
...American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet is a deeply pleasurable, illuminating exhibition about affinities and influence, America and France, timeliness and timelessness, just opened at the Musée de l’...
...But 19th-century modernity also meant interiority: the smoke dissolving boundaries between the inside and outside of the Gare St Lazare anticipates by a quarter of a century the misty, visionary series of...
...“Monet seems to have attained the extreme limits of art,” recorded the conservative L’Action. “He wanted to explore the unexplorable, to express the inexpressible, to build on the fog of the Thames....
...Misty, delicate, with the slightest squinty unevenness, these are quite unlike the intense and luscious berry-eyes of the Mona Lisa — but they have just the same unnerving way of following you, the same...
...However, Gerald Brockhurst, despite borrowing the misty, steel-blue mountains beloved of Leonardo as a backdrop, falls on the sword of his own perfectionist technique....
...The midnight-blue train with its golden crest was waiting in a private platform at the Gare de l’Est, and it was late....
...The primary failure may not be with the “big L” Liberal party but with the small-”l” liberals, of all parties and none....
...There we were, all misty-eyed, reading about the tortuous, comedic efforts to prop up the oh-so-bust Cyprus Popular Bank back in 2012, and then up pops the ECB with this stern instruction not to view its...
...The two men bonded over James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and L. Frank Baum’s Oz books....
...Soft-skinned easterners romanticised the exploits of cowboys, miners and homesteaders, though not always in a way that evokes a misty smile today....
...The mushrooms were a prized component of what was not yet called “Full English”, which he’d prepare when we returned to the sound of St Thomas’s bells across the misty meadows: pork sausages (not Bowyers...
...Other women would eventually take on surrogate roles, at least in the kitchen, including Misty, an adventurous chef in Michigan, where Hamilton studied creative writing; Alda, her Italian mother-in-law;...
...In a wide-ranging new monograph, L.S. Lowry: The Art and the Artist, T.G....
...‘Normandie Impressionniste’, to September 30, www.normandieimpressionniste.fr ‘Une ville pour l’impressionnisme’, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, to September 26 ‘L’impressionnisme au fil de la Seine’, Musée...
...The road from the delicious, pastel-coloured, fin-de-siècle seaside resorts of Biarritz and St-Jean-de-Luz leads south through misty green hills, neatly hedged pastures and tiny villages whose whitewashed...
...I have no memory of why or how this move came about, though I do vaguely remember a boyfriend helping me transport my stuff (an unwieldy metal bedframe and about 16 carrier bags of books) on a misty morning...
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