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...Like the Mona Lisa’s face and the human body, the Aston Martin DB9 has the 1.618 ratio governing the relationship between height, width and length....
...Alongside historic pieces are artworks by contemporary artists such as Mona Hatoum, Khalil Rabah, Mounira Al Solh, Aya Haidar, Majd Abdel-Hamid and Maeve Brennan which honour the craft’s potent legacy....
...Fans have flocked to see the Mona Lisa of football, or at least to get a picture of him....
...We live in a crumbling old cottage in the middle of the woods, and we’re slowly chipping away at it. We don’t have heating yet....
...Viewed on Instagram stories, Mona and her friends looked sun-kissed, beautiful and wholesome....
...In Bergamo Lotto created a unique work: Bible stories on the iconostasis, crafted from inlaid wood....
...string of beads in 1995’s Hair Necklace, displayed on a stately wood and leather bust....
...For all the devastation, however, this was also an era of extraordinary artistic achievements, the age when Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel...
...Cashmere, cashmere musk or cashmere woods all refer to Cashmeran, a synthetic aroma-molecule with a uniquely complex scent that oscillates between musky woods and burnished amber....
...“If you go to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, can you actually see the Mona Lisa behind that bulletproof glass?” The philosophical — let alone ethical — issues make my head spin....
...“We pulled out subjects like the Mona Lisa-style drawing, which is a great piece, then worked in beads and printed it on various fabrics and knitted pieces.”...
...Such is his potency, St John seems to have sprung fully formed on to the wood....
...The theme, as the watering-can attests, was gardening, not just rambling around woods in silken finery....
...My first encounter with the work of Mona Hatoum was nearly 20 years ago, at the Pompidou Centre in Paris....
...“The Last Table”, copied in enamel paint on imitation wood, from a garish print in mass circulation, was lent by Tate....
...Beirut’s municipality shows little interest in preserving old buildings, and it took heritage activists, in particular architect Mona El Hallak, to rescue it....
...Only a few other images — the Mona Lisa, Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam”, Rodin’s “Thinker”, Munch’s “Scream” — can claim the same pop-culture prominence....
...“If Mona Lisa could speak, who would she be? I’m creating images of these women, but does the world really get the sense of their lives?”...
...One such is a model now in the possession of Mona Perlhagen. “Some friends owned the most beautiful Queen Anne-style house in Cheyne Walk [Chelsea],” she says....
...While official negotiations proceeded in Washington, Norwegian social-scientist Terje Rød-Larsen and his diplomat wife Mona Juul made the highly unorthodox and risky decision to set up separate, clandestine...
...“Racing Thoughts” (1983), which opens the show, is typical: a play of trompe l’oeil illusion and allusion across a surface of text and pictures within a picture, it features the Mona Lisa, a photograph of...
...Mondrian worked exclusively on this big, unfinished, fragile diamond from 1942 until his death in 1944; in part still a collage of coloured tapes, it is the Gemeentemuseum’s “Mona Lisa” and never travels...
...The final room opposes Marcel Duchamp’s “L.H.O.O.Q” (1919), a postcard image of the Mona Lisa with her schoolboy pencilled moustache and beard, with Richard Prince’s series of rephotographed images, “Four...
...(For his on-screen “Mona Lisa”, he made do with MDF rather than the poplar panels that Leonardo preferred.)...
...Inviting senior conceptual artists – Mona Hatoum, Christian Marclay – who rarely or never show here, Parker orchestrates the space sparsely and thoughtfully, with a dramatic wall piece by Richard Woods,...
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