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...Did the waters of the Nile, for example, like those of the Ganges, provide spiritual renewal for ancient Egyptians, as well as food?...
...But from this tragedy grew another part of Sa Bassa Blanca’s offerings, something quite different....
...Founded by Sangita Jindal, chair of the JSW Foundation, the social development arm of one of India’s largest conglomerates, and her daughter Tarini Jindal Handa, its campus will offer artists not just exhibition...
...Water cascades from a fountain at the centre of a superlative Corinthian colonnade, recently reassembled from 3,000 fallen fragments by Belgian archaeologists, and all for the benefit of us and a small group...
...Ranks of topless male models dressed as ancient Egyptians lining the catwalk felt cheesy too. But the clients sitting around me loved it. “Forget about Paris Fashion Week,” one said....
...Sun pours down through the conservatory ceiling, casting the incisions on a wall-mounted fragment of Roman entablature into relief....
...Ouroboros (“tail-devourer” in Greek), the serpent with its tail in its mouth that inspires jewellers from Tiffany to Ileana Makri, dates back to the ancient Egyptians, but is also referenced in Hindu mythology...
...The moat alone took 5,000 men 10 years of digging, while the temple inside it contains more stone than the largest Egyptian pyramid....
...It’s supposed to look like ancient cats, like Egyptian gods, but they had beards, which you can see is pretty much copy and paste on top of the image. So it’s, it looks like a (inaudible)....
...On closer inspection, it is actually a fragment of a 14th-century BC ancient Egyptian statue, depicting the ear, wig and a bit of mane of Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess....
...It is the home of cross-genre collecting, a mecca for those who like to combine a Biedermeier cabinet with an African tribal mask, or place an ancient Greek fragment next to a piece by Gaudier-Brzeska....
...From above I see the tanned bodies sprawled across the rocks, arms and feet protruding here and there from caves and boltholes offering precious centimetres of shade....
...her arm on a watchful lion, emblem of Venice....
...At the same sale, the centrepiece of a Bulgari necklace of similar style was an ancient bronze coin depicting King George III; inscribed “Georgivs III Rex”, the reverse shows the King’s coat of arms....
...Sasanian horsemen on Persian ceramics were a legacy of the ancients, as was a culture of feasting. This cultural layering is one reason why reductive definitions of Islamic art can be so misleading....
...Adorning a wall above the great staircase of Champollion (1925), which travelled between Marseille and Alexandria, was a painting by Jean Lefeuvre of an ancient Egyptian barque....
...the gravity of ancient temples....
...London-based David Aaron is selling an Egyptian bronze cat, dating from c664-343BC — one of the earliest works at Masterpiece this year — as well as a 12th- or 13th-century gilded wood Amida Nyōrai Buddha...
...In “Interior of a Museum” (1956-59), outlines of viewers are fragments seen through a glass case containing Greek painted pots; ancient and current figures merge into a choreography of dancing forms, recalling...
...of one’s good behaviour....
...At least I tried to, because between me and the plunging walls of volcanic basalt lay a forest of selfie sticks and extended Goretex-clad arms....
...At one point, Hirst hands me a photocopied document, a fragment of the Dinner Conversations of Apollonius of Samos, a supposed source that proves impossible to verify....
...Dusseldorf’s painted wooden “Caryatid” (1912) with raised arms, compressed body and bent legs glows alongside an Egyptian wooden funerary fragment depicting the goddess Nut from 600BC....
...This is one of the finest extant examples of a “Madonna” figure from the ancient Okvik Culture of the Bering Sea, Alaska....
...Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery, by Robert Harbison, Reaktion, RRP£20/$35 Drawing parallels from modernist literature and art, Harbison suggests that the ruin and the fragment appeal...
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