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...His cousin sprites, joyous little “Spiritelli”, are bizarre fusions, derived from the pagan putto, adapted as celebratory figures associated with Christian baptism....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...In 2017, a German appeals court in Hamm agreed to hear a case brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who claims that RWE should be held accountable for climate change, specifically the melting...
...“I went to see Savage Beauty [the 2015 Alexander McQueen retrospective at the V&A] many times. It felt like the opposite of the fashion industry, which was really speeding up....
...This year, 21 teenagers will get a hearing in the California appeals court for their claim in Juliana v US that the government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty and property by promoting the...
...She attended Temple University and married her brother’s friend, Saul Windsor, after graduating with a bachelors degree in 1950. The marriage lasted less than a year....
...That was The Country Girls, which led to Girl with Green Eyes, Girls in Their Married Bliss, A Pagan Place — and to divorce, infamy, freedom and the London she had imagined....
...porcelain-smooth limbs, it chronicles the legend of the imperial Roman soldiers who converted to Christianity and were punished for it by their own emperor who had himself just made an alliance with the pagan...
...“When Lee was planning the AW07 show ‘In memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1692’, he wanted a pagan-style headpiece,” he explains, “but made in fine jewellery.”...
...By the time he died in 1564, Protestantism had swept through northern Europe; the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V had brought Rome to its knees and the Counter-Reformation was fighting back....
...Pagan Babies (2000) switches between Rwanda and Detroit....
...Of late, the clamour around the rescue of “Diana and Actaeon” for Britain’s National Galleries has emphasised his genius for pagan storytelling....
...above all in the form of statuettes, from the 15th century onwards such pieces were again esteemed as collectors’ items, and were one of the principal ways in which the period paid homage to the genius of pagan...
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...The film was set in Paris, and so the producers shipped him over and put him up in the Hotel George V for eight months. Allen loved Paris....
...I have been saving Saul Bellow’s Letters for a rainy day – I received two copies of the recent hardback for Christmas – but I know when I read them he’ll become smaller to me....
...Accompanied by so many other pagan and secular images, its presence brings home forcefully the unique tension – social, spiritual and intellectual – that made Quattrocento Florence such a uniquely creative...
...Yet even this contains elaborate Italianate motifs, and in style is evocative of one of the V&A’s most magnificent secular pieces, the gilded silver nautilus shell table sculpture, the Burghley Nef, made...
...The first great humanist pope, Nicholas V (1447-55), translated ancient Greek texts into Latin....
...He worked for Saul Bass and for Fortune magazine and then returned to Britain to found Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in 1958....
...In addition, “the web gives people the ability to deliver a much more personalised experience”, says Saul Klein, partner at Index Ventures....
...You’re more likely to be on to something if you’re reading V.S. Pritchett, Saul Bellow … But any young squirt, you’re not going to read except out of a kind of sociological curiosity.”...
...KALOOKI NIGHTS by Howard Jacobson Jonathan Cape ₤17.99, 480 pages V.S. Pritchett once identified in the novels of Saul Bellow a strain of comedy tinged with “fatality”....
...MAGIC SEEDS by V.S. Naipaul Picador £16.99, 304 pages I found V.S. Naipaul by process of elimination....
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