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...“The Birth of Venus”, a design for a silversmith to create an oval basin, is composed so that the goddess emerges as if out of the sea when the bowl is drained; around her nymphs ride dolphins, putti play...
...Peter Strickland films, such as the fetishistic The Duke of Burgundy (2014), owe a clear debt to Scala nights watching the likes of Jesús Franco’s Venus in Furs (1969)....
...His other literary heroes quickly emerge — among them Anthony Burgess and Angela Carter, whose “rapturous use of language” stood out like “a clump of Venus flytraps in the agreeable bluebell wood of contemporary...
...“Venus”, painted for Count Maffei, was subsequently owned by Louis XIV — it prefigures French rococo taste....
...It still stands, commemorating his favourite horse, Venus, who is buried below the floor....
...Peter Doig, London Edinburgh to Trinidad, Trinidad to Montreal, Toronto to London – uprooting from place to place has been the primary inspiration behind Peter Doig’s dreamy, near-mythical landscape and...
...A cornice, festooned with flowers and foliage made from hundreds of Venus clams, was another “immersive experiment”, she says....
...Peter Doyle Washington, DC, US...
...The Peninsula, Peter Marino’s first UK hotel project, opens in London in March...
...The group is topped by Peter Paul Rubens’ suitably gory “Salome presented with the severed head of Saint John the Baptist” (c1609), estimated between $25mn and $35mn....
...Letter in response to this article: Comparing Williams and Court is apples and pears / From Peter Doyle, Washington, DC, US...
...Rana Foroohar responds Peter, welcome back to the Swamp! I hope you brought your Wellies....
...Despite the potential for that milestone, the US Open will be without some of the sport’s biggest names, with Serena and Venus Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal among those to withdraw within the...
...are Naxos and Paros, among the largest of the Cyclades, historically important for the very fine quality of their marble, from which many of the most famous of ancient Greek statues were sculpted: the Venus...
...At times the ground floor appears more like a busy art fair on opening night, as you are swept along from one gallery to another, glimpsing Jeff Koons’s “Venus” (recently purchased by the gallery), vaguely...
...Sea-level caves are plentiful, and there are two natural swimming pools, one named Venus, the other Adonis....
...Highlights include an embroidered masked outfit designed and worn by Bowery for a sequence set to the Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs” in Because We Must....
...Separately, Russia claimed Venus as a “Russian planet”....
...The young Kenyan-British painter based the nude seen from the back, a sumptuous sweeping curve of black flesh, on Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus”....
...Peters says she “physically danced with the figures”....
...Carnivorous plant grower Peter D’Amato, author of The Savage Garden, helped popularise them from the late 1980s onwards. “These plants were virtually ignored and unheard of,” he says....
...’s “Venus of Urbino” and Piero della Francesca’s portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino....
...In one quasi-religious image, St Peter’s floats in a thought balloon above his head, a vision of the liberator’s dream to snatch Rome from the pope....
...As a raconteur, she fell some way short of Peter Ustinov: she promised “crazy stories” about her visits to the UK, prompting the thought that maybe we’d get the truth about her marriage to Russell Brand....
...Venus as a Bear, by Vahni Capildeo, Carcanet, RRP£9.99 The winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection turns her attention to the non-human world....
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