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...’re ideally positioned to explore the city’s best, from Dries Van Noten’s Modepaleis and Graanmarkt 13 (still one of the best hybrids of retail and dining in northern Europe) to the house of Peter Paul Rubens...
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...“Until now there has been a basic consensus on issues such as immigration and gender [in parliament],” said Sandra León, a political scientist at Madrid’s Carlos III university....
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...auctions on July 4-5 span the late 15th to 18th centuries and range in price from £10,000 — the low estimate for an early 16th-century Northern Netherlandish School “Double Portrait” — to £4m, for Peter Paul Rubens...
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...“If somebody attacks Japan, we have to go and start World War III, OK? If we get attacked, Japan does not have to help us,” he said in December. “Does that sound good?”...
...Rubens’ portraits, for example, can border on caricature, bursting as they do with the artist’s humour and painterly brio....
...Colnaghi is displaying the lyrical conversation piece, “The Sayer Family of Richmond” (1781), by George III’s favourite painter, Johan Zoffany....
...A few seconds later, I knew that a portrait of King George III lay waiting to be bought for a song in a minor US auction house....
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...But by the time Rubens’ canvas paintings of James I were raised into position on the ceiling in 1636, many found royal privilege hard to swallow....
...In 1762, a young German princess deposed her incompetent husband Tsar Peter III, became Empress of Russia and set about making her adopted country part of Europe....
...That reading is boosted by Titian’s portrait of Pope Paul III, 1543, which opens the second half of the show....
...Rubén del Mazo Fernández shows a table comparing the cost of the local fiesta three years ago and now to make his point....
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