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...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...The room features Gainsborough’s own copies of a Rubens and a Van Dyck. But the room is in a part of the house built a few decades after the artist himself had died....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Rubens’ pupil Van Dyck brought the movement’s bravura dazzle, without its spiritual substance, to the court of Charles I....
...She cites the 2005 case Town of Castle Rock v Gonzales in which the Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado police department could not be sued for failing to enforce a restraining order against a man who had...
...“If we play like we did against Germany, we can reach the final,” said Sergio Lira, a local council worker watching a rerun of Portugal v Morocco as he ate lunch....
...Although not formally groundbreaking — the style derives from Titian and Rubens — in their virtuosity and vivacity, dazzle yet intimacy, high colour, bravura loose brushwork and baroque gestures, Van Dyck...
...The museum has been designed by Thomas Heatherwick’s studio on the V&A Waterfront, whose management company has funded the building’s ZAR500m ($38m) redevelopment....
...Political candidates and sitting presidents alike, for example, have long criticised the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v Wade abortion rights decision....
...Another highlight from the Louvre is Titian’s “Supper at Emmaus” (c. 1530), while the Prado will send “Charles V with a Dog” (1533) by the same artist....
...Martin Roth, V&A director, said the exhibition “shows that Constable’s art, so well-loved and familiar to many of us, still delivers surprises”....
...While all this is enlightening, the V&A’s real triumph is to show how Constable absorbed yet transcended tradition to become an expressive, naturalistic painter, distilling effects of sunlight or fleeting...
...“The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man” was a trophy, acquired by 18-year-old Prince William V, last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and a passionate collector since childhood....
...No wonder he is the painter’s painter; the touchstone for Rubens, Velázquez and Delacroix. (The latter said that all great painters were Titian’s “flesh and blood”.)...
...Some of that was beautiful – sheath dresses with felted wool and satin appliquéd on the front like arts of abstract art; a simple V-neck sweater over a skirt given shape not through pleating, but rather...
...His collection included a Gerard ter Borch genre scene, Gonzales Coques’ “A Family Group in a Landscape” (1647), a prosaic northern precursor of Watteau’s fêtes, and Rubens’ golden panels “Solomon Receiving...
...Sotheby’s evening sale on Monday totalled £41m with a very respectable 83 per cent sold by lot, while Christie’s slightly larger sale (62 v 53 lots) on Wednesday raised £45.6m with 84 per cent sold by volume...
...Behind them, the Italian Gianlorenzo Bernini was just flexing his creative muscles, Rubens was in his Antwerp pomp and, in a recently established Seville studio, the 20-year-old Diego Velázquez was taking...
...“It’s not going to be V-shaped, this crisis,” said Mr Vardanian. “It will not be down, then up again. It will be more like a W: down, up, down, up. Maybe a few more times.”...
...first room, where it has only rather quiet portraits for company – Erasmus by Massys (1517, pictured right); a head of a young man by Memling (c 1480); and an anonymous near-caricature of Emperor Charles V,...
...The court will hear two cases, Gonzales v Carhart and Gonzales v Planned Parenthood, that test the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, a federal law that chips away at the right...
...Philip V manoeuvring his horse as “expertly” as his kingdom was a pure fiction, of course – his kingdom was a shambles....
...The epidemic could be pulling gross domestic product growth down by as much as 1.5 percentage points in 10 years’ time, according to V.P. Rao, an NCAER economist....
...He has criticised Roe v Wade. █ Samuel Alito, is an alternate Hispanic candidate....
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