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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...
...Dozens of former prosecutors, judges and reporters have fled the country or been imprisoned, including acclaimed investigative journalist José Rubén Zamora....
...It awards €50,000 annually and this year’s other bursary goes to the Neue Galerie in New York for Egon Schiele’s “Town among Greenery (The Old City III)” from 1917....
...The Chico is run by the Phillips family, whose company Ranchlands was founded in 1999 by Duke Phillips III, or “Big Duke”....
...So did his successors, Philips III and IV, by Falomir’s account....
...Just south of the dunes, pressed against the Sangres, sits the Zapata Ranch....
...Rubens’ pupil Van Dyck brought the movement’s bravura dazzle, without its spiritual substance, to the court of Charles I....
...“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....
...William II died of smallpox in November 1650; a week later, Mary gave birth to the future William III of England....
...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...
...In a surprise move last summer, LVMH sold Donna Karan International to American company G-III Apparel Group after underwhelming results....
...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....
...The same was true of their friend, Allan Ramsay, son of a Scottish poet, then painter in ordinary to King George III and prolific portraitist....
...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....
...On display in the Ashmolean, “Study for Pentimenti III (sinopia)” (2011) shows her everywoman clasping a long-legged babe draped over her domed belly....
...Konrad Bernheimer of Colnaghi is, revealingly, among those sourcing more material in Spain – the splendid Rubens that he sold on the first day of TEFAF in Maastricht, for instance – and in France....
...Another despot, Catherine II, who became empress after having her husband Peter III murdered, swept the next wave of western enlightenment into Russia....
...Ark”, and Andries Benedetti’s monumental, sexy “Still Life with Fruit, Oysters and Lobsters” alternate with intimate, immediate drawings: Rembrandt’s pen-and-chalk sketch of his wife Saskia at a window, Rubens...
...A poet in four or five languages, a composer, musician and connoisseur of paintings, a flirt, social climber and show-off, he knew everyone who mattered, from kings to the painter Rubens, and he did more...
...In 1762, following the assassination of her husband, Peter III, Catherine became empress. Within two years her building campaign began....
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