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...The bottles themselves are given no less attention, featuring original designs by painter Pierluigi Bellacci and tattoo artist Robert Figlia, among others....
...This features an imposing, nearly four-metre-high lightbox from his Ponte City series, made in collaboration with Patrick Waterhouse, which charts the fate of an apartheid-era apartment block (2008-20)....
...His watercolours of frozen seaweed, oak leaves, gooseberry blossom and a peacock feather glow alongside his intricate, softly delineated drawings of medieval buildings — “Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy”,...
...Mass tourism has hollowed out the city’s heart around the Ponte Vecchio, she says. “It is overrun with tourists.” “It can be unbearable in the evening when they are shouting or drunk.”...
...One scene Mrs Martin would like to own is that part of the city where she and her husband Robert rent an apartment when they visit two or three times a year....
...Mozart’s Da Ponte operas are often referred to as a “trilogy”, simply because there are three of them....
...the Medici to commute to work without going outside, it is an enclosed walkway, supported by huge arches, that stretches almost a kilometre from the Uffizi (literally the family’s “offices”), over the Ponte...
...If Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte were alive today, they might also be writing for boulevard theatres, portraying their aristocratic targets as oil tycoons or lascivious world leaders....
...Robert Falls, is updated to 20th-century Spain between the world wars, but with little recognisable impact on the drama....
...The medieval London Bridge was an urban wonder, a riposte to Florence’s Ponte Vecchio....
...Robert Carsen’s new production of Rigoletto opens this year’s Aix-en-Provence Festival on a note that is both deft and disturbing....
...And when the whole nonsensical story is over, we see our hero, Professor Robert Langdon, the art historian and symbologist from Harvard who has appeared in three previous Brown books, reading a paperback...
...pages Carla Del Ponte’s memoir of her stints as chief prosecutor of war criminals in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia is inspired by fury....
...It is good to have two Italians among the principals, giving Da Ponte’s words extra life....
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