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...The refined, elaborate “Crescetis Amores”, nude Venus suckling three putti, vividly reworks Roman sculptures of cupids and of the goddess of love....
...The New York museum keeps running up the score: overhauling its Greek and Roman galleries in 2007, the American wing two years later and the Islamic wing in 2011....
...the Grimaldi, Doria, Cattaneo, Pallavicino, Durazzo, Spinola and others who administered the republic, and the Holy Roman Empire’s funds, throughout Genoa’s golden age....
...Thus Rubens’ “Descent from the Cross” in Antwerp cathedral, Raphael’s “Transfiguration” from Rome, Veronese’s “Wedding Feast at Cana” ripped off a wall in the monastery church of San Giorgio Maggiore in...
...But my life is one of late-Roman decadence next to that of the median earner. If you are a corporate lawyer (not even a partner) so is yours....
...Yukhnovich looked to depictions of Venus from across the cultural canon, including Rubens’ The Feast of Venus, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and the rapper-singer Doja Cat, known for her pastel-pink aesthetic...
...(at the Villa, opening 10 November, where works by the 16th-century Flemish artist, diplomat and notorious social butterfly will be contrasted with Greek and Roman pieces from the museum’s permanent collection...
...It is noisy, frenzied, lustful — William Hazlitt thought Poussin’s sly satyrs “more secretly depraved” than those of the voluptuary Rubens — but underpinned by tight structure: controlled chaos....
...In his painting “Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis” (c1620-25), the Flemish Old Master Peter Paul Rubens depicts a famous story of hospitality told by the Roman poet Ovid....
...Roman Abramovich, the Russian-Israeli tycoon who bought Chelsea in 2003, is hoping for a repeat of 2012, the club’s first and only triumph in the competition....
...Despite its neo-Roman appearance, this is a profoundly modern building, accommodating an electricity substation below elegant Italian gardens provided by the Duke of Westminster for the recreation of the...
...The Jewish Roman historian Flavius Josephus, writing in the first century, described King David as a man “of excellent character and endowed with all the virtues that were desirable in a king . . . a man...
...For its part, the Wallace Collection will benefit from a reciprocal deal with the National Gallery in which two landscape masterpieces by Peter Paul Rubens, held in his private collection and intended to...
...The next day we roamed the city, climbing the cathedral’s clock tower, touring the castle that was never captured, gazing at the spans of the Roman aqueduct and appreciating why the Hay Festival has a partnership...
...Rubens’ “Prometheus Bound”. Brancusi’s “Bird”. A Japanese teahouse, complete and exquisite. Cézanne’s large “Bathers”. Early Renaissance gold-ground treasures. Dutch masterworks....
...The Romans, in contrast, saw a positive side to the god of war: conquest brought them fertile territory and aggression tended to encourage peace....
...It’s not known who the sitter is but, Gordon adds, “as is often the case with Rubens, he projects himself into the portrait”. Rubens is believed to have kept the painting until he died in 1640....
...More than 200 works were rediscovered, including Renaissance drawings, an ancient Roman fresco and sarcophagus and paintings by Rubens and van Dyck....
...The 1st Duke of Marlborough had been given the painting in 1706 by a grateful Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, for helping defeat his enemy the Elector of Bavaria....
...His items reflect the classical world’s influence on later artists, from Rubens (the 17th-century Flemish master’s portraits of Roman emperors, for example) to contemporary ones such as Sir Antony Gormley...
...The history of copies goes back to antiquity, with Roman artists making moulds of Greek sculptures....
...portrait of the Roman emperor Galba, which is being offered at $3m....
...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....
...“He was always meticulous in his work,” says Philip Rubens, a lawyer at Cooke Young & Keidan. “He has gravitas and comes with complete credibility.”...
...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”.)...
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