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...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...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....
...In November, the venerated Roman house will open in the City of Lights: the Bulgari Hôtel Paris has (naturally) a mint location on the Avenue Georges V – in the coveted Triangle d’Or – and its usual architectural...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
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...Champions Chelsea are expelled from Premier League after owner Roman Abramovich is declared bankrupt....
...Biblioteca Marciana, Piazzetta San Marco 7 (+39041-240 7211; www.marciana.venezia.sbn.it)....
...A grande guignol of the lissom male bodies that were a Carpaccio trademark, skewered against trees whose naked branches map the victims’ porcelain-smooth limbs, it chronicles the legend of the imperial Roman...
...19 The designer of the suit was the subject of an exhibition at the V&A in London in 2015, which proved the most popular in the museum’s history....
...But they hadn’t seen Kent’s Roman fresco, which still survives in the church of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi. It is a bit smaller than Raphael’s great cycle in the Vatican. To be honest, it’s tiny....
...Sir Thomas More and son of an artist, Uzzell-Edwards left Britain, or “the ruins of Thatcher’s Britain”, as he likes to put it, in 1990 to design a streetwear clothing label and make electronic music in San...
...By the time he died in 1564, Protestantism had swept through northern Europe; the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V had brought Rome to its knees and the Counter-Reformation was fighting back....
...(He was court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.) By his death in 1576 he was the most important artist in Europe, yet we know very little about him other than his preoccupation with money....
...Signorelli’s undisputed masterpiece is the cycle of frescoes in the Chapel of San Brizio in the Duomo di Orvieto....
...Fermo, once a Roman fortress town, was later allied with Venice and traded to the east, flourishing during the Renaissance....
...From futuristic vision to where it all began: we come to the two small islands where the Romans founded their city of Lutèce....
...Other influences on the Roman scene included Fra Angelico, called in 1447 to fresco Pope Nicholas V’s private chapel....
...www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk v Vase Ingeborg Lundin Founded in 1898 as a lowly window glass and bottle manufacturer, the Swedish company Orrefors went on to blaze a trail of artistic and technical innovation...
...Last year, a 1960 Lincoln Mark V, with documentation to prove ownership by Elvis Presley, fetched $515,000, auctioned by Barret-Jackson....
...Later, standing in the Palazzo’s forecourt, Morari told me that Federico and Charles V had played tennis here during the latter’s visit. “Can you imagine playing tennis with Charles V?”...
...I was admiring the Church of San Domenico, a forgotten masterpiece of what you might call unconscious expressionism....
...When they dug it up, it was bought by Cardinal San Giorgio as a Roman antique at a super-inflated price.”...
...Last year, Hytner began his first season at the National with Shakespeare’s Henry V....
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