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...city of Jerusalem, beneath clouds whipped by a breeze animating the entire scene....
...It crowds into the carefully planned spaces between St Pancras and King’s Cross stations....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...wonderful, anonymous “Assumption”: Mary, veiled in a powdery, swirling blue-gilt cloak — “perhaps the most beautiful drapery of the century”, according to Roberto Longhi — ascends on a throne of mauve clouds...
...At its apex is an oculus; the clouds were racing by when I visited, interrupted by flashes of blue....
...Its swirling dust-cloud of gambits, reversals and treacheries can sometimes block a wider view....
...On a personal note, I have lately been writing a few days a week from the Financial Times office near St Paul’s Cathedral....
...I like more tonal separation in the clouds. It’s all too much of the same thing.” As we drive, the cloud begins to lift slightly and by the time we get to the house, he looks again and reconsiders....
...Their light and dark V-necked playsuits (I suspect mother-made) are poised between school gym slips and men’s evening clothes....
...Days later, they were knighted by George V....
...When Sarkissian arrives, dressed in a grey pinstriped suit and a black V-neck jumper, he says he is fighting off a cold and orders a little cherry-flavoured vodka and a Coca-Cola....
...Well, there were piles of new snow but thick cloud concealed Mont Blanc and everything below it....
...Escalating tensions, both with Beijing and within Hong Kong, are further complicating these projects and adding to the economic clouds over the territory....
...Wall St. may allow him to follow in Reagan’s footsteps....
...Consider the Cloud shelving (from £744) they created for Cappellini – a cartoon-like set of round holes set into a white cumulus shape....
...“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....
...Once in government, they appointed Andrew Dilnot, an economist and the principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, to head a spending review that looked at financing long term care....
...(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....
...Benedict is the first pontiff to leave office of his own free will since Celestine V in 1294....
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...Remember when three words – back to school – could cast a cloud over an otherwise perfect sunny September morning?...
...His elucidation of works such as the St Matthew Passion makes you want to listen to the music afresh....
...the life of Moses, and the four of St Peter on the right-hand wall beneath Perugino’s scenes from the life of Christ?...
...She also helped turn the tide of the war by identifying, from aerial photographs, the Baltic coastal factory building the V-1 “Doodlebug” flying bombs that had wreaked havoc in London....
...Two other originals of the four (commissioned by Federico Gonzaga of Mantua as a gift to Charles V) have come from Vienna....
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