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...bleakly spot-lit composition of labourers on ladders removing the dead Christ in “The Deposition”; Maso da San Friano’s delicate narrative portraiture, seen in the depiction of six-month-old baby “Sinibaldo Gaddi...
...Particularly effective this year is the latest collaboration between Georg Laue and Peter Freeman, which presents the 30 glazed rectangular watercolour heads of contemporary artist Thomas Schütte’s “Ideego...
...The first ancillary surprise, as it were, was the engine which waited at Porthmadog station to haul us on our journey: it was not Thomas the Tank Engine, as I rather expected, but a hefty brass-bound articulated...
...In 1974, the board gave no prize rather than recognise Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, the jurors’ unanimous pick....
...George F Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis, Penguin Press, RRP£30 A biography of the man who devised America’s strategy of “containment” to deal with the Soviet Union after 1945 also serves...
...Take time to study Bonaiuti’s astonishing murals portraying St Thomas Aquinas, glorifying the pursuit of knowledge and depicting the Dominican battle against heresy....
...Also sharing the stage will be bass Ferruccio Furlanetto and baritone Thomas Hampson, who, with Giordani, will host an evening discussing their operatic collaborations on March 24....
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