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...Painted by the enigmatic Flemish master between 1516-17, the work depicts the saint in a makeshift hut as he extracts a thorn from a lion’s paw....
...In her final year of study, she was also awarded the Young Masters Maylis grand ceramic prize and has since shown at the V&A, Christie’s and Collect at the Saatchi Gallery....
...Despite being banned in China, its scoops made it a thorn in Beijing’s side....
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...His Crown of Thorns headpiece, for example, made it into the 2018 “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” show, which drew nearly 1.7m visitors, and the “Jewelry: The Body Transformed” exhibition...
...But the consequence was that Saddam remained in power, a thorn in American flesh for years to come....
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...“This disinformation is a really socially dangerous phenomenon that can often lead to very tragic consequences,” said Timofei V, deputy head of a government-run coronavirus monitoring centre....
...This elegant balance of extremes still characterises Shaun Leane jewels: the sharp rose-thorn ear-studs, both fairytale and fearsome, that recreated the real thorns that the fashion designer used to stick...
..., based on Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940). The answer is the Aztec god of war, Huītzilōpōchtli. Who knew?...
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...Searching for more about the crucifixion portrait of the US philanthropist Fred Holland Day, I find this caption: “In 1898, after some months of frugal eating, and wearing a crown of thorns, Fred Holland...
...A 10-bedroom palazzo with rooftop terrace, sea views, parking and garden is on the market with E&V for €8.5m....
...The exhibition will run at the V&A from 16 June 2018 to 4 November....
...Also: AR v VR Do you like your reality augmented or completely virtual? Augmented reality has seen little progress with no sign yet of Google bringing out the next generation of Google Glass....
...But a theatre of saintly agony is also unfolding: in the background San Stefano is being stoned; St Benedict has flung himself into a thorn bush to vanquish his carnal desire; and in the predella below,...
...“I never wanted to let him down,” says Leane, whose challenges included crafting a skeleton corset — carved in wax and cast in aluminium — for SS98 and creating a silver thorn choker studded with huge Tahitian...
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...“That’s smilax aspera,” said Agustina, examining my hand, bleeding from the thorns. “We call it straccia braghe [ripped trousers].” This was like God’s own assault course....
...Seeing Santa impaled by a Flying V guitar, as in the “Zombie Christmas” video, is some tongue in some cheek....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The other shows two male nudes preparing to bathe, one taking a thorn out of his foot in a clear homage to the famous Greco-Roman bronze “Il Spinario” which Signorelli may have seen in Rome....
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