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...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....
...The US proposal received a more positive response from Vladimir Putin, who said Russia, which manufactures the Sputnik V vaccine, would support the move. “A pandemic is an emergency situation . . ....
...It acts like a mirror in a hall of mirrors, distorting and transforming us. But it’s also a portal....
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...(FT) Trump: Übermensch Gideon Rachman thinks it’s the US president — not Mr Macron — who is capturing the Hegelian Zeitgeist: “I doubt Trump has much to say about Hegel....
...His apartment is “a micro-V&A” of eclectic religious artefacts and exotic antiquities....
...Charles Giovanni Vanzan Coutinho Managing Director, Charles Coutinho, LLC, New York, NY, US...
...album Customs and Fashions of the Turks (created while on trade mission to Constantinople), a monumental tapestry recounting the Habsburg victory at Tunis (the most expensive work of art Emperor Charles V...
...Charles Giovanni Vanzan Coutinho, Managing Director, Charles Coutinho LLC, New York, NY, US...
...The tale of the First Folio — its banishment, return and critical re-evaluation — reminds us that it is our libraries that offer texts a physical refuge from diaspora....
...In the Royal Opera’s visually striking new production of Don Giovanni, the opera’s climax, which normally sees the chastened – or perhaps not – seducer dragged into the flames of hell, is given a radical...
...Madeleine Albright [the former US secretary of state] collects Gijs Bakker....
...Charles Giovanni Vanzan Coutinho, New York, NY, US...
...There, he would have discovered the work of Giovanni Bellini, another painter probably inspired both by Piero and by Flemish art....
...If we surrender to paganism, Marsyas’s fate awaits us all. The majestic finale is a last sight of the St Lawrence painting as we descend the staircase that leads us to the exit....
...The only virtual certainty is that the new pope will not come from the US, on account of its position as the world’s most powerful country....
...Gianni Agnelli once said: “Not having the name of a city has brought us great popularity. It makes us national.” Few institutions in divided Italy can make that claim....
...“You’ve gone all cuddly on us,” I say to Grayson Perry....
...His father ran a corn store, his uncles were notaries; their local status gave him social confidence when he joined Giovanni Bellini’s studio as an apprentice, then became an assistant to Giorgione....
...Attempts to work out what they say about us have been around nearly as long....
...The two other works are Sonate à trois (inspired by Sartre’s Huis clos ) and Webern Opus V ....
...As Uberto, aka James V, he sailed the tenor stratosphere with nonchalant elegance, articulated the fiorature with communicative grace and acted with dignified urgency. A paragon....
...The second of the three galleries is occupied by garden sculptures by the likes of Antonio Corradini and Giovanni Bologna (Giambologna), and they now look out on a garden....
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