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...If it was French, they’d form confréries, wear robes and shut down the town for four days every September just to celebrate it....
...When it was all over, Shankar, dressed in pristine white robes that bunched over his waist, was bundled into a white SUV with a small entourage and driven deeper into his ashram to greet more fans....
...The real-life medieval poet Marie de France — about whom so much is unknown — is Groff’s heroine....
...Abundant drapery, triad of blue robe against red curtain and green pillow, sensitive flesh tones, are all Venetian, but no Italian would have painted such awkward figures....
...In one, the robes of four disciples of Buddha melt into each other....
...Matthieu Ricard pops up on my iPhone screen, instantly recognisable by his warm smile and dark red and orange monastic robes....
...The Quattrocento master is far from unknown. But chiefly he is famed as the master to whom Leonardo da Vinci was apprenticed....
...An unknown artist literalised that last conceit in a scene showing the Lord Himself, wielding palette and brush, dabbing in the colours on the Virgin of Guadalupe....
...A barbaric, tilting dinner party of terrified guests is almost magically illumined by the unknown hand appearing, writing its warning message on the wall, in the translucent “Belshazzar’s Feast”....
...In the UK he is almost unknown. Not that this worries him. “When I work here I feel I’m still studying the theatre,” he tells me when the company break for lunch....
...It changes something . . . makes it different from them having an unknown fate.”...
...“When we see a mountain it feels like a confrontation with this terrifying wall of the unknown,” Tschiember says....
...My favourite websites include 1stdibs.com, where I buy furniture; I recently found a mid-1960s rattan bench by an unknown designer through a French dealer....
...A rare example of Van Dyck’s precociousness, a portrait of an unknown old man dated 1613, is on display in New York at the Frick Collection’s new exhibition, Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture....
...The third Oman Desert Marathon began earlier this month after a ceremonial dance by the villagers of Bidiyah, wearing white robes with swords and iPhones tucked inside their belts....
...At once hugely famous and totally unknown, the Fat Jew’s rise reflects the increasingly disparate ways in which we consume comedy....
...Prosecutor Sasha Wass QC, her black cowboy boots sticking out under her barrister’s robe, pointed to his various online trading accounts and his bank statements that hovered around zero....
...Paradoxically, his “slavish” adherence to this system allowed him to enter the realm of the unknown....
...Here, while performing the rituals of pilgrimage, he took surreptitious notes, drawing sketch maps on the inside of his white pilgrim’s robe....
...There, an array of courtiers’ robes, woven in silk and gold and blazoned with the dragons of the Qing dynasty, glows quietly behind glass. But one gown doesn’t match the others....
...The flowing robes of the 53-year-old chime with the ultraconservative Gulf, while their couture house origins are feted by fashion journalists and designers....
...We will never know Hamilton’s full intentions for “The Unknown Masterpiece”, but the piece resonates sombrely, wittily, with London’s art frenzy this week....
...The real curatorial triumph, however, is the presence of the Alana Collection’s portrait of a young man (1425-27), whose authorship is unknown....
...The churches remained all but unknown to the outside world until 1966, but today new roads and decent lodgings are opening up the region....
...Every time it deviates towards the preposterous or the gonzo-surreal (nun masks and robes for one raid), Affleck as director/co-writer wrenches it back to the straight and arrow-like....
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