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...In two centuries, this building and its decor, as well as its collections, have welcomed so many diverse individual contributions — Edward Barry’s sumptuous enfilade of galleries around the Octagon room...
...Its crowning glory is an enormous gilt wood Venus shell headboard. Clearly I have a type. Last but not least in my trio: the fabric-covered four-poster at Dumfries House in Scotland....
...Lindemann seemed pleased as punch from his Frieze LA booth, where he also reported healthy sales through his gallery, Venus Over Manhattan....
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...have been missing that Venus touch....
...An object I’d never part with is a small Giambologna bronze Venus holding the tools of architecture. I’ve had it for several years and I want to be buried with it....
...It took me a little while longer to discover Edward William Godwin....
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-March....
...In this Arcadian landscape of shadowy glades, pools and grottoes, statues of fauns, Pan, Venus, a dying gladiator and other mythical characters materialise at every turn. The beauty is haunting....
...One of them was a famous naked Venus, pieced together artfully from ancient fragments so as to resemble the pose of Florence’s Medici Venus, that icon for randy male Grand Tourists....
...Separately, Russia claimed Venus as a “Russian planet”....
...The orchestra, under Sian Edwards, supplies at least some of the sparkle missing from this otherwise rather charmless show. ★★☆☆☆ To November 28, eno.org...
...(FT) Ivanka Trump’s G20 performance puzzles world leaders The abiding image from this year’s G20 summit will not be Donald Trump sharing another chuckle with Vladimir Putin, writes Edward Luce....
...In the era’s lone masterpiece, Warhol stretches out on a huge studio couch, mimicking Titian’s Venus....
...Felus catches the often-missed erotic references in several garden buildings in the park at Stowe, including William Kent’s Temple of Venus....
...It has a darker side too, “like a Venus flytrap”....
...His friend Edward Burne-Jones complained that Leighton’s paintings were “not quite believable” – which was surely their point....
...Edward Thomas’s Collected Poems. A notebook for recording 4am satori. Which book changed your life? Donna Tartt’s The Secret History....
...We claim a distinguished roster of elders: Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Gorey, Georges Bataille, WG Sebald and Susan Sontag....
...Hanging in the Royal Academy near the “Rokeby Venus” that year was David Bomberg’s extraordinary painting “The Mud Bath”, a riot of angular forms....
...Richard Field, the Stratford-born printer and schoolmate of Shakespeare, who published the dramatist’s Venus and Adonis in 1593, was one such....
...One of many splendid works it sold is Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus”, now in London’s National Gallery. The firm has been running down stock, and the remainder will be disposed of gradually....
...From Sir Edward Dashwood....
...And his youthful passion for drama, ballet, mythology and classical themes of love came full circle in Venus und Adonis (1997) and L’Upupa (2003), the latter exhibiting a Flute-like retrospective wisdom....
...Mr Kagan, who also wrote Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus, the provocative post-Iraq book, has written a clear and powerfully-argued essay....
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