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...Virgil, in the Aeneid, borrowed from Greek epic forms to create a foundational story for the Romans....
...Shown in the Maison de l’Unesco, this was a diplomatic tour de force of designer innovation, fashion engagement and don’t-scare-the-horses luxury stalwarts....
...Many were fantasy proposals — stretch jersey lit from within, as if mapping a constellation across the body, a trompe l’oeil print impersonating nudity, a conch shell as a handbag....
...This relocates Virgil’s legend from cave to modern office, but a typewriter transforms into a tree, and autumn leaves still flutter: at the gates of the Underworld, people ask the Sibyl their fates, and...
...“Onorate l’altissimo poeta!” — “Honour the supreme poet!” In Dante’s Divine Comedy, these words are said of Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory....
...Bernard Arnault and his luxury empire LVMH have acquired a majority stake in menswear designer Virgil Abloh’s Off-White label....
...Now, Zola having left for Paris, the pair corresponded in conversations based on Virgil’s “Eclogues”, while Cézanne buried himself in Stendhal’s “Histoire de la peinture en Italie”....
...fund backed by French luxury giant Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (and now known as L Catterton)....
...incarnations, from Lully to Verdi, from Mozart to Thomas Adès, via Puccini, Berg and Virgil Thomson, to mention but a few, all wildly different stylistically but still within the same tradition....
...To date, designers such as Valentino, Virgil Abloh and Gareth Pugh have participated....
...A few days before his latest Off-White show was all over social media, designer Virgil Abloh went viral for other reasons....
...Its landscape tradition goes back at least to Horace and Virgil, who tended to regard the pastoral and rural as natural and wilderness as supernatural and monstrous....
...In his introduction, James upbraids Dorothy L Sayers for her 1949-62 Penguin Classics translation of Dante....
...We agreed that even with its 19ft ceilings and 6ft wide frieze of frescoes – depicting scenes from Virgil’s Aeneid complete with goddesses, imprisoned mortals and winged putti – Palladio had somehow managed...
...The pastoral gardens inspired by Virgil’s Eclogues became so popular that one Sunday he counted 150 visitors....
...Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel, Canongate £14.99, 210 pages, FT Bookshop price £11.99 The narrator of Yann Martel’s third novel, a writer named Henry L’Hôte, is intended to remind us of someone....
...The visual arts responded only after the first world war when a Palmer revival, fronted by the wood-engraver F.L....
...We could have Samuel L. Jackson do Goethe. Gwyneth Paltrow, naturally, Shakespeare. Gerard Depardieu, Cervantes....
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