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...And the truth is that the English Landscape School is a mishmash of ideas and influences borrowed and reinterpreted by many, including the French artist Claude Lorrain (whose work appears in Compton Verney...
...On the landing upstairs live Mrs Pond (Alix Dunmore), suffering from PTSD, and her vulnerably needy 17-year-old daughter (Nell Williams)....
...“I see doors opening and knights setting off on horseback,” she told Claude Delay, a close friend and the writer of her 1974 biography. They also formed a sensational backdrop for her interiors....
...This aim was written into William Wilkins’ gracefully restrained, modestly scaled neoclassical building, speaking authority without intimidation....
...And in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, the international community seemed to have ratified Claude Joseph....
...I think what Claude does with mushrooms is incredibly interesting. [Claude Bosi’s restaurant at Bibendum has “Scottish cep, banana and crème fraîche” on the dessert menu.]...
...“In France one lives in the imagination of the past; in England everything is new and on an improved plan,” the essayist William Hazlitt wrote....
...South Africa’s Modern and contemporary successes — Gerard Sekoto, William Kentridge, Zanele Muholi and Cinga Samson — are also in the sale....
...For Gilpin, the Claude glass gave nature a pleasing and softened tinge....
...The chemical element neon – a colourless gas that glows red when placed in an electric field – was discovered in 1898 by British chemists Morris Travers and William Ramsay....
...An old auction label on the back of the panel reveals an early attribution to the artist through its 17th-century owner, Sir William Temple, diplomat and patron of the young Jonathan Swift....
...Get the party started on New Year’s Eve with dinner to live, immersive entertainment and a set by DJ Jean Claude Ades....
...Elsewhere, three paintings by Claude Monet from the late New York philanthropist Anne Bass made a combined $169mn at Christie’s, while another Monet, a 1908 painting of Venice, sold for $49mn ($56.6mn with...
...An indulgence I would never forgo is travelling to see a Christo and Jeanne-Claude installation anywhere in the world....
...I’ve just read the biography of Claude Mackay, Harlem Renaissance black guy in the ’30s who came to Britain and the first world war....
...Visitors to the coinciding Eye of the Collector showed an appetite for a new type of fair, with works dotted appealingly around Two Temple Place, the former home of William Waldorf Astor....
...A James Siena painting, Ssonsunurrhth, hangs in the library, alongside a sculpture, Bull, by William Byl....
...Angela Sant’albano Actress T-shirt: Les Misérables, opened 8 October 1985 at the Barbican Theatre, LondonMusic: Claude-Michel SchönbergLyrics: Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc NatelBook now: lesmis.com “I’...
...Also, Sotheby’s Paris on February 17-18 sold all 373 items from the private collection of the artist-duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude for €9.2m, including fees....
...lakes with trees crashed into them, broken bridges and the most extraordinary things,” he says, revealing that the research for his dissertation included a deep dive into the idylls of painters such as Claude...
...It was Jean-Claude Van Damme....
...Additional reporting from Aime Williams in Washington...
...With a rock crystal hilt studded with rubies, emeralds and onyx, this precious knife — made between 1620 and 1640 in northern India — was once the property of Claude Martin, a self-made businessman and soldier...
...Other pieces have been chosen for an air of gallery-like calm: a pair of stools by Charlotte Perriand, an oxidised bronze sculpture by Claude Vernet, and a pail-sized William Yeoward glass vase....
...Via Laurito 40, 84017 Positano (daadolfo.com) The best gift I’ve ever given is a bronze figurative sculpture, which I commissioned from my stepfather, the sculptor David Williams-Ellis, for my wife’s birthday...
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