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...The Romans made laurel wreaths from gold and gave them to gladiators, blood mingling with metal. The Emperor of China had his servants craft them from pith paper. The Italians liked silkworm shells....
...British tennis player Fred Perry, who won Wimbledon three times, launched his version in 1952 with a laurel wreath as its signifier....
...While Ding received the traditional laurel wreath and winner’s medal at the closing ceremony, Nepomniachtchi took off his loser’s medal and did not join in the applause....
...., miglior fabbro”, the better craftsman; the laurel wreath Dante had bestowed on the troubadour Arnaut Daniel....
...If a laurel wreath were to be awarded to the pianist with the longest career in history (in fact, she has just signed a new deal with Decca Classics), it would surely be hers....
...Unfortunately, with only 15 minutes to go, the production careers wildly off target, pepping up the final scene like a ridiculous fancy dress party with the chorus kitted out in togas and gold laurel wreaths...
...Perhaps it’s not so strange to imagine that tomorrow’s wreaths might be made not from laurel but pixels....
...wreath and a lion’s head....
...The Greeks and Romans were the first enthusiasts, decorating wreaths and laurels with colourful jewels, gold and silver....
...I live in Paris, in Montmartre, a quartier with two boulangeries to every block — many of them displaying the gold laurel wreath of a former winner of the Meilleure Baguette de Paris — but I regarded the...
...Today, the bones of the teenage girl lie under a paving slab marked with a laurel wreath, a symbol of the Roman republic....
...The sculptor doesn’t idealise the king, but accentuates his age and determination, dispensing with such fripperies as the royal headband and the laurel wreath....
...A gold-tressed, bare-breasted hybrid of the Ovidian goddess of spring and Petrarch’s Amore, complete with laurel wreath and posy of wild flowers, she marks the Renaissance turn towards the allegorical portrait...
...Jonathan Richardson’s portrait of the poet in left-side profile wearing a laurel wreath makes him look like a Roman, which was in a sense what he wanted to be; he based his writing on life on that of Horace...
...wreath, signifying the triumph of death....
...You can’t rest on your laurels forever. There has to be change.”...
...wreath of human flourishing....
...And maybe that heightened the epic sense of the evening, as Avdeeva set out to justify her victor’s laurel wreath in the longest, most demanding programme she could devise....
...Apart from the laurel wreath on his head – a playful reference to de Chirico’s laurel-crowned self-portraits – it already reveals Penn’s desire to strip his sitters bare of references to their trades, the...
...outer border with coloured laurel wreath and ribbon motifs....
...Roman motifs carved in the base include stiff leaf, anthemion, palmettes, laurel wreaths and swags of husks – the latter centred on an oval portrait medallion of a Roman emperor. £350,000....
...wreath, seemed clichéd....
...wreath....
...You can imagine Federer reading this in the back of the courtesy car and trembling, while a slave holds the laurel wreath over his head....
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