The home is opulently decorated, with high ceilings and chandeliers.
|
|
GOVERNORS ISLAND, N.Y. — They are salty, sumptuous and often served opulently on ice.
|
|
In the "Story of Virginia" especially, the colors are opulently jewel-like and the composition exquisitely symmetrical.
|
|
Many details, like the wallpaper that evokes the opulently stylized folding screens painted by Ogata Korin, are lovely.
|
|
In the opulently decorated lounge, guests can relax on plush couches and chairs and enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks.
|
|
Rihanna, 22018, wore a papal mitre (a ceremonial head-dress of bishops) and an opulently bejeweled strapless mini dress with a matching collared robe.
|
|
Rihanna, 30, wore a papal mitre (a ceremonial head-dress of bishops) and an opulently bejeweled strapless mini dress with a matching collared robe.
|
|
Men's suits seem to range in price from $3,000 to $6,000, and the opulently elegant "Shearling caban jacket" will cost you a cool $8,495.
|
|
Disney Plus This sleek #MeToo drama looks expensive — it was opulently filmed and stars the A-listers Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell.
|
|
Its opulently decorated rooms have been restored based on archival research, and slight modifications have been made to turn the building into a functioning museum.
|
|
Even so, Patrizia Ciofi and Dietrich Henschel gave vibrant, nuanced performances of the lead roles, and the composer-conductor Johannes Kalitzke marshalled an opulently raging orchestra.
|
|
She's holding pencils with which she has drawn the figure of her autistic son, a boy wearing a red helmet and a cloak of opulently patterned fabric.
|
|
Others acquired these grand residences (or their fireplaces, staircases and opulently paneled rooms) without benefit of marriage, either buying them outright or having them dismantled and shipped to our shores.
|
|
Early in the exhibition you'll encounter several nearly matching hand-scroll portrait-icons of her opulently dressed, bending over her writing table — a lacquered wood example is also on view.
|
|
He has castigated the whole of the Philippine clergy for living opulently amid poverty, sexually abusing children and opposing a popular law requiring state clinics to provide free birth control.
|
|
Final is an enigmatic company that builds some of the best cheap earphones as well as some of the most opulently expensive ones, and it's clearly unafraid to stray into luxury territory.
|
|
A few preparations point toward higher culinary aspirations, like mussels steamed in a garlicky beer broth pepped up with herbs and Old Bay, or an opulently creamy, Cognac-rich chicken-liver pâté.
|
|
Desserts — all homemade — include a supremely fudgy chocolate hazelnut torte and a hot and crunchy apple crisp, made with local apples and opulently creamy vanilla ice cream from Granby's own Grass Roots Creamery.
|
|
Last year, the star turned heads when she wore an ornate papal mitre (a ceremonial head-dress of bishops) with an opulently bejeweled, strapless mini dress and matching collared robe by Maison Margiela Artisinal.
|
|
In June, I stayed at the Kaley House, an opulently restored bed-and-breakfast owned by Jay Yost, who grew up in Red Cloud and now works as a private banker in New York.
|
|
The show is promising from the start, in the lobby, which is festooned with 25 opulently embroidered and appliquéd banners by Cauleen Smith, a Chicago artist whose work is also in the film program.
|
|
She teamed a papal mitre (a ceremonial head-dress of bishops) with an opulently bejeweled strapless mini dress and a matching collared robe, appropriately making her the supreme leader of the Met Gala red carpet.
|
|
Such was the case with Henry IV, duke of Saxony, and his bride, Catherine of Mecklenburg, whose 1514 portraits by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder were opulently adorned in the colors of their coats of arms.
|
|
As an attempt to show that the Gotti family wasn't as terrifying as the media made them out to be, Victoria — daughter of the infamous John Gotti — and her three sons invited the world into their opulently decorated home.
|
|
"It's an absolute privilege and pleasure to call Highclere Castle my home and I am delighted to be able to share it on Airbnb for a truly unique stay," Lady Carnarvon said of the opulently decorated, 300-room castle.
|
|
Equipped with a presidential suite comprising Saddam's private quarters, dining rooms and bedrooms, as well as 17 smaller guest rooms, 18 cabins for crew and a clinic, the opulently equipped and decorated vessel was put on the market for $30 million.
|
|
Opulently recorded—its production costs exceeded $100,000, a vast expense at the time—"No Other" was released by Asylum, a record label home to nearly all the biggest and hippest folk-rock, country-rock and singer-songwriter acts of the day.
|
|
Though its origins are ancient and the practice controversial (because of captive breeding and the import and export of birds), Qatari sheikhs have turned what was once a means of survival into a modern and, as one might imagine, opulently surreal spectacle.
|
|
When the Tuunbaq dies in the finale, rotted from within by all of the opulently spoiled British souls it's just gobbled, the implication is clear: You can't stop progress, but you also can't stop the way it eventually destroys things that really are beautiful and pure.
|
|
The first summer season of the fabled Salzburg Festival under the artistic direction of Markus Hinterhäuser will offer the concerts and opulently cast operas it is known for — including Anna Netrebko singing the title role in Verdi's "Aida" with Riccardo Muti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic — but also a rethinking of its purpose.
|
|
It sets out to survey the amazing plethora of progressive European trends that helped jump-start American design in the 1920s: the more austere styles emerging from the German Bauhaus, the Dutch de Stijl movement and Scandinavia, as well as those from Vienna, where European modern design coalesced, opulently, at the turn of the century.
|
|
Dana Rubinstein (April 25, 2011) "Opulently Hidden, In Plain Sight", The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2013-09-25.Josh Barbanel (June 4, 2011) "Condo Doubles for Tennis Star", The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
|
|
He asks Zeus to give Daphne new life in the form of one of the trees she loves. Daphne is transformed, and she rejoices in her union with nature. This transformation scene, the metamorphosis, is opulently silvery in the string section.
|
|
His paint is delivered with loaded brush in hand, opulently, generously and aggressively. Fuller Potter is considered one of the major abstract painters of the 20th century. He died of emphysema in May 1990 at Westerly Hospital in Westerly, Rhode Island. He was 80 years old.
|
|
Two vagrants break through a window into an opulently furnished house. They hide in a closet just as the owner of the house, a bearded gentleman, enters. The owner, astonished by the mess the vagrants have made, berates his housemaid. A glazier comes in to fix the window.
|
|
The building has four doors in total. The waterside entrance opens onto a large hall. On both sides of the entrance hall, two staircases rise to upper floor. A large chandelier hangs from a dome-shaped ceiling, which is opulently decorated with curving branches and clusters of various flower motifs.
|
|
In both cases the huaco is associated with ceramic complexity (in its volume or decoration) and not with regular use as a container on account of its physical dimensions. The slender Incan vessels known as aryballos, even opulently created examples, are not usually considered huacos since their utilitarian character is too pronounced.
|
|
"Real History in 'Alexander'". The Washington Post 43. Harrison's Reports wrote, "Beautifully photographed in CinemaScope and Technicolor, it is without a doubt one of the most opulently mounted pictures ever produced, a magnificent eye-filling epic with a scope and splendor that is alone worth the price of admission to see.""'Alexander the Great' with Richard Burton, Fredric March and Claire Bloom".
|
|
The Times, 6 December 1979, p. 11: "A feast of glorious singing in opulently inventive music"Boston Globe, 21 October 1989, p. 10The Times, 22 June 1982, p. 15 Berenice in Scipio for the Handel Opera Society at Sadler's Wells,The Times, 19 October 1972, p. 11 and Morgana in Alcina at Aix en Provence.The Times, 3 August 1978, p.
|
|
It was built in 1881 for James Cooper, a wealthy importer, manufacturer, and retailer of shoes. It was one of many mansions in the Sherbourne and Jarvis area, once among Toronto's wealthiest. The eight bedroom house was opulently constructed in the Second Empire style with Classical detailing. The City of Toronto designated the structure a heritage property and affixed a Heritage Toronto plaque in 2010.
|
|
Buick Skylark GS, 1970 455 Stage 1 The Gran Sport name has been used on several high-performance cars built by Buick since 1965. In the GM brands hierarchy, Buick was surpassed in luxury and comfort appointments only by Cadillac, which did not produce performance models. As a result, the Buick GS series were the most opulently equipped GM sport models of their era.
|
|
Hibbert restored the house and furnished it opulently but soon found it too big for her taste and too far from London. She then moved to a two-storey penthouse apartment at Albert Court, Kensington Gore, London that overlooked the Royal Albert Hall and Hyde Park. She shared her apartment with Mrs Molly Pascoe, a companion who also travelled with her. In 1985 Hibbert sold King's Lodging.
|
|
Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, and George James Hopkins won an Academy Award for Best Production Design for art direction of the film. Beaton's inspiration for the library in Higgins' home, where much of the action takes place, was a room at the Château de Groussay, Montfort-l'Amaury, in France, which had been decorated opulently by its owner Carlos de Beistegui. Hats were created by Parisian milliner at Beaton's request.
|
|
Close by there are also a number of sports clubs, a shooting range and many night clubs. Tourism in Vilamoura is extensive and well-developed, with many different resorts with ratings from three to five stars. This is a substantially higher average than the surrounding areas, which have ratings varying from two to four. As a consequence of being mostly privately owned, the town is very opulently designed.
|
|
Other walls are whitewashed: the structure underneath is now made of brick, although it was probably made of adobe originally. At the time of Bolívar's birth, the home was opulently furnished with mahogany chests and tables, upholstered chairs, decorated mirrors; damask curtains, gold cornices, and bright chandeliers. Period furniture and artifacts belonging to Bolívar can now be seen in the building. The house has a sequence of courtyards surrounded by corridors and rooms.
|
|
Hindu Wedding cards or invitations hallmark Hindu marriage rituals and customs which are entangled with eternal bonding, affection and blessing. The lavish traditions are highlighted with opulently colored Hindu wedding invitations aesthetically designed in handmade paper and designs enriched with heart-felt emotions. Hindu invitations symbolize glitter, lively mood and fun of the matrimonial ceremony. These cards are not only to inform and invite rather they express style and theme of the special day.
|
|
Balduin reinstated Johann again to the burgrave, but only as his subject and no longer as a free knight. In 1472 the Rübenach house, built in the Late Gothic style, was completed. Remarkable are the Rübenach Lower Hall, a living room, and the Rübenach bedchamber with its opulently decorated walls. Started in 1470 by Philipp zu Eltz, the 10-story Greater Rodendorf House takes its name from the family's land holding in Lorraine.
|
|
Playbill from the Nixon Theatre, Pittsburgh for a 1911 Sarah Bernhardt performance of L'Aiglon Nixon came to control theaters across the Midwest. On 7 December 1903 Samuel F. Nixon opened the Nixon Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the corner of 6th Avenue and William Penn Place. The ornate Beaux Arts style building was opulently decorated. The interior featured massive fake-marble columns capped with gold, framed wall panels that seemed like damask silk, and velvet and silk draperies.
|
|
The Charity of Saints Cosmas and Damian Ambrosius Francken I is known for religious works and historical allegories. He made large altarpieces for churches in Antwerp that replaced the many artworks that had disappeared during the iconoclastic fervour of the Beeldenstorm a few decades before. His compositions depicting muscular figures based on classical prototypes exercised an important influence on contemporary artists. His style shows the influence of Marten de Vos in the opulently draped robes and other details.
|
|
"Prizes: Just Doing the Job". TIME, 15 May 1964. Retrieved July 13, 2010. As part of his efforts to see how much it would take to spend $30 on a meal in 1963 —when two could dine opulently for $15 —Waldron and a colleague went to an expensive Miami restaurant. They ordered Caesar salads, sirloin steaks, desserts and two brandies, and hit their $30 target by paying for the glasses the brandy came in and adding a $5 tip.
|
|
The 2003 film American Wedding used the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California, as the filming location for the wedding venue. The Ritz also features in the Irving Berlin song "Puttin' On the Ritz" in which the hotel chain served as an inspiration for the titular expression, meaning to live opulently. In 2015, the rapper Plies released the song "Ritz Carlton". In the song, he raps about his affinity for routinely spending time at the lavish hotel.
|
|
Since the construction of his violins clearly show Italian influences but does not allow direct references, some dealers tend to interpret this section of his curriculum vitae as an advertising measure. Heinicke himself used clear indications of this on his opulently designed letterheads and envelopes. Heinicke developed into one of the main representatives of violin makers in Bohemia in the first half of the 20th century. After his return in 1897, he set up his own workshop in Wildstein near Eger.
|
|
The Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Pittsburgh, an opulently decorated edifice with elaborate Old World flourishes is one of the finest examples of the so-called Polish Cathedral style, dominating the skyline over Polish Hill. The Allegheny County Courthouse (1886), designed by H.H. Richardson, is a unique and influential building. At 42 stories, the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning (1937) is the second tallest collegiate building in the world. The tallest skyscraper in Pittsburgh is the triangular U.S. Steel Tower.
|
|
Town Hall with gateway arch building The old town core is small. It is distinguished by a many timber-frame buildings, some opulently painted and decorated, in which the Rhenish influences on the Hessian-Franconian timber-frame building style can already be seen. Therefore, Idstein is part of the German Framework Road. The town core stretches between the castle area with its Hexenturm and the Höerhof, the representative timber-frame building built in 1620–1626 by the palace building master on the heights across from the Schloss.
|
|
The church designed by Henry Engelbert in a Romanesque- Byzantine style, was completed in 1889. The brick exterior hides a lavishly shaped and opulently decorated interior enriched with stations of the cross and stained glass windows with Polish inscriptions. Three domes sail above, the central dome lit by a ring of lantern windows and towering over the neighborhood. Since 1999, the church has undergone extensive restoration of the original structure, the interior decoration by John A. Mallin in 1961 and the 1928 Austin organ, Opus 1602.
|
|
Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet Gorgolewski's plan for the Lviv Opera. The Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet is built in the classical tradition using forms and details of Renaissance and Baroque architecture, also known as the Viennese neo- Renaissance style. The stucco mouldings and oil paintings on the walls and ceilings of the multi-tiered auditorium and foyer give it a richly festive appearance. The Opera's imposing facade is opulently decorated with numerous niches, Corinthian columns, pilasters, balustrades, cornices, statues, reliefs and stucco garlands.
|
|
This period of the theatre was captured by Walter Sickert in a series of paintings in 1892. The theatre was rebuilt to a design by Wylson and Long, with a conventional stage, 1,040 seats including boxes, domed ceiling and opulently decorated interior, and reopened on 31 January 1893. In 1891, George Robey and in 1895, Harry Tate made their solo debuts on the stage. In 1917, the hall was converted into a legitimate theatre, and the musical The Better 'Ole, by the well-known cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather, enjoyed a run of 811 performances.
|
|
The courtroom holds its breath as Sharon tells her heartbreaking story of being a young woman in love who grew distant from her husband because of his long hours as a doctor. Her affair with the Governor was a fairy tale as Van Allan treated her opulently. Upon telling him of her pregnancy he offered to leave his wife and marry her after the election, but only if she aborted their child. Sharon describes the abortion in graphic detail and how it sickened her to end the life of her first child.
|
|
Built in 1929, Ocean House—later called simply the Beach House—was a hot spot on Santa Monica's Gold Coast in the 1930s and 1940s, as William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies entertained Hollywood's elite at Davies' estate. Actress Colleen Moore is reported to have called Ocean House "the biggest house on the beach—the beach between San Diego and Vancouver". Built from designs by Julia Morgan, the complex consisted of five opulently furnished Georgian Revival buildings, including a three-story 110-room mansion where Hearst and Davies lived. The four guest houses were used by Davies' family, guests, and 32 servants.
|
|
Originally, this station was planned to be opulently decorated in the manner of the other stations built in the 1950s, with mosaics by venerable artist Vladimir Favorsky along the insides of the arches between the pylons. However, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's attack on decorative "excessions", the place for mosaics, including existing mosaics as well, were crudely coated with incongruous thick green paint. The original circular vestibule is located on the west side of Prospekt Mira, in front of the Space Obelisk. In 1996, the station got an additional pavilion for entrance-exit needs at the southern side of the station.
|
|
For retirement, Cranston took residence in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,where his large and opulently decorated home and studio, as well as his painting became his main artistic forms of expression. Cranston's work often incorporated themes related to skating. In 2010, Cranston came back to skating for a short time as a guest judge for Battle of the Blades, a figure skating reality competition show on CBC Television. In 2013, he was appointed as the Official Artist of Skate Canada and produced the signature poster for the 2013 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in London, Ontario.
|
|
Opulently furnished with large-scale paintings by Hubert Robert, the spacious rooms fitted with Beauharnais' great demands. However, the Viceroy had little opportunity to reside at his Paris home. When Napoleon married the Habsburg archduchess Marie Louise in 1810, he used the Hôtel as a guest house for Beauharnais' father-in-law, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. After the French defeat in the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the premises were first rented and finally purchased by Prussia under King Frederick William III in 1818 and became the seat of the Prussian legation.
|
|
Emma Eames as Aida During her prime, Eames possessed an opulently beautiful, aristocratic and expertly trained soprano voice. It began as a purely lyric instrument but increased in size over time, enabling her to sing parts as heavy as Aida, Sieglinde, Santuzza and Tosca in large auditoriums. Music critics occasionally took her to task, however, for the coldness of her interpretations and aloof stage manner. Eames was reportedly unhappy with the way that she sounded on the series of commercial 78-rpm recordings she made in 1905-1911 for the Victor Talking Machine Company, and Victor technicians were equally unhappy with her imperious attitude in the studio.
|
|
Standing near her is an opulently dressed man, thought to be "Beau" Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (the dress he wears is said to be the very same he wore to his birthday in the year of the painting's creation)Sala, p.273 The two huddle together in admiration over the minute porcelain cup held by the lady and saucer held by the lord.Porter, p.189 Also part of the company is another woman clutching the chin of a black page boy wearing a turban - thought to be designed after Ignatius Sancho, an actor and writer, in his youthNichols and Steevens, Hogarth's Works, ii, 158, iii.
|
|
Because it was both headquarters for the Foundation and a physical memorial for Sage, the building was more opulently constructed than would generally be the case for a charity. Atterbury utilized expensive materials in the interior, such as rare Kingwood sandstone in the elevators. The 1922-1923 alteration added second floor sculptural panels by Rene Paul Chambellan illustrating the foundation's ideals, goals and deeds. The Foundation made available space in the main building, at no charge, to other social-service organizations, such as the Family Welfare Association of America, the American Association of Social Workers and the Library of Social Work, which took up the top two floors of the main building.
|
|
There are three main sets: the Prince's quarters, which are opulently decorated, the below-stairs kitchen hangout of Blackadder and Baldrick, which is dark and squalid (though, in fairness, very large and with a very high ceiling), and finally Mrs. Miggins' coffeehouse. Mrs. Miggins' pie shop was a never-seen running gag in Blackadder II; a descendant of hers is now finally shown, played by Helen Atkinson-Wood. The plots feature rotten boroughs, Dr. Samuel Johnson (played by Robbie Coltrane), the French Revolution (featuring Chris Barrie) and the Scarlet Pimpernel, over-the-top theatrical actors, squirrel-hating female highwaymen, the practice of settling quarrels with a duel and the discussion of tactics with Duke of Wellington (played by Stephen Fry).
|
|
"Chief of Building Workers' Union Leaves With $1.5 Million", The New York Times, February 3, 1999. Accessed September 28, 2010. CUNY Graduate Center professor Stanley Aronowitz called Bevona as being "in the tradition of an authoritarian, top-down patriarchal type of leadership" that was "in the egregious tradition of the Teamsters and other unions", while The New York Post called him "the last of the city's labor barons". In the years after Bevona's departure, the 13-room penthouse used by Bevona as his headquarters, which included marble on the floors of its four conference rooms, bathroom showers that could be used as steam rooms and an apartment with an opulently equipped kitchen, was converted into what was called a "member action center".
|
|
The Palm Court The Ritz's most widely known facility is the Palm Court, an opulently decorated cream-coloured Louis XVI setting. It is decorated with lavish furnishings, including gilded Louis XVI armchairs with oval backs, which the architects had designed based on research into French neo-classical furniture design of the 1760s and 1770s, which were made by Waring and Gillow. The room, with its, "panelled mirrors of bevelled glass in gilt bronze frames" and "high coving ornamented with gilded trellis-work", according to Montgomery-Massingberd and Watkin "epitomizes the elegantly frivolous comfort of Edwardian high life". There were originally large windows at either end of the court, then known as the Winter Garden, and were replaced with twenty panels of mirrors after 1972.
|
|
Accessed 29 December 2007; The Concert Writing in The New Yorker, Alex Ross suggested that the growth of classical music blogs (from dozens when he started his own blog in 2004 to hundreds by 2007) could also be a positive force for maintaining and possibly building the audience for classical music. By giving performers and composers a far wider voice than they ever had before, their blogs put a human face on what Ross termed an "alien culture". He went on to write, "If, as people say, the Internet is a paradise for geeks, it would logically work to the benefit of one of the most opulently geeky art forms in history." Alex Ross, 'The Well-tempered Web, The New Yorker, October 22, 2007.
|
|
Weighty and structured, they are minimal and expressionist at the same time, while his images contradict their common association with fragility. "Sultan pushes the boundaries of painting as he virtually sculpts the painting into pictures that are minimal but opulently rich," notes columnist R. Couri Hay, a former editor of Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine in his 2011 profile of Sultan for the Hamptons Magazine. The process of making these painting, suggests The New York Times, is technically so complex and, consequently, so painstakingly slow, that finishing "a single painting can take up to a month, so that Mr. Sultan's annual output is 12 to 18 paintings." The format of Sultan's paintings is almost always dictated by the tiles: one-foot squares, eight-foot squares, or most recently, four and eight-foot squares.
|
|
A number of the most architecturally significant churches of the Archdiocese of Chicago were built as national parishes by Lithuanian immigrants such as Holy Cross, Providence of God, Nativity BVM which is dedicated to Our Lady of Šiluva, and the now demolished St. George's in Bridgeport. Opulently decorated with a proclivity towards Renaissance and Baroque ornamentation, Lithuanian churches were designed in the spirit of the architecture of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth's heyday. Like Chicago's Polish Cathedral's, these churches were statements meant to recall an era when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania spanned from the Baltic to the Black Sea, having been built at a time when Lithuania was under Russian occupation and incorporating Lithuanian imagery in its decor such as the Vytis to invoke pride in Lithuanian culture.
|
|
The soundtrack album was well received by music critics, who praised the soulful compositions and called them "melodious and fresh". R.M. Vijayakar of India-West gave the album 4.5 out of 5, calling it "unforgettable" and complimented the use of musical instruments and orchestration, noting portions of the score as the most significant standout. Firstpost gave a highly positive review, praising the "elegantly arranged and opulently orchestrated" songs and writing, "exhilarating soundtrack ... recreates an era gone-by through sounds that are authentic ... yet operatic, steeped in the classical ethos, yet contemporary". Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama gave a rating of 3.5 out of 5, calling it "high on classical base" and saying half of the compositions were situational and narrative-based that can "be expected to make a good impression on screen".
|
|
These rooms were created when the salon du degré du roi and the cabinet aux tableaux of Louis XIV were destroyed (Le Guillou, 1985). The salon des pendules (1740 plan #3) (also called the salon ovale due to its elliptic shape) was given this name due to the dials arranged in the apsidal recess of the eastern wall that showed the times of the rising and setting of the sun and the moon (Verlet 1985, p. 450). The cabinet intérieur (1740 plan #4) served a number of purposes: it housed part of Louis XV numismatic collection and collection of miniature paintings; it served as a dining room; and, it served as a workroom. Of all the rooms of the petit appartement du roi during the reign of Louis XV, this was perhaps one of the most richly decorated and opulently appointed (Verlet 1985, p. 452).
|
|
As at 5 July 2004, one of the most opulently Spanish houses in Australia. Boomerang has historic, aesthetic and social significance as an exemplary example of large scale Spanish Mission/ Hollywood Spanish mansion and garden in an urban setting, in relatively intact condition, demonstrating the lifestyle possible of wealthy merchant of the 1920s, and the kind of social milieu possible and popular among that class at the time. It has technical and research significance a rare example of domestic architecture of Neville Hampson in Sydney, and as a rare intact example of the landscape design of Max Shelley, a garden designer active in 1920s Sydney and South Australia from the 1930s onward, with an integration of house and garden rarely seen in Australia. Boomerang has added historic significance as it incorporates landscape remnants of the former Macleay Elizabeth Bay estate garden, namely remnant trees from the grounds of the Hall of Macleay's Linnean Society of NSW (1885).
|
|
This composition contains the typical symbols present in vanitas paintings: a skull, a burning candle and an hourglass. The flowers in high bloom and the butterflies also refer to the fleetingness of things.Joris van Son, Allegory on Human Life at the Walters Art MuseumJoris van Son, Memento Mori at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Another garland painting with vanitas motif is the Three Putti with Vanitas Symbols within a Decorated Cartouche (At Lempertz on 15 November 2014, Cologne, Lot 1072) where the typical symbols of vanitas also appear: a skull, soap bubbles and opulently glittering vases which reference the transience of things and, in particular, of earthly wealth.Joris van Son (Attributed), Three Putti with Vanitas Symbols within a Decorated Cartouche at Lempertz A pure vanitas painting is the Vanitas still-life with a skull, a pistol, a lute with broken strings, a flute (At Christie's on 10 December 2004, London lot 59), in which a wide range of vanitas symbols are displayed on a table.
|
|
No really adequate recording has been made of Schmidt's second and last opera Fredigundis, of which there has been but one "unauthorized" release in the early 1980s on the Voce label of an Austrian Radio broadcast of a 1979 Vienna performance under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer. Aside from numerous "royal fanfares" (Fredigundis held the French throne in the sixth century) the score contains some fine examples of Schmidt's transitional style between his earlier and later manner. In many respects, Schmidt seldom ventured so far from traditional tonality again, and his third and final period (in the last decade-and-a-half of his life) was generally one of (at least partial) retrenchment, consolidation and the integration of the style of his opulently scored and melodious early compositions (the First Symphony, "Notre Dame") with elements of the overt experimentation seen in "Fredigundis", combined with an economy of utterance born of artistic maturity. New Grove encyclopaedia states that Fredigundis was a critical and popular failure, which may be partly attributable to the fact that Fredigundis (Fredegund, the widow of Chilperic I), is presented as a murderous and sadistic feminine monster.
|
|
Under the Pendulum Sun was a finalist for the 2018 British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel,2018 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist, by Mike Glyer, at File 770; published July 6, 2018; retrieved September 16, 2018 and earned Ng the 2018 Best Newcomer award.2018 British Fantasy Awards, by Mike Glyer, at File770; published October 21, 2018; retrieved October 21, 2018 Ng also won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2019 Hugo Awards. In the Guardian, Adam Roberts called it "strange, brooding and occasionally perverse" and "opulently atmospheric".The best science fiction and fantasy of 2017, by Adam Roberts, at the Guardian; published November 30, 2017; retrieved September 16, 2018 SYFY declared it to be one of the 10 best novels of 2017, stating that its "world-building and atmosphere are just incredible" and emphasizing its Gothic tone. The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2017, by Swapna Krishna, at SYFY; published December 18, 2017; retrieved September 16, 2018 Publishers Weekly considered it "intriguing but unfocused", with "possibilities (that) are fascinating" and "period touches (that) satisfy", but an "unwieldy" plot.
|
|