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"Bearing hence" Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.(William Shakespeare)(Critical Essay)
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Hitherto unexplored wordplay in the early acts of The Winter's Tale involving forms of the word "bear" deepens our understanding of the importance for the play's design of a bear's notorious onstage pursuit and reported devouring of Antigonus. On the one hand, the wordplay confirms in a new way previous commentators' assertions that the bear symbolizes Leontes' savage authority over Antigonus and the king's responsibility for the courtier's death. On the other, it suggests that Camillo's transporting Polixenes out of Leontes' court and Florizel's carrying Perdita away from ...
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Departures.
Magazine article from: Travel Weekly (UK)
; ...there? Read on. Day one: Saint Quentin Head south out of Lille, taking the A1 and A26 to Saint Quentin, a pretty town on the border...here, as was the pastel master Maurice Quentin de la Tour, many of whose portraits hang...
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It may be bonnie, but it's not Prince Charlie, embarrassed art gallery chiefs discover
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...Prince Charlie by the French master Maurice- Quentin La Tour, has hung with pride in the Scottish...portrait of a cardinal with this La Tour pastel. It was a brilliant thing...The mystery is then how the La Tour pastel in the portrait gallery...
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The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...paintings by Francois Boucher and Maurice-Quentin de La Tour are among the most impressive of...Versailles, including Boucher and La Tour, Montesquieu, and Helvetius...detailed examination of the La Tour pastel portrait of 1755 that is...
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CHARDIN AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...pastels, with which his friend Maurice-Quentin La Tour had enjoyed great success, when...which underlies his composure. La Tour, who was no flatterer, had portrayed...passing academicians, including La Tour, saw his canvases and persuaded...
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History trumps aesthetics at Old Masters sales
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...The pastel self-portrait by Maurice Quentin de la Tour is a remarkable discovery for which...was in the possession of de la Tour's best friend, Alexander Neilson...price ever for any work by de la Tour, to save it for the museum.In...
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A craving for colour
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...reaction to the memory of being trained in a grim St Quentin school where the use of colour at all was banned...t offer anything much better than the pastels of Maurice Quentin de La Tour, and the rather pathetic offerings of the teachers...
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The art of pastel
Magazine article from: Southwest Art
; ...hundreds of pastel artists worked in Paris, of which one of the most brilliant was Maurice Quentin de La Tour [1704-1788]. Converted to pastel by Camera, La Tour's skillful draftsmanship allowed him to push the medium to new limits. Another...
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Hands-on pastel
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...common with Maria Cosway? What links Mike Glover with Maurice Quentin de la Tour? The answer is sticks of powdered pigments, bound...in 18th-century Europe when artists such as de la Tour, Cosway, and Liotard used the medium to create velvety...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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A WRONG CHARLIE.. 'Portrait is Bonnie Prince's brother'.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...a cardinal. But the current bosses insist the work is of Charlie. They maintain it was painted in 1748 by Maurice Quentin de la Tour - two years after the Jacobites' bloody defeat at Culloden. Dr Thomson, who oversaw the purchase of the painting...
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Art Reviews: Blurred at the edges
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...year-old (after Antonio David); the officious young leader in his sharp suit and tartan tie (after Maurice-Quentin de la Tour) and finally, sheepishly disguised as Betty Burke (after J Williams). It takes us into the heart of the...
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