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YOU CAN CALL ME PAL; Paul Simon is 'homeward bound' to the land he loves.(Features)
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Byline: LAURA JACKSON
IT has been 10 years since the legendary American singer-songwriter Paul Simon has been home, truly home. Ever since he dubbed the UK his spiritual home, the star freely admits he's still crazy about Britain after all these years.
And last night as he was due to take the stage at Edinburgh Castle Esplanade to perform live before a capacity crowd, he was assured of a rapturous welcome.
The star - who is 60 in November - fell in love with the UK during the early Sixties when he immersed himself in the thriving folk scene and ...
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ARCHITECTURE: Holy smoke
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...of the fantastic buildings of Guarino Guarini (1624-83), priest, philosopher...meant that the restoration of Guarini's reputation even in scholarly...turn to H A Meek's masterly Guarino Guarini and His Architecture (Yale University...
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Shroud obscures tragedy of Turin fire
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...towards the heavens. Yesterday, Guarino Guarini's masterpiece - ironically about...my grandchildren will never see Guarini's cupola," Lorenzo Mondo wrote...Baroque architecture in Europe. Guarini was arguably the most talented...
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"In Supreme Dignitatis...": Per la storia dell'Universita di Ferrara, 1391-1991.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Leonello d'Este (with the help of Guarino Guarini) revived it in 1442. From that...works, concluding that the young Guarini was a competent humanist, but...equal of his father, the famous Guarino Guarini. Cesare Vasoli offers a short...
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Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...the central object of the book: Guarini's Shroud Chapel and its meaning...built by the Theatine architect Guarino Guarini. The author shows how this extraordinary...structure of the equilateral triangle, Guarini has created a "high cupola with...
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A question of style: the Victoria & Albert Museum's magnificent exploration of the baroque makes up in visual flair what it lacks in scholarly depth.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...Juvarra, who is scarcely mentioned, and Guarino Guarini, who does not appear at all. Guarini's Palazzo Carignano is mentioned once...the Kings of Sardinia.' Wittkower even put Guarini's dome of S. Lorenzo in Turin on the cover...
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Keeping the faith
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal
; ...earthly rulers of Savoy. A priest, Guarino Guarini, was chosen to design the chapel...mathematics. Born in Modena, Guarini had spent many years teaching mathematics...Paris, are now lost. For Turin, Guarini produced a design of exquisite...
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Lighting up in Turin; Travel: In the run-up to Christmas, the city is a hive of artistic activity - and a great place to shop, eat and drink.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...impress visitors, they employed architects such as Guarino Guarini and Filippo Juvarra to give a regal edge to what, up...explains why their faAades take so well to illumination: Guarini's Palazzo Carignano (built in 1679, and later the...
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Margaret L. King and Diana Robin, trans. Isotta Nogarola: Complete Writings. Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Italica
; ...praised by the eminent humanist scholar and teacher Guarino Guarini and eulogized in a celebratory poem by Giovanni Maria...a humanist tutor, Martino Rizzoni--a student of Guarini whose services were engaged, as the editors note...
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Fire Hits Turin Cathedral in Italy
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...blaze started at 23:45 p.m. local time Friday (2145 GMT) in the wooden dome of the 17th century chapel built by Guarino Guarini. More than 200 firefighters took more than four hours to put the fire under control, The cause of the blaze was...
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Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...prominent literary women. To Anthony Grafton's and Lisa Jardin's exposition of the letters of Isotta Nogarola with Guarino Guarini, and Cassandra Fedele with Angelo Poliziano (From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and Liberal Arts in Fifteenth...
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