capriccio
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capriccio (It.: ‘caprice’). Term that can be applied to any fantasy subject, but is most commonly used of a type of townscape popular in the 18th century in which real buildings are combined with imaginary ones or are shown with their locations rearranged.
Canaletto and
Guardi often painted pictures of this type, and there is a painting by
William Marlow in Tate Britain, London, showing St Paul's Cathedral overlooking a Venetian canal.
Goya's Los Caprichos are etchings of fantastic subjects of a completely different kind.
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A dispatch from the frontlines of the Dame Rebecca renaissance. Dennis Drabelle
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/12/2003; 700+ words
; ...in Book World on May 11), which West had begun in the 1960s only to abandon...Schweizer also founded the International Rebecca West Society, which recently held its...all this posthumous attention to Dame Rebecca? She cut a glittering figure...
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Rebecca West.
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/8/1988; ; 700+ words
; Rebecca West, by Victoria Glendinning (Knopf, 320...IRONIES Jeffrey Meyers IN AUGUST 1977 Dame Rebecca West invited me to tea in her magnificent...greeted by a loud "Oh, damn!" Dame Rebecca had forgotten our appointment. Ten minutes...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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MY GOLDEN GIRL; EXCLUSIVE Beijing 2008 Rebecca's man 'bursting with pride' 'I'm taking her on cruise to celebrate' She leads 9-medal haul in record day.(News)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 8/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...also a swimmer, met Rebecca, of Mansfield, Notts...had the money to take Rebecca on holiday when she returns...home in Annan, south-west Scotland. But he is now planning to whisk Rebecca away on a cruise of the...listening to this, make her Dame Rebecca Adlington...
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DROPPING BOMBS INTO TANGLED HISTORY.(Rebecca West, 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Though Yugoslavia')
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...good occasion to go back and read Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...available in Penguin paperback. Dame Rebecca attained the age of ninety-one...approach to marriage would work in the West. It depends upon too many tacit...
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Rebecca West: A Woman Of Independent Ways
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/4/1987; ; 700+ words
; REBECCA WEST This Is What Matters By Victoria Glendinning...and prompts readers to note your name. Dame Rebecca West had wit inexhaustible and deployed it...Sackville-West, Elizabeth Bowen. She knew Rebecca West, and the new book evinces a rapport...
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Rebecca West and the complexity of simplicity
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/22/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...performer and critic." To Rebecca West, the sentence was everything...go for the jugular." West began a review of Strindberg...What a lead! Some of West's best work was done...lessons by reading what Dame Rebecca left behind.
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Relentless Intellect: A Profile of Rebecca West.
Magazine article from: World and I; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Bernard Shaw noted that "Rebecca can handle a pen as brilliantly...pseudonym [i.e., Rebecca West, from a character in...collected in The Young Rebecca, edited by Jane Marcus...written. As a reader, Dame Rebecca did not disdain...
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Schweizer, Bernard, ED.: Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...that the heterogeneity and volume of West's output are going to present problems...her in the canon: which version of West do we foreground? Best known of...in her own time--latterly as "Dame Rebecca West," which indicates some of the esteem...
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DAME WEST'S `MEXICO' IS STILL RICH
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/3/2003; ; 700+ words
; Dame Rebecca West (1892-1983) lived nearly as long as...and one of the most prolific. Since West's death, scholars have continued to...It's a good thing that new writings of Rebecca West continue to appear; we still need...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Toby's second act; The son of Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Robert Stephens, Toby Stephens was born to act - and to drink. He tells Rebecca Fowler how he nearly squandered his talent, but then made a spectacular recovery with a happy marriage and a role as a Bond baddie.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 11/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; Byline: REBECCA FOWLER In 1996, Toby...in Westbourne Grove, West London. It rattled with...his mother, the actress Dame Maggie Smith, didn...leaving his co-star Dame Diana Rigg on stage wondering...womanising had forced Dame Maggie to demand a divorce...
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Dame Rebecca West
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dame Rebecca West 1892-1983, English novelist and critic, b. Ireland as Cicily Isabel Fairfield. West began her career as a journalist for feminist...A stern and uncompromising moralist, West was one of the finest writers of prose...
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West, Dame Rebecca
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
West, Dame Rebecca, the adopted name of Cecily Isabel Fairfield...been collected and reprinted as The Young Rebecca (1982, ed. Jane Marcus); this includes...affair and the birth of a son, Anthony West. Her first novel, The Return of the...
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Cicely Fairchild
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cicely Fairchild see West, Dame Rebecca .
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Evans, Dame Edith Mary
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Evans, Dame Edith Mary (1888–1976), distinguished English actress...repeat successfully in later years. She was seen in her only Ibsen role, Rebecca West in Rosmersholm , in 1926, and a year later she returned to Restoration...
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Duse, Eleonora
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...xE9;odora, and Camille in the younger Dumas's La Dame aux camélias , and was outstanding in Ibsen—particularly as Hedda Gabler, and as Rebecca West in Rosmersholm in the production Gordon Craig designed...
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