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Property: HOT SPOT: Yeovil, Somerset The football team has been promoted - and the property prices are on their way up too, says ROBERT LIEBMAN
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Never mind the bronze age and Roman artefacts in the local history
museum or the 14th century church. The buzz in Yeovil today centres
around the town's football club, which has clawed its way up from the
Conference League to Nationwide League Division III. This achievement
has taken the club a mere 108 years, and for much of that time the
club faced a literally uphill struggle; Yeovil Town's old Huish
ground was renowned for its sloping pitch.
"The team's nickname is the Glovers, because historically Yeovil
was known for its glove-making industry," explains Zoe Lucas of
Connells. "It is ...
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Padua's Splendid Array of Bronze
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...humanist scholar.Just as Bellano had completed Donatello's outstanding commissions, so in turn did his pupil, Andrea Briosco, known as ''il Riccio,'' bring the Roccabellona tomb to its conclusion after Bellano's death. Bellano an
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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A [pounds sterling]150,000 gift that goes to the head; COLLECTING.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...5 million - Sotheby's European sculpture and works of art sale includes a Renaissance terracotta masterpiece, Andrea Briosco's Virgin and Child. But perhaps some of the oddest objects coming up for sale before Christmas are 14 paintings...
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ARTS GUIDE
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...century. The exhibition brings together bronze work by Donatello and such contemporaries as Bartolomeo Bellano, Andrea Briosco and Vittore Camelio. www.padovanet.it/padovacult/donatello-japanTokyo-Hara Museum, tel: (3) 3445...
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 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Beit that! Sale of bronzes copperfastens an Irish gem.(NEWS)
Magazine article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
; ...the Golden Age collectors. The bronze figure of a gladiator by one of the leading sculptors of the Renaissance, Andrea del Briosco, called Riccio (1470-1532), sold for a record EU1,086,336. A contemporary of Michelangelo, Leonardo...
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Works from the meeting point of Gothic and Renaissance
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...the Passion for the Antique: Andrea Riccio and his Time," at...exhibition until Feb. 15.) Andrea Riccio was born in Trent in...Ambrogio di Cristoforo di Briosco, was an itinerant goldsmith...Curly") was the nickname Andrea acquired on account of his...
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