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Visual Arts: Death becomes Van Dyck Our images of Stuart England are overwhelmingly those of Anthony Van Dyck. But is there more to his work? By Tom Lubbock But, Tom Lubbock argues, excellence doesn't surprise us, so such artwork crucially fails - with one honourable exception...
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The woman is perfected.
Her dead
Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusion of a Greek necessity
Flows in the scrolls of her toga...
This is how Sylvia Plath put it, hard and clear, in her last poem,
Edge. But corpse-portraiture goes a long way back, and Sir Anthony
van Dyck put it differently. When Lady Venetia Digby died in 1633,
her husband, Sir Kenelm, sent for the artist. He arrived two days
post-mortem. What sort of "sitting" he had isn't clear. He knew the
face, though. He'd done her before.
The image Van Dyck painted is not exactly death-like. Its point
is to leave a doubt, ...
 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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The meteoric Finn.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...FINN McCool or Fionn Mac Cumhail has long been celebrated...to cross to Ireland. Finn disguisedhimself as a...his wife told him that Finn was awaybefore showing...worried at how big Finn would be. Fingal ripped...most popular story of Finns death is that he sleeps...
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Walk on the Tall side
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...throughout Scottish history - for example, Benandonner, who, according to legend, fought Irish giant, Finn MacCool (Finn mac Cumhail). "Apparently, we used to have celebrations in Scotland that were similar to the Catalonian ones," explains...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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PLAYER OF THE WEEK; Darragh O'Se (Kerry).(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: BERNARD FLYNN FOR the second game in a row, I can't look beyond the Gaelthacht's 'Finn Mac Cumhail'. Seamus Moynihan and Kieran Donaghy pushed O'Se close, but he faced the biggest test - marking Cork's most influential...
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HARNESS TRIALS
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...B Negus. Qualifying pace, 2400m: Straven (3g Caprock-Biddy B B) K Barron 1, McKinlay 2, Laurral Mark 3, Finn Mac Cumhail 4. Five ran. Four qualifiers. 3/4l, 61/2l, 1/2l. Times: 3:09.2, 3:09.3, 3:10.5, 3:10...
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Medieval Irish Language and Literature: An Orientation for Arthurians
Magazine article from: Arthuriana
; ...finally, 4) the Fenian cycle, shifting in mode from epic toward romance and concerned with the adventures of Finn mac Cumhail and his band of Fenian warriors, who defended Ireland from both supernatural and foreign threats. These tales were...
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McAnulty buys top lot
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...by Clevedon trainer Gareth Dixon. Named Davy Maguire, he is also a half-brother to good West Australian winner Finn Mac Cumhail (1:56.5) and two other minor winners. He is from Soky's Sunday, a lightly-raced Soky's Atom sister to...
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Shanghaied in Coleraine; OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Newspaper article from: Solares Hill
; The legendary Irish giant Fionn Mac Cumhail, today known as Finn McCool, is reputed to have come to blows with the...has it that the Giant's Causeway was another of Finn Mc Cool's great exploits -- stepping stones across...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Culture Club: Finn McCool to large it at Lyric.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; ...to the detail of Fionn mac Cumhail's subterfuge when besting...there's much more to the Finn legend in the mythological...Zoe Seaton, revisits the Finn McCoul legend. Boyd re...star. In Paul's book Finn, abandoned by his mum...
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