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Book review: The scarlet woman who painted London red Thursday Book: The Smart: the true story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the unfortunate Perreau brothers by Sarah Bakewell (Chatto & Windus, pounds 17.99)
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SARAH BAKEWELL has written a scholarly biography that reads like a
detective novel with a historical setting. She has exhumed from 18th-
century newspapers and scandal- sheets the life story of an
intelligent but amoral Irish adventuress who cost two men their lives
and several others their happiness or fortunes.
Until Bakewell began her investigations, Caroline Rudd (1745-
1797) was a forgotten figure. Now she has become a vivid and
immediate presence - unscrupulous, destructive, but with charm and
intelligence. Parts of her life were sensationally publicised and
others mired in miserable ...
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Fourteen Motets from the Court of Ferdinand II of Hapsburg.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...classic series of editions after 1610 - and not the early continuo motet of Gabriele Fattorini, Lodovico Viadana, or Leone Leoni - represent the real break with the traditions of cinquecento compositional procedure. Against the background of this...
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L'Identita dissimulata. Giudaizzanti iberici nell'Europa cristiana dell'eta moderna
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...rose high enough in wealth and position to intermarry with members of the Tuscan upper class, they did not. Aron di Leone Leoni provides much information about Jews and crypto-Jews in Ancona and Pesaro through a diligent search through local...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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RARE MICHELANGELO WORKS TO BE SELECTED FOR EXHIBIT; ARTIST'S DRAWINGS AND WRITINGS WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT SU AND IN NEW YORK CITY.(CNY)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...thinks big, monumentally," says Radke. While Michelangelo is the centerpiece, the exhibit also will include works by Leone Leoni, Marcello Venusti and Giorgio Ghisi, contemporaries of the artist. The exhibit is organized by Casa Buonarroti in...
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Deborah Houk Schocket. Modes of Seduction: Sexual Power in Balzac and Sand.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Symposium
; ...Baudrillard. Comparing the interdependency of erotic domination and submission in Un prince de la Boh&ne, Leone Leoni, Indiana, and Let Fille aux yeux d'or, Schocket argues that the Balzacian text gives free reign to female sexual...
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Nec spe nec metu. La Gonzaga: Architettura e corte nella Milano di Carlo V.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Romano built and decorated for his brother, Federico II, it nonetheless took Rome as its model. Had Ferrante taken up Leone Leoni on his offer of the casts of antique statuary, then the connection between the residence and Rome would have been even...
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The Decoration of the Royal Basilica of El Escorial.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...noisy world of artists, craftsmen, and bothersome royal officials in the sculpting and bronze casting workshop of Leone and Pompeo Leoni. In chapter two, the author defends Philip II's controversial rejection of El Greco's Martyrdom of St. Maurice...
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Books: Paperbacks
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...century to defeat*. Sergio Leone by Christopher Frayling (Faber, pounds 20, 570pp) Leoni invented the spaghetti western...hated his trademark cigar, Leone insisted that it had to stay...sustains it throughout. Sergio Leone by Christopher Frayling Faber...
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It's a wonderful life... sort of
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...suggested. With Nicolas Cage, Tea Leone, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven...college sweetheart, Annie (Tea Leoni), had kids, become a tire...world. Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni are two of the most enterprising...that they didn't plan?) And Leoni, pretty after a believable...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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The new fall lineup: cast and credits.(Home Front)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...shoes ($738). At Mario di Leone. Name: Donna Baldwin Age...shoes ($403). At Mario Di Leone. Name: Aubrey Brewer Age...shoes ($463). At Mario di Leoni. Name: Cameron Letterman Age...shoes ($535). At Mario di Leone. Name: Tobie Orr Age: No...
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`HOLLYWOOD ENDING' NOT A FUNNY ONE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...Prospects improve when Val's ex-wife (Tea Leoni) persuades her new lover, a studio head...bumps into things. Bickering scenes with Leone are wooden, and it's not clear what...Allen plays a neurotic director and Tea Leoni his ex-wife in ``Holywood Ending...
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