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Anniversaries
; ...James Edward Oglethorpe, colonist and founder of Georgia, 1696; Jean-Etienne Liotard, painter, 1702; John Crome ("Old Crome"), landscape painter, 1768; Franz Abt, composer and conductor, 1819; Jean-Henri Fabre, naturalist, 1823; Charles Stuart Calverley, poet...Deaths: Aulus Vitellius, Roman emperor, beheaded ...
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Letter: Euro-sceptics economical with the reality
; ...Executive and was privileged to meet many brave Frenchmen and, indeed, married one of the most courageous: Commandant Jean-Francois Clouet des Pesruches, who died for his country having earned the highest accolade from General de Gaulle, La Croix de la...
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Beauty in life after DEATH; Richard Edmonds delves into the lost art of painting miniatures.
; ...just gone before'. But first, a few words about the beginnings of the miniature. In the 16th Century, the French artist Jean Clouet, was possibly the first artist to paint in roundels, detaching the tiny picture from the normal religious motif and...
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A rare glimpse of Renaissance France
; ...among the most impressive designs in the show is a drawing by Jean Cousin the Elder of a gold centerpiece given to Henri II at...Harvard's Houghton Library, and both attributed to Francois Clouet. They are also both exquisite. Mary, in white mourning, is somber...
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A portrait of Europe at its most magnificent
; ...gives us children to delight over - look especially at the tiny, brilliantly touching portrait of Madeleine de France by Jean Clouet, overshadowed by its broken-pedimented frame - and preposterous individuals to laugh at: don't miss the wonderfully...
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Road Racing
; ...Jill Storey 3:19:59.2, 49. Dick L'Heureux 3:20:39.1, 50. Peter Lodge 3:20:42.2 51. Daniel Doherty 3:20:56.1, 52, Jean-Marie Clouet 3:21:20.2, 53. Vicki Bryant 3:21:26.6, 54. Doug McCalmont 3:21:20.2, 55. Erik Seastead 3:22:10.1, 56. Roger Marquis...
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