Word: connoisseurs
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...apparent harmony for decades, there is no known painting of her. But whatever their names, everything about them is observed with delighted accuracy--the way they stand and move, how they gesture, their makeup and coiffure and jewelry, and above all what they wear. Goya was an enraptured connoisseur of clothes and knew exactly what political and social meanings costume in Spain could have...
...Mediterranean. And high on the brick wall of the apartment building to the left, a pink patch: a ray of sun breaking through winter's grisaille. Surely Koch had been thinking of the "little patch of yellow wall" in Vermeer's View of Delft, the last thing Proust's connoisseur Bergotte notices before he is felled by a heart attack. Memory and desire: Koch's great understated themes...
...Herrell’s, Nate Tryon proposes a “Crimson Tide” flavor with a hint of cinnamon. His co-worker Sarah Hecht promotes a “Crimson Candy Swirl” featuring mysterious red candies. Sam Cave, Toscanini’s resident ice cream connoisseur, offers up “Crimson Curse,” a delectable blend of blueberries and raspberries in vanilla ice cream...
...turning them more into object d'art than ordinary books. Tiny print-run, hand-made mini-comics have explored this holistic aesthetic extensively, but there have been few such works produced on a "mass" scale. They offer a new kind of reading experience for even the most jaded comix connoisseur...
...reads in some eclectic discipline for at least an hour every day, he says. He was a professor of English, with a deep affinity for the poet Sir Philip Sydney, and after Harvard, he plans to work on a project cataloguing art, another area in which he is a connoisseur. He is famous for his handwritten thank-you notes. And his speeches are utterly charming, as he every year dubs himself an honorary member of “your classy class” at the Commencement Baccalaureate...