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...includes 20 g of caviar, "Maviar" tarama (a creamy spread made with the eggs of smoked cod), smoked salmon with artichokes and a fruit dessert. That will set you back j80 per person, but it comes with a tiny mother-of-pearl caviar spoon. The only disadvantage to al fresco eating?other than possible bad weather in autumn?is uninvited guests. Near the Eiffel Tower with my daughter recently, a well-spoken but disheveled man approached our picnic and asked if we couldn't spare "a piece of bread, some salami and that piece of cheese over there." We made...
...caviar, "Maviar" tarama (a creamy spread made with the eggs of smoked cod), smoked salmon with artichokes and a fruit dessert. That will set you back €80 per person, but it comes with a tiny mother-of-pearl caviar spoon. The only disadvantage to al fresco eating - other than possible bad weather in autumn - is uninvited guests. Near the Eiffel Tower with my daughter recently, a well-spoken but disheveled man approached our picnic and asked if we couldn't spare "a piece of bread, some salami and that piece of cheese over there." We made up a plate...
Most Italians would hardly be fazed by a fresco, but unearthing antiquity in a major shopping center is quite another story. Although locals initially lamented the loss of their beloved independent bookstore, the discovery of the frescoes has given this MaxMara location a helpful dose of historical credibility. With a characteristically European casual attitude toward art history, cashiers and customers mingle freely with those working on the restoration project. --Melia Marden
...People in the Harvard community remember these paintings as they looked new but [students] don’t.” Instead of thinking of paintings that are part of the present era as infallible, aging works of modern art should be considered in the same light as the fresco cycles of the aged Italian Renaissance that inspired Rothko to carry out his large commissions...
...before being swallowed up by the fire-and-brimstone fervor of the Dominican monk Savonarola. Along with several of Botticelli's delicate Madonnas, the show's highlights include a colored-ink Map of the Inferno illustration for Dante's The Divine Comedy, and St. Augustine in his cell, a fresco for Florence's Ognissanti church later transposed to canvas. It will go to Florence's Palazzo Strozzi (March 10-July 11) after the Paris run. The scion of a wealthy Montpellier family, the ebullient young Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille shared his ateliers and his allowance with...