Word: isabella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Complementing Lithgow's performance is that of Madeline Adams as his queen. Miss Adam's sorrowful Isabella speaks her lines, among the best in the play, with control and polish. She and Janet Leslie, Edward's niece, make wonderfully feminine contrast with the angry lords who battle Edward...
...addition to these, the paintings of two of the lesser known artists on display are particularly exciting and drew a great deal of attention: Andre Masson's "Leonardo da Vinci and Isabella d'Este" (1942) and Richard Oelze's "Expectation...
...storm around her "love child" by Director Roberto Rossellini has died down, and the boy, Robertino, has grown into a strikingly handsome 13-year-old. In Rome to film The Lady's Vengeance, she spent a lot of time with him and her eleven-year-old twin daughters, Isabella and Ingrid. As a result of a long and angry custody fight, the children live with neither parent during the school year, instead have an apartment in Rome presided over by a governess. Even so, the thrice-married Swedish actress thinks things have worked out all right. "They...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner built a mansion, transformed it into a Venetian palace and endowed it as a museum. The museum still stands on Boston's Fenway; as her will stipulated, every object remains precisely where Mrs. Gardner placed it 60 years...
Play with Figures. Seeing history as a kind of gigantic morality play, Prescott decorated it with figures that are plainly preposterous. His Queen Isabella, for instance, is straight out of the 19th century romantic novel-blue-eyed, fair-haired, and possessed of a piety that "shone forth from the very depths of her soul with a heavenly radiance which illuminated her whole character." It was her remarkable innocence, says Prescott, and her implicit trust in her "ghostly advisers" that caused her to fall under the influence of the villainous Torquemada, who established the Spanish Inquisition...