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...have seen St. Petersburg at its best. Its beautiful buildings are bathed in sunlight almost 20 hours per day because of its northern location. I have gazed at Monets and Picassos in the Hermitage museum for hours. I saw the ballets Swan Lake and Giselle in the same week and have daydreamed to renditions of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky by the St. Petersburg Symphony...
...grew tired of the American artist colony that sprang up in the village, so it was a privilege for Breck to be allowed to work in the master's garden. Painted on a summer day, the picture re.ects the essence of Impressionist art - an outdoor scene captured in dazzling sunlight and painted with brush-strokes of bright, vibrant colors. Pastoral landscapes and blooming gardens feature prominently in the exhibit, as do women and children in bucolic settings and restful poses. Sargent's In the Orchard and A Lady and a Child Asleep in a Punt Under a Willow, Robinson...
...archaeologists understand the significance of this Kama Sutra in stone, but Anoop Jain, a temple guide, has his own theory. "People were becoming too holy," he explains as he directs a beam of sunlight with a heart-shaped hand mirror toward a pair of stone lovers engaged in a passionate kiss. "They were going to the forest to meditate, and no one was getting married." So the King, suggests Jain, commissioned the carving of erotic scenes into temple walls for "inspiration." It will never be known if the King's pro-family program proved fruitful. Though mighty warriors, the Chandelas...
Combined with a brilliant lighting design by David Corlette ’96, the set keeps the narrative on the edge of reality, underscoring the story’s destructive progress while capturing the cruelty of sunlight in a deadly Arctic winter...
...watched Stith slip on her weathered biking gloves, lower the tinted visor of her helmet into place and then close the heavy zipper of her black leather jacket, its metal studs gleaming in the sunlight, my highly developed journalist’s eye told me that this was no run-of-the-mill Harvard woman...