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  'King of Fashion' by Paul Poiret

  Fashion designer Paul Poiret describes his debut as a couturier in this extract from his 1931 autobiography
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  Ocean liner fashion: a socialite's guide

  Parisian couturiers of the day, and most likely wore her gowns by Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet and Paul…
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  100 years of fashion photography

  elegance, the American photographer Edward Steichen photographed models wearing dresses by the designer Paul…
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  The Raphael Cartoons: The Conversion of the Proconsul

  Paul preaches to a Roman proconsul (regional governor) and converts him to Christianity by performing…
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  The Raphael Cartoons: The Sacrifice at Lystra

  The apostles Paul and Barnabas continue their mission in the city of Lystra (now Hatunsaray in modern…
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  The Raphael Cartoons: Paul Preaching at Athens

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  The story of the Raphael Cartoons

  Of the six Cartoons depicting the life of Saint Paul, only three have survived: The Conversion of the…
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  Collecting Europe - artist commissions

  Gallery, Room 111 Thibaut de Ruyter has taken the track 'A Song for Europe' by Roxy Music as his starting point…
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  Alfred Stieglitz – pioneer of modern photography

  drawings of the American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986) and the work of American photographer Paul…
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  Lucian Freud and etching

  To make an etching, the artist uses a sharp pointed tool (an etching needle) to draw into a layer of…
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  Grinling Gibbons – an introduction

  known that Gibbons lived in bustling and creative London neighbourhoods, first at Ludgate Hill near St Pauls…
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  Brooches for bridesmaids

  One point of etiquette, according to Vogue, was that 19th century American women would give gifts to…
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  Ashley Havinden and the 'Britain Can Make It' poster

  appears in full in the book Britain Can Make It: The 1946 Exhibition of Modern Design, published by Paul…
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  The wonderful world of Whistler

  Expelled from the West Point military academy in 1854, he quit the US for Paris in 1855 in search of…
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  'Entartete Kunst': The Nazis' inventory of 'degenerate art'

  In 1928, Paul Schultz-Naumburg, an architect and Nazi activist, published his book Kunst und Rasse (Art…
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  An introduction to the Aesthetic Movement

  to furnish Red House, believing "the growth of decorative art in this country... has now reached a point…
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  The Teutonic Knights Bible

  The third volume, now in Oxford, must have been in Germany at some point in the 19th century where it…
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  Lucienne Day – an introduction

  calyx refers to the outer parts of a flower), but the plant motifs are here stylised almost to the point…
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  James 'Athenian' Stuart

  Buildings and follies provided focal points within the design, and views to and from them were carefully…
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  An A–Z of metalwork

  Paul de Lamerie is regarded as the Rembrandt of British silversmiths and his stunning silverwares fetch…