The outlandish, deeply unusual former assistant at Vogue who became mentor to a generation of fashion designers, editors and photographers, Isabella Blow is the subject of a new exhibition set amid the Neo-Classical splendor of London's Somerset House.
The Hotel des Grandes Hommes, at 17, place du Pantheon, across from the neo-Classical splendor of the Pantheon and near the Sorbonne, has 32 simply decorated rooms, many with timbered ceilings.
You can gaze at its constellation-filled ceiling, or admire those sky-high Corinthian columns, but there is one way to appreciate the neo-Classical splendor of Grand Central Terminal that does not require a craned neck: stare at the floor.
A $22 million renovation of the Hawaii Theater (1130 Bethel Street; 808-528-0506) has restored most of the building's neo-Classical-style splendor.
He knew generally what he wanted: brownstone, spare ornamentation, understated splendor, classical proportions, harmonious lines, a front courtyard.
In St . Petersburg a city of classical and neoclassical splendor, the Kirov Ballet is to get a starkly modern glass and marble new home designed by Dominique Perrault of France.
During the Renaissance "the flash and splendor of classical learning" became a genteel accomplishment, and older models of elegance and restraint returned to favor.
His 1961 drama "The Damned" has the jangling disjunction of a French New Wave film and, in particular, the overlay of classical ruins and natural splendor that would mark Godard's "Contempt," from 1963.
The adagio and coda of the great Prologue suite of dances for the fairy godmothers should be our first vision of the full splendor of classical ballet at its most radiant and tremendous, but here the producers have tampered, making crucial details anticlimactic, closed where they should be open.
With layers of grime stripped away, the true, tawny splendor of elegant neo-Classical cornices, pediments and porticoes has re-emerged.
His 2005 series "Last Description of the Old Romantic," features floral still lifes, copied from classical paintings, which he stained to dim their splendor as a reflection on the notion of beauty.
