(1966) Vincent Crochon Filmography as Actor: Elizabeth 1998 Director: Shekhar Kapur Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush Born November 23 1966 Paris (France) Father Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932-2007) Occupation Actor Film director Producer Awards César Title Chevalier de l’ordre national du…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di cavaliere con orologio (Portrait of a Knight with a Clock) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 122 x 101 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The unknown subject of this portrait has been identified, inconclusively, as either Gianello della Torre,…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, third episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 83.5 x 142.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is the story of…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, second episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 82.5 x 138.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is the story…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, first episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 82.3 x 139 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is…
(1931–1995) Sir Robert Graham Stephens Filmography as Actor: Romeo and Juliet 1968 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990 Director: Brian De Palma Starring: Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith Born July…
(1923–2019) Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli, KBE, Grande Ufficiale OMRI Member of the Italian Senate (1994–2001) Filmography as Director: The Taming of the Shrew 1967 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton Romeo and Juliet 1968 Director: Franco…
(1571–1610) Michelangelo Merisi The artist’s works: Ragazzo che monda un frutto 1592–1593 Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Firenze Ragazzo che monda un frutto c.1592–1593 Hampton Court Palace, London Ragazzo che monda un frutto c.1592–1593 Private collection Ragazzo morso da un ramarro c.1594–1595 National…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Il sogno del cavaliere (Vision of a Knight) c.1504 Oil on poplar, 17.1 x 17.3 cm National Gallery, London This painting was inspired by a passage in the Punica, an epic poem by Silius Italicus (AD 25–101) recounting the…
(c.1504–1536) 2nd Viscount Rochford (1533–1536) Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1534-1536) George Boleyn in Film: Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 Director: Charles Jarrott Starring: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold The Other Boleyn Girl 2008 Director: Justin Chadwick Starring:…