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“... fill the pages of Plutarch’s biographical account, in which he pairs Demetrius with Mark Antony as examples of men whose lives, brilliantly begun, ended in disgrace. But if Demetrius lived for the show, he died in silence. Shortly after he was captured, he bequeathed his empire to his son and cut off his family and friends.* Not only did he abdicate ...”

“... canister. Hebridean air is trapped. The maquette that will contain it is made from polystyrene, wood, plaster. A bronze is cast and polished. A smooth helmet-shape with a lovely patina. There are apertures through which the radiant air can be examined. The bronze becomes a visor, a device that is both ancient and early contemporary. View according to ...”

“... The old man begins to sing a popular song, Darley recalls the Cavafy poem about the god abandoning Antony, and thinks, ‘Each man goes out to his own music’ – an elegant untruth but a fine epitaph. There is the death of love itself when Mountolive finally meets up again with his once beautiful Egyptian mistress, Nessim’s mother. Here we see the Gothic ...”

“... In Antony,​ the southern suburb of Paris where Louise Bourgeois spent her childhood, the river water had special properties. The Bièvre, which ran past the Bourgeois home, was thick with tannin, an important ingredient for the family’s tapestry restoration business: wool washed in this water is more receptive to dyeing agents – colours set fast and don’t fade ...”

“... This involves making a solid model, usually of wax or wax-finished but sometimes of stone or wood, which is transformed by means of a dialogue of positive and negative images (after each of which modifications can be made and errors corrected) into a hollow wax model with walls just 3 mm or so thick; the wax is melted and drained and replaced with molten ...”

“... Notebook, is mainly a series of wonderful anachronistic jokes, as when he recalls the character in Antony and Cleopatra (Scarus), who says just before the battle for Alexandria that he has ‘yet room for six scotches more’. The OED gives ‘incision, cut, score or gash’ as the first meaning for ‘scotch’, and cites this passage. Powell also notes that ...”

“... of the modelling and surely cannot be original (moreover, I suspect that, in addition to wax and wood, textile was employed). The gold may explain the survival: it transformed a painter’s model into a work of miniature sculpture attractive to the collector. After his return to Florence in 1510 Sansovino was commissioned to carve a half life-size marble ...”

“... particularly well. The first is related by Cavendish himself and by four men who sailed with him, Antony Knivet, a young gentleman volunteer; John Davis, the great navigator; J. Jane, a friend of Davis’s; and Thomas Lodge the poet. Thomas Cavendish was a man of considerable estate but varying fortunes, and like many of his contemporaries he took to the sea ...”

“... on their black body-stockings. He can remark that Piero drew well from life, that he painted St Antony wearing spectacles and reading an excellently represented parchment book, that he displayed to perfection the art of colouring in oils. Vasari was clearly aware that biographical information, gossip indeed, was seductive; as to technique, it was enough to ...”

“... he scripted scenes in which Hymen personally ratifies the ending of a comedy, or Hercules abandons Antony, or Jupiter descends on an eagle. The first published review of his work, in Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit (1592), depicts Shakespeare as Aesop’s vain corvid posing as a peacock, calling him an ‘upstart crow, beautified with our feathers’. Using the ...”

“... and the Ninth Symphony, can probably only be equalled by Shakespeare’s 1606 (Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra). He carried notebooks with him on his walks in Vienna and the countryside, stopping in the middle of a city street to record an idea. Bonds tells us that these notebooks contain sketches for as many as fifty symphonies.One woman said that ...”

“... he was cautious to the last – have the sense of ‘being able to do what angels can’. James Wood writes: I have good reason to remember Frank Kermode’s collection of essays The Art of Telling, because it was the first book I ever stole. Between the ages of 16 and 18 I lifted more than a few books from shops. Resources were very slight, and the hunger ...”

“... have also played an important role, especially those allied with the Atlas Network, created by Antony Fisher, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher. Out of the five hundred affiliated organisations the Atlas Network claims to have around the world, 120 are in Latin America. (For comparison, South Asia and East Asia have only 21 each.) In her 2021 book ...”

“... Clare, distracted by agricultural enclosures, was lodged. But it was the launcher site in Oxleas Wood, where locals had fought hard (and successfully) against motorway incursions, that I wanted to inspect. Leaning on his stick, Steve was waiting at North Greenwich station, which is not in North Greenwich, but an adjunct to the O2 Arena, a fancy serving hatch ...”

“... the presidential election, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, visited both Antony Blinken, Biden’s secretary of state, in Washington and Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss Israel’s Lebanon operations. On 15 November, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berry, confirmed that officials in Beirut were studying a purported ...”