ENTOURAGE D'HANS ROTTENHAMMER (MUNICH 1564/5-1625 AUGSBOURG)

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  • Exquisite craftsmanship and ‘perfectly beautiful objects’

    Highlights from a New York auction of exceptional pieces by the top Parisian ateliers of the 19th century

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  • One of the most important European royal portraits to come to auction for a generation

    Offered on 6 December in London, Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of Princess Mary, Daughter of King Charles I of England

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  • Beyond the Brotherhood: female artists of the Victorian era

    Specialist Sarah Reynolds on the women whose work made waves in Victorian Britain, from Emma Sandys to Laura, Lady Alma-Tadema

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  • Strike a pose — The changing face of full-length portraits

    Andrew Graham-Dixon on how full-length portraits have been used in history to boost the status of nobles, kings and statesmen

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  • 5 minutes with... The ‘Tipo B’ side chair by Carlo Mollino

    Symbolism and the esoteric — specialist Simon Andrews reveals the curious obsessions of the 20th-century Italian designer

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  • ‘As good as it gets’ — The Pink Legacy diamond

    Why this 18.96-carat Fancy Vivid Pink diamond — offered in November at Christie’s in Geneva — is set to make history