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...glory. Titian is an obvious example: his dark, sketchy late work would be influential for centuries. Van Gogh is another: The Starry Night was produced by a man who would take his own life the following year. Pierre-Auguste Renoir went out in a blaze of kitsch. At least, that's the received opinion about the work of his final decades: all those pillowy nudes, sunning their abundant selves in dappled glades; all those peachy girls, strumming guitars and idling in bourgeois parlors; all that pink. In the long twilight of his career, the old man found...
...woman who is a goddess - or at least harks back to one - that's a different matter. It would be Renoir's aim to reconfigure the female nude in a way that would convey the spirit of the classical world without classical trappings. Set in "timeless" outdoor settings, these women by their weight and scale and serenity alone - along with their often recognizably classical poses - would point back to antiquity...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has dedicated his life to the promotion of equality. Now a new study of his genetic makeup has helped scientists understand how different human beings are - at least genetically...
...used to feel like I was doing something at least marginally constructive during my Gmail breaks from Facebook. In fact, I still remember that renewed sense of control and eagerness I felt the moment I got my Gmail account 14 months ago—that new school supply high (what, this doesn’t happen...
...finished a disappointing fifth, failing to make amends for her infamous gaffe at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy - where she stumbled at the end of a race she was on the verge of winning because she hotdogged it on the last jump, taking silver instead of gold - at least she had no broken bones. "We were lucky that nobody was carted off in a sled," she said...