Sentences with phrase «gilded throne»

While opulent pug Candy Spelling eats platinum nuggets out of a diamond - embedded bowl while sitting on a gilded throne in the rose garden of her $ 35 million penthouse, her daughter Tori Spelling is checking eBay for discounted, gently used at - home vasectomy kits, because she and her husband Dean McDermott are as broke as her tit job.

The installation's wall text reveals another reference to a monument of divine authority, the Vatican's gilded Throne of St. Peter (c. 1647 — 1653) by Bernini.

From the Rajasthan palace elephants guarding the lotus courtyard to the gilded throne from a Burmese temple presiding over the dining pavilion, the stunning interiors are a treasure trove of skillfully curated antiques, curios and paintings that reveal the owners» passion for Asian culture and contemporary art.

«They are perturbed that I wasted their resources,» she laments from her gilded throne, before revealing that she created a cocoon to further evolve her people and get her revenge on the Guardians.

But the cynic in all of us may still look at all those super-rich sharks, sitting atop their gilded thrones telling struggling entrepreneurs to take risks, as a bit, well, callous.

Not exact matches

«For the most part, popes had been viewed as old Italian guys in white sitting on some gilded baroque throne in Rome,» says David Gibson, who has authored multiple books on the papacy.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art purchased Doug Aitken's 2008 video projection Migration, and added a number of objects to its sculpture and decorative arts collection, including a Roman A.D. 2nd century marble - and - gilt figure of St. Peter, seated on a marble throne (attributed to the 16th - century Italian Bastiano Torigiani) and a gilt wood statue of St. Benedict (attributed to 18th - century Spanish artist Jose Montes de Oca).