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...children to rightfully rule over many lands. Octavian, the grandnephew of Caesar, who was unrightfully named heir instead of my son, convinced the Senate to declare war against Egypt. During mid battle, I took flight to return home with my ships, followed by my lover Antony, whose weak-minded soldiers deserted him for Octavian. After Antony took his own life, distraught...

...centred on youth, beauty, sexuality and motherhood. Pink may seem gentle, sweet and pretty, but these appealing qualities all too readily flip over into passivity, frivolity and artificiality. For me, as an art historian specialising in eighteenth-century French art, the debate around pink is of interest because no period in the history of art is more associated with the...