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...The works of art that changed everything for me were the renaissance sculptures I saw when I first visited Florence in my early teens....
...Only the virtuoso opening is the same: the larger than life marble “David”, all compressed energy, stands with the curl-framed head of Goliath at his feet....
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...Armed with quick changes, killer lines, fizzing choreography (Jenny Arnold), oodles of charm and even more cheek, a brilliant five-strong cast (Natasha Hodgson, David Cumming, Zoë Roberts, Jak Malone and...
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...“The day I got to Florence, I bought this Italian leather coat with a zip at the front and then a hat, and I thought, ‘oh my god, I look so cool’,” she says....
...Collecting citrus varieties goes back to the 16th century, when Cosimo I de’ Medici came to power in Florence in 1537....
...It was by David Lynch, although he’s since disavowed it. There was one in the early aughts, but these they didn’t really hit....
...“I know David well, yeah,” he says. “I’ve had a lot of great conversations with David.”...
...Both couples are accompanied by their baby daughters, Florence and Ophelia, born just 10 weeks apart. There are almost as many dogs as people....
...As David Dabydeen’s seminal book Hogarth’s Blacks (1987) made clear, such children were often owned as status symbols akin to pets....
...George and the Davids never leave home; the show’s richness is that Florence’s permanent pieces are joined, in the Strozzi’s superbly choreographed presentation, by loans of unprecedented scope and quality...
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