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...What scope did that sentiment leave for the painters and sculptors — including del Sarto and Vasari himself — who came immediately after Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael?...
...Despite his fascination with the secular, magical and pagan, Piero nevertheless earnt much of his living making Christian paintings....
...Yet the classicism remains; his cherubs are from a pagan era; his figures enjoy Hellenistic substance....
...Noting pagan celebrations of the returning light, the Mishnah relates the ancient story of Adam’s first winter....
...Not since Leonardo (whose own studies were a departure point for Saville) and Rembrandt has an artist got the peculiar body language of very small children exactly right....
...Such intimate, pagan intensity makes a fascinating contrast to the monumental spirituality of Caravaggio’s later religious works....
...Fragile pieces such as Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, packed with sketches, diagrams, scribbled observations, are on permanent display for the first time....
...There is something pagan here. If God forbade graven images, should that not apply, to a greater or lesser extent, to all pictorial replications?...
...Although Giambologna produced a number of religious works, from 1577 onwards, the show concentrates on his vast production of “pagan” sculpture, opening with an elegant bronze Bacchus....
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