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...His cousin sprites, joyous little “Spiritelli”, are bizarre fusions, derived from the pagan putto, adapted as celebratory figures associated with Christian baptism....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...“I went to see Savage Beauty [the 2015 Alexander McQueen retrospective at the V&A] many times. It felt like the opposite of the fashion industry, which was really speeding up....
...porcelain-smooth limbs, it chronicles the legend of the imperial Roman soldiers who converted to Christianity and were punished for it by their own emperor who had himself just made an alliance with the pagan...
...“When Lee was planning the AW07 show ‘In memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1692’, he wanted a pagan-style headpiece,” he explains, “but made in fine jewellery.”...
...By the time he died in 1564, Protestantism had swept through northern Europe; the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V had brought Rome to its knees and the Counter-Reformation was fighting back....
...Pagan Babies (2000) switches between Rwanda and Detroit....
...Of late, the clamour around the rescue of “Diana and Actaeon” for Britain’s National Galleries has emphasised his genius for pagan storytelling....
...above all in the form of statuettes, from the 15th century onwards such pieces were again esteemed as collectors’ items, and were one of the principal ways in which the period paid homage to the genius of pagan...
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...Accompanied by so many other pagan and secular images, its presence brings home forcefully the unique tension – social, spiritual and intellectual – that made Quattrocento Florence such a uniquely creative...
...Yet even this contains elaborate Italianate motifs, and in style is evocative of one of the V&A’s most magnificent secular pieces, the gilded silver nautilus shell table sculpture, the Burghley Nef, made...
...The first great humanist pope, Nicholas V (1447-55), translated ancient Greek texts into Latin....
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