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...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...And Bellini’s crystalline “Dead Christ Tended by Angels” repeats Donatello’s treatment of the subject, here in both bronze and marble....
...It’s a discipline”, a concern that is also touched on in headings throughout the narrative, such as “Surface v depth” and “Real v fake.”...
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...I thought ‘Jesus Christ, Ken, forget Michael Gambon’s potatoes, you’ll do well to keep up here.’” Such is their bond....
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...In 1897, twelve years before reaching the pole, Robert Peary kidnapped an Inuit family, including a young boy named Minik, and brought them to New York as living specimens....
...At his death, his aide Luis Quijada wrote that “the greatest man who has ever lived, or will ever live, just died in Christ’s arms”....
...Was it in his bottega, as Francesco Cogliati suggests, that the young Leonardo sculpted the V&A’s terracotta Virgin?...
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...It’s a glamorous do at the V&A....
...His new V-A-C art centre in Moscow is set to open in 2018 or 2019, housed in a defunct electrical power station....
...These powerful, vividly painted sculptures make the suffering Christ and saints seem almost palpable....
...To anyone familiar with Renaissance paintings of the Deposition of Christ, the mute grace of this moment of tragedy – the raw carnal reality in tension with the mood of transcendent pity – will be instantly...
...He was just 37 years old and had left behind a young family: his wife, Rita, an artist, and their two daughters, Lisa, who was a little over a year old, and her infant sister, Judith....
...On YouTube, a South Korean woman displays her paintings of hell, having been taken there one fateful day by Jesus Christ himself....
...On the one hand, the young sculptor soaked up the Neoplatonism that was the lifeblood of Medici culture....
...Between them, they pioneered the genre of the sacred conversation – where saints are placed in a unified space – and pushed the expressiveness of their suffering Christs to agonised limits....
...He’s also asked a curious assortment of celebrities, including Damien Hirst, Guy Ritchie, and Niall Horan from One Direction, who is excitedly tweeting: “Jesus Christ that was unbelievable!...
...The young Titian dazzles with radiant colour and pellucid light. As an old man, he jettisons brush for fingers and an expressionistic style that hints at inner turmoil....
...And he loves this indifference to hardcore classicism, reckons it a signal characteristic of British art, a V-sign stuck in the face of academic draftsmanship....
...“Well, my big dose of working-class life was when I was really young....
...One shows a young woman in translucent dress, a baby on her shoulders, in conversation with a naked young man....
...With the help of his young daughter, Leonard found it had last been modernised during the second world war....
...In 1541, he was the only artist prepared to accept Cosimo’s challenge to paint a Baptism of Christ in just six days to celebrate the christening of his son, Francesco....
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