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If you ever fancy reading a hundred-year-old book on art at your leisure, be prepared to fail to recognise half the names you meet, or at the very least to be surprised. Gieronimus Bos instead of Bosch, Lionardo spelt with an I, Yan fan Eyk, Van-Dyck with
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The Duchess looks mar-vel-lous!
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After the decline of the ancient world, countless masterpieces of art lost their value in the eyes of men. Marble sculptures were smashed so that their bases could be used in the foundations of outhouses, and magnificently wrought bronze statues were melted down for scrap. By the fifth and sixth
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For the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, the Canadian artist Rosemarie Pelokenn has made busts of Elizabeth II and Prince Charles... out of wool. And while the hairdos come off quite well in this medium, the faces seem to prove the reptilian origins of the House of Windsor
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