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The Renaissance really began in a few decades at the beginning of the 15th century in Florence an artistic revolution mapped out in a remarkable exhibition that assembles 140 sculptures and paintings from collections around the world. Works by
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January 18, 2012 Belgian painters depicted in strong and direct representations, almost as a social warning, the dark sides of the banking business. ItalyIt is a good thing to earn money, but even better is knowing how to spend it, Giovanni Rucellai
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Florence, Museo Stibbert The Usurers by Marinus van Reymerswaele If you went to the Frieze Art Fair this month, you'll know more than enough about art's links to money. Collecting has always offered a way of turning cash into aesthetics, and never
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Story continues below The city you stroll through today was largely built by those bankers. Santa Maria Novella, constructed to a revolutionary classical design in 1461 by the architect Leon Battista Alberti, was paid for by the Rucellai banking
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In 1938, bullied by Ben Nicholson, John Piper was struggling to be an abstract painter. Plagued by doubts, he joined the crowd of 15,000 queuing to see Picasso's Guernica in London...At 34, his world had been shaken by a Spaniard nearing 60, a man
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The rich and powerful recruit artists, photographers and filmmakers to burnish their images, while going to great lengths to repel the unwanted attentions of less partisan professionals who might subvert them. Portraits and Power: People, Politics
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