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Woman & Home Newsletter. Patrick Rothfuss - Blog. George R. R. Martin's Official Website. The Winds of Winter. Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Games, and Flashcards. London In The Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing, By Jerry White - Reviews - Books. Jerry White has compared this zone, in his study of the 19th-century city, to "necrotic tissue stealing remorselessly outwards from an unhealed wound.

London In The Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing, By Jerry White - Reviews - Books

" His new book traces the story back to the 18th century, where he finds the necrotic material so compacted into its origin that it permeates London's centre itself. As with his previous two volumes – he started with the 20th century – he shows us a terrible and magnificent metropolis, in a study both panoramic in scope and microscopic in detail. As the 18th century opened, London was still picking up the pieces after the 1666 Great Fire. Construction was everywhere, so that one could hardly navigate the streets for scaffolding. Have art restorers ruined Leonardo's masterpiece? - News - Art. Michael Daley, director of ArtWatch UK, spoke of his astonishment in discovering a draped sleeve had been reshaped so that Christ's right hand now emerges from a muff-like drapery that rests on the table when in both of the near-contemporary copies by Leonardo's own assistants the sleeve is painted falling behind the table.

Have art restorers ruined Leonardo's masterpiece? - News - Art

Copies of the original, completed in Milan in 1498, include the 1520s painting by Leonardo's pupil Giampietrino, which is owned by the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Comparing the restored figure of Christ in Milan with photographs of it before restoration, as well as with the contemporary copies, Mr Daley said: "There may now be a serious misrepresentation of Leonardo's final design. " The original, a mural in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery, is one of the world's most famous paintings. Mr Daley said he was surprised the restoration ignored Giampietrino's Last Supper.

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