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The Met’s Siena Renaissance Show Is a Masterpiece
Go see it now.
They were honoring a giant double-sided altarpiece with 53 pictures depicting martyrs, saints, miracles, and poignant scenes from the lives of Mary and Jesus. There are textiles, manuscripts, ivory carvings, stone sculptures, and one shocking wooden head of Christ split open during World War II. (As my wife remarked, “Perspective was really bad for painting.”) In Siena a new richness of detail appears, space takes on character, figures fill out, paint becomes fleshy, and color, especially an array of blues, is set free.
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