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Sarah Dunant

Giovanni Cariani, Saint Agatha (detail)

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< 7 years ago

Going for gold: Venice in the 16th century

The first decade of the 16th century saw Venice become a creative cauldron, as a glittering array of painters put the city on the cusp of an artistic golden age. Sarah Dunant celebrates some of the most influential figures.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, The Tailor (detail)

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> 8 years ago

Giovanni Battista Moroni: Cut from a different cloth

One of the greatest of all portraitists, Giovanni Battista Moroni captured his sitters’ psychology with exceptional honesty and insight. As the Academy stages the biggest survey in Britain of the Renaissance painter’s work, novelist Sarah Dunant evokes the many characters who emerged from his canvases.