Michelangelo’s favourite sculpture stars in show billed as a celebration of the beauty and ideals of ancient Greek artMichelangelo’s favourite sculpture, an impressively muscled torso more than 2,000 years old, is to travel from the Vatican to the UK for the first time, for the British Museum’s big spring exhibition on the human body in ancient Greek art, exploring a preoccupation with the body beautiful that continues today.From Bondi Beach to California and beyond, it remains the “body people want to have,” said the museum’s director, Neil MacGregor. Continue reading...
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