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Also on at Royal Academy of Arts
- David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture, Until Sun Apr 8
- Driven to Draw, Until Sun Feb 12
- Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination, Until Sun Jun 17
- Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed, Mar 10-Jun 10
- Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012, Jun 4-Aug 12
Art exhibitions on today
- Finger, Hidde Van Seggelen
- Avner Ben-Gal, Sadie Coles
- Hamish Fulton: Walk, Turner Contemporary
- Right to Silence I, The Showroom
- Matt Lipps, Josh Lilley
- Hilary Jack: Singing Through the Fog..., Carter Presents
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In our culture, 'byzantine', stands for complication and intrigue, but it is simplicity and honesty that shine out from some of these works and call across the ages. A wall tile of St Nicholas shows an old man with sunken cheeks. He is ascetic but he is tired as well, gazing out at us from the tenth century he looks beaten by the struggle to be holy. Then, from 1507, Gentile Bellini's 'Cardinal Bessarion and Two Members of the Scuola della Carita in Prayer with the Bessarion Reliquary'. The cardinal's face, soft yet stern, possibly corrupt and utterly self possessed, forces its way out of the scene of adoration. (Michael Hodges)
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