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s we look forward to a year of renewed possibility, we consider the very foundations of the Renaissance, propelling art, society and religion into a new age, and how these tenets allow us to stride forward and reset the dial. Entering a phase of great opportunity and renewal, this allows us to harness technological innovations, whilst celebrating moments at the pinnacle of creativity and culture.
This is encapsulated in the rare and Early Renaissance masterpiece Sandro Botticelli's Young Man Holding a Roundel, a highlight of the Masters Week sales in January. The intensely beautiful portrait captures a magical and groundbreaking moment in Florentine history, when for the first time since antiquity, the individual and his achievements were at the center of life and art.
Like the 15th-century artists that found inspiration in the ruins of Ancient Rome, artist and fashion photographer Erik Madigan Heck's work is at once timeless and futuristic. In an original episode of A Life Less Ordinary which premiers on 25 January, he discusses his own artistic processes and what it means to capture a person's likeness in portrait. He is known to "paint with his camera", interweaving classical portraiture, Impressionism and Pop Art to create images saturated with colour and simultaneously dreamlike, he has memorialized subjects from Tilda Swinton and Adele to President Joe Biden.
Synonymous with the creation of new worlds, Christo and Jean-Claude earned international renown and acclaim for their large-scale immersive and interactive works. Most notable among these was Wrapped Reichstag, a 24-year project in which Germany's symbol of democracy was enveloped in fragile fabric; and Valley Curtain that saw the husband and wife duo raise a vast fabric curtain in the mountains of Colorado in 1972, using the landscape as their canvas and shifting viewers' perceptions from the small and delicate, to the bold and monumental.
Like the 15th-century artists that found inspiration in the ruins of Ancient Rome, artist and fashion photographer Erik Madigan Heck's work is at once timeless and futuristic. In an original episode of A Life Less Ordinary which premiers on 25 January, he discusses his own artistic processes and what it means to capture a person's likeness in portrait. He is known to "paint with his camera", interweaving classical portraiture, Impressionism and Pop Art to create images saturated with colour and simultaneously dreamlike, he has memorialized subjects from Tilda Swinton and Adele to President Joe Biden.
Synonymous with the creation of new worlds, Christo and Jean-Claude earned international renown and acclaim for their large-scale immersive and interactive works. Most notable among these was Wrapped Reichstag, a 24-year project in which Germany's symbol of democracy was enveloped in fragile fabric; and Valley Curtain that saw the husband and wife duo raise a vast fabric curtain in the mountains of Colorado in 1972, using the landscape as their canvas and shifting viewers' perceptions from the small and delicate, to the bold and monumental.
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