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Very Rich Hours in Chantilly

It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience: the chance to see one of the greatest -- and most fragile -- works of European art before your very eyes. The illustrated manuscript known as the  Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry contains images that have shaped our view of the late Middle Ages, but it's normally kept under lock and key at the Château de Chantilly, north of Paris. It's only been exhibited twice in the past century. Now newly restored, the glowing pages of  Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry are on show to the public for just a few months. "Approche, approche," the Duke of Berry's usher tells the visitors to the great man's table for the feast that will mark the start of the New Year. It's also your invitation to examine closely the illustration for January, one of the 12 months from the calendar in this Book of Hours -- a collection of prayers and other religious texts -- that form the centrepiece of this exhibition in Chantilly.  It's su...
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Opening in March: A Tale of Two Cities

There's an impressive range of new art shows starting in both London and Paris in March. So before cross-Channel traffic grinds to a juddering halt.... The rediscovery of Greek and Roman art in the 15th and 16th centuries saw artists north and south of the Alps put the human body at the forefront of their painting and sculpture. That's the theme of The Renaissance Nude  from March 3 to June 2 at the Royal Academy in London. Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Bronzino, Dürer and Cranach are among those represented in an exhibition of around 90 works. Over at Tate Britain, the largest assembly of Vincent van Gogh's paintings in the UK for nearly a decade -- 45 of them -- is the big selling point of Van Gogh and Britain . The show   explores how he was inspired by British art and culture -- Constable, Millais and Dickens -- and in turn inspired British artists like Francis Bacon and David Bomberg. March 27 to August 11, with standard tickets costing £22, reflecti...
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Big Mac at 150: Glasgow Celebrates in Style

Even before the devastating second fire in Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art this summer, the city was making a big deal of its favourite son and perhaps its biggest tourist draw. The excellent show on Charles Rennie Mackintosh Making the Glasgow Style  at Kelvingrove Art Gallery was attracting lots of visitors from home and abroad -- the art-school blaze made international headlines -- when we saw it last week. And there's still a few weeks left to catch this exhibition, which provides an extremely detailed and fascinating overview, with about 250 artefacts, of the influences on the man and his circle, how he came to prominence, and the later years of decline. The reason for the show is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mackintosh's birth . He grew up in a Glasgow that was undergoing massive expansion economically and that was increasingly open to the world. As Mackintosh trained as a draughtsman and later studied at the School of Art, Japanese, ...
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