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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 and Closing in March

He was only 25 when he died in 1898, yet Aubrey Beardsley 's sensuous, subversive and often risqué drawings are among the most memorable images of the late Victorian era. An exhibition opening on March 4 at Tate Britain in London will be the largest to showcase his original works since the mid-1960s. It runs through until May 25. Over at Tate Modern, the doors open on March 12 on Andy Warhol . The show will feature more than 100 works from across Warhol's colourful career, with images from Marilyn Monroe to Lenin and Mao, not forgetting the odd can of Campbell's soup. On for not just 15 minutes, but almost six months, through to September 6. In the middle of the 16th century, King Philip II of Spain commissioned Titian to paint a series showing Classical myths. The six pictures, dubbed by Titian "poesie" because he saw them as the visual equivalents of poetry, are being reunited for the first time in 400 years for an exhibition at London's National Galler...
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Troy -- An Epic Experience

Nearly everyone knows something of the story of the Trojan Horse -- how the Greeks hid soldiers inside a cunningly constructed giant wooden horse and tricked the people of Troy, with whom they'd been at war for years, into bringing it into their city, leading to its downfall. The legend surrounding Troy and the Trojan war has endured for thousands of years, though in these modern times, when the study of the classics is not that common -- and there are so many other stories competing for our attention -- the characters and their exploits are likely to be rather hazy for many of us, once we've got past the horse, of course. Troy: Myth and Reality at the British Museum in London seeks to put flesh on the bones of the myths, to find out the truth underlying the legend, and to show how it's inspired artists down the centuries. Does it succeed? Some bits of it do. But it has to be said that unless you're already pretty well up on your Greek and Roman gods and heroes, yo...
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