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...architectural surround and that the viewer literally moves through it. On ascending the central staircase, the first thing that the viewer encounters is From the Conquest to the Present, in the five central vaulted bays painted between 1929 and 1931. Above, there are scenes of conquistadors fighting Aztecs in the lower section of this wall and scenes of post-conquest life...

...architectural projects. Prodigies were not an uncommon feature in Renaissance biographies of ‘great men’, but those described by Pico (‘Letter from Pandolfo Pico’) and Michiel (‘Letter from Marcantonio Michiel’) directly reference Christ. A section of the roof of the papal palace had collapsed shortly before the artist’s death, echoing a passage in the Book...

...architectural projects, became the dominant form of visual art in the Netherlands. It has been estimated that in the twenty-year period from 1640 to 1659 alone, between 1.3 and 1.4 million paintings were produced in the Netherlands – a remarkable figure given that the population at mid-century numbered approximately 2 million. Contemporary reports describe large numbers...