09-06-2017 18:01 via theguardian.com

A sci-fi odyssey, subversive curiosities and a medieval genius – the week in art

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This close look at the art of a forgotten master is a trip to the very birth of the Renaissance. Giovanni da Rimini’s masterpiece Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints (1300-05) is a window on the moment when Italian artists rejected the stiffness of Byzantine painting and started to look at reality w
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