The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in the University of Birmingham has one of the finest of works by Domenico Beccafumi, delicious in its luscious colours and sensuous form.
If London art historians think Siennese artists, and Beccafumi in particular, are 'almost unknown to the public in England', they underestimate the Brummie eye for a reclining nymph.
The floozie in the jacuzzi was so contemptuously named with popular and educated discernment.
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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