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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their skill to display, and they did so with gusto: combining many figures for maximum drama - see the Florentine Ewer with the Triumph of Neptune (circa 1721) - or freeze-framing a body falling into ecstasy or death, as in a small Bernini clay sketch for Tomb of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (circa 1761-74). Baroque went way over the top and beyond, and this exhibition is the perfect way to revel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step Into the Age of Excess at the Victoria & Albert Museum | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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