Word: semiclad
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...Biennale, a Turner Prize nominee in 1998, and the youngest artist to be given a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. Although the title of her Beckham portrait winks at Michelangelo's most famous sculpture, she says her inspiration was another of his sculptures, Night, a curiously muscular, semiclad woman carved in the 1520s for the crypt of Giuliano de' Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Gazing at David, one can't help but think of Andy Warhol's Sleep - the 1963 work in which he trained his 16-mm camera on the slumbering form...