The Crucifixion (details)
Jan Van Eyck
From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Money complicates everything. I've got a genuine belief that art is a more powerful currency than money - that's the romantic feeling that an artist has. But you start to have this sneaking feeling that money is more powerful. They constantly collide, these notions. I even toyed with the idea that having too much money was the same as having not enough."

Damien Hirst, the world's most famous living artist, Observer UK 19.Feb.06


'In the name of the father'
sheep crucified and suspended in formaldehyde