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Ketty Gottardo is the Martin Halusa Senior Curator of Drawings at the Courtauld Gallery, London.
For an insight into image-making and legacy-building--made all the more interesting by the fact their architect was a 16th-century matriarch--look no further. --Vanity Fair Showcases the way in which Catherine promoted herself and her dynasty through lavish courtly events. --Apollo Caron's charming drawings teem with incident and detail, as well as flashes of wit, hurling us headlong into the astonishing world of the Valois 'Magnificences' - festivals, ceremonies and sporting events, as the catalogue informs us, organised by the last Valois kings of France. And if Caron's visual record of these royal jamborees is even half grounded in fact, then, my goodness, their scope, ambition, and exorbitant cost must have beggared belief. --The Telegraph Caron's drawings ... take you to the heart of this ornate culture. --The Guardian This fine catalogue ... highlights Caron's immense talent and illustrious patronage ... shows how small exhibitions on focused subjects and their publications elicit a wealth of new interest and research. -- (11/01/2018)
