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This clip contains footage of statues, religious paintings; contains VO describing artwork, artists and history. Begins with various MCU of a bust statue of Lorenzo de’ Medici an art patron. Cuts to MCU of Fra Angelico’s ‘Descent from the Cross’. Dissolve to Massacio’s ‘The Mother and Child with Saint Anne’, CU of the Madonna, zoom out. Dissolve to Boticelli’s ‘Madonna of the Magnificat’, CU of the painted faces. Dissolve to CU of Boticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’, zoom out to painting in entirety.