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Published: October 30th 2008
On Thursday 30th October, Paddy Walsh took me to the Byzantium Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. It is open from 25 October 2008 to 22nd March 2009. It shows a vast array of paintings especially icons, busts such as that of Constantine 1, coins, parchments including some depicting the psalms, reliquaries, mosaics, chandeliers, perfume braziers and embroideries. Apparently W B Yeats wallowed in the culture's mystery and splendour: ' ... I have sailed the seas and come/To the holy city of Byzantium ...'
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