Like improbable time travelers, they pay us a visit in the gritty, noisy and busy 21
st-century urban jungle and the realities of life we face. You find the Virgin Mary and child from William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s
Song of the Angels riding in an empty subway car, two men from Hans Holbein the Younger’s
The Ambassadors sitting in a seedy bar, Mary Magdalene from Francesco Furini’s
The Penitent Magdalene in a shopfront, the Medieval couple from Francesco Hayez’s
The Kiss locked in an embrace on a train, the god of music from Nicolas Regnier’s
Apollon performing like a busker on a commuter route, Caravaggio’s David with Goliath’s severed head on the sidewalk, nymphs from Caesar van Everdingen’s
Bacchus on a Throne offering wine and fruit to the god of harvest and fertility at a bus depot in the dead of winter, and Luca Cambiaso’s Venus and Adonis as late-night revelers on a street bench.
