How Antony Gormley's failed Buddhist monkhood turned him into the world's best sculptor
How Antony Gormley's failed Buddhist monkhood turned him into the world's best sculptor The man behind the 'Angel of the North' has a highly unusual CV Antony Gormley Credit: Getty “Look!” said Antony Gormley, “The splicing of the figures is genius! The female figure begins to look as if she belongs to the air, you begin to think maybe he’s just caught her as she was flying past!” We were in the middle of Florence on a bright spring afternoon, looking at The Rape of the Sabine Women, an amazingly complex, convoluted 16th-century marble carving by Giambologna. It stands in the Loggia...
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