How Man Who Painted This Madonna Is Now Catholic Church's Favourite Artist
The Scotsman › October 04, 2008
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HE PAINTED pop star Madonna in the nude, went to war armed with charcoal and oils, and battled an addiction to drink and drugs.
Now Peter Howson, Scotland's most famous contemporary artist, is undertaking his greatest challenge yet by completing a massive painting for the Catholic Church which the artist hopes will rival Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.See the full content of this document
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How Man Who Painted This Madonna Is Now Catholic Church's Favourite Artist
The Martyrdom of St John Ogilvie will be a giant oil painting, 5m wide and 8m high, which will feature 600 individual figures in the largest crowd scene ever painted in Scotland.
The subject is the Catholic saint who was hanged at Gl...See the full content of this document
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