Myra (painting) Myra (painting) Myra is a large painting created by Marcus Harvey in 1995. It was displayed at the "Sensation" exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London from 8 September to 28 December 1997. The work measures . At first sight, it resembles a greatly magnified version of a black and white photograph printed in a newspaper. It was made using casts of an infant's hand to build up a mosaic of black, grey and white handprints, creating a reproduction of the iconic police photograph of a hard-faced Myra Hindley with bouffant peroxide blonde hair
Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder in London, England, called "Cosimo de' Medici as Pater Patriae".(link) The portrait is remarkable in part for the orientation of its subject. In 1997's "The Sculptures of Adrea del Verrocchio", Andrew Butterfield suggests that Botticelli may have "attempted to devise a new format for portraits" with this and his "Smeralda Bandinelli", by placing his subjects in the same "continuum" with their audience, directly engaging him. The identity of the young man in the portrait has never been agreed, but there has been considerable speculation. Writing in 1900, art historian George Noble Plunkett colorfully identified whom he believed the youth portrayed: