Marcus Harvey a year with full colour reproductions and a commitment to no advertising. The cover design is in yellow, with the word "TURPS" and the iconic banana of Andy Warhol. In 2012, Turps Art School was founded to allow emerging and mid career painters to take a year painting intensive with other practicing painters, it has been heralded as an alternative model for arts education by Jonathan Jones for "The Guardian" in 2014 as "The renegade art school proving that painting is not dead." Harvey is known for his tabloid-provoking portrayal of Moors murderer Myra Hindley, created from handprints taken from
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: