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The Madame X Rocket
John Singer Sargent first showed his portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gatreau at the Paris Salon of 1884. More than 130 years later, the gigantic figure of Sargent’s masterpiece was launched into orbit on the thrust of millions of tiny pixels. The Madame X Rocket was built as a joint effort of the Royal Society […]
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