Anger over Mandela autopsy painting
Yiull Damaso’s Rembrandt pastiche of South African leader is labelled ‘insult’ and ‘witchcraft’ by African National Congress A painting depicting Nelson Mandela as a corpse undergoing dissection has provoked disgust and been compared to witchcraft by South Africa’s governing party. The artwork is a parody of Rembrandt’s 17th-century masterpiece The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp . It shows …
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