TY - JOUR T1 - Exhibition: <em>Bill Viola/Michelangelo Life Death Rebirth</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 141 LP - 141 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X701633 VL - 69 IS - 680 AU - Duncan Keeley Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/680/141.abstract N2 - Royal Academy of Arts, London, 26 January 2019 to 31 March 2019This superb exhibition brings together two artists, separated in time by 500 years but sharing preoccupations with life, death, and what might happen afterwards: ‘Whoever is born arrives at death through time’s swift passage; and the sun leaves nothing alive. What is sweet and what brings pain, man’s thoughts and words, all disappear; and our ancient lineages are as shadows to the sun, smoke to the wind.’These words were written by Michelangelo in 1520. On the wall to one side are his peerless drawings of the Madonna and Child and of a Pietà in which the same mother cradles her dead adult son. On the other side of the darkened … ER -