On the top landing of the Royal Academy is the Sackler Sculpture Corridor, a long stony shelf of torsos of gods, martial bodies, heads, a vast foot. At one end Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo is hidden behind slightly green glass. It is worth any pilgrimage. At the other end is a modest door into the print room and library.
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Edmund de Waal’s The White Road: a Pilgrimage of Sorts is published by Chatto and Windus. Edmund de Waal is a potter, and the author of The Hare with Amber Eyes and, most recently, The White Road.
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