retrospective
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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and now Raphael: New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating a retrospective to the third of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
MoMA’s show also nods to its own history with the power couple: Rivera received the museum’s second-ever retrospective in 1931, after Henri Matisse, and Kahlo entered the collection in 1943.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
McQueen-Prince said the move would also affect pension funds which invest in freeholds and damage investor confidence in the UK because of the retrospective nature of the changes.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
His bronze medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympics was only awarded five years later because of retrospective doping bans.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
Thereafter, as well as composing for all his subsequent films, Chaplin wrote and recorded retrospective scores for his earlier silent films, continuing to do so well into the 1970s.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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