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Martinelli on a shootNot many practise the art that Antonio Martinelli has mastered, tracking down views from old paintings and photographing them from the exact vantage points of the present day. Martinelli, an architect by training, exhibits sets of prints done by orientalists Thomas and William Daniells, who recorded amazing scenery during their late 18th century travel through India. Martinelli followed their routes between 1995 and 1997, capturing on film what the brothers did with watercolour and oils. As much as a display of craft, it's a statement of how time changes things, whether it's a valley view in Garhwal, the Qutab Minar, the decimation of caves at Ellora or the mute grandeur of ruins in Gaur. An exhibition at Art Today (Oriental Scenery 'Then & Now', February 5-20) will not display all of Martinelli's work with George Michell for a lavish book last year. What there is though, is a historian's, photographer's and architect's delight.

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