Damien Hirst - For the Love of God

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View across the exhibition showing Biopsy Paintings on the left, the life-sized silver figure Saint Bartholomew in the centre, and the formaldehyde work Death Explained 2007, showing a dissected shark, in the background.
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Visitors stand behind a dove in formaldehyde entitled The Incomplete Truth, part of the Natural History series.
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View showing Hirst's The Incomplete Truth and the Birth Paintings behind, which depict the birth of the artist’s youngest son Cyrus by caesarean section in August 2005.
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A visitor inspects dissected cows, part of the Natural History series.
Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

A man examines Death Explained, originally conceived as a drawing in 1991, which presents a tiger shark divided longitudinally with each half of its body suspended in a separate tank of formaldehyde.
Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

A visitor looks at one side of Hirst's dissected shark, Death Explained, which has been suspended in two different tanks.
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A woman stands behind Hirst's Sacred (With Hope) - an animal heart pierced by a dagger.
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Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain shows a single tank containing a black calf, its body pierced by dozens of arrows and cable-tied to a steel post.
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A glass tank containing an incubator, part of a series of works on the birth of Hirst's youngest son in August 2005.
Photograph: Stephen White/Science Ltd and Jay Jopling/ White Cube

And finally ... For the Love of God, a life-sized cast of a human skull in platinum. The work is covered entirely by 8,601 VVS to flawless pavé-set diamonds, weighing a total of 1,106.18 carats. The piece is valued at £50m and Hirst himself keeps only a copy at home. "You couldn't really just shove it on the mantelpiece," he told reporters.
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