His official website says the artist started the famous portrait in Java in 1946.
He gave it to his wife, Mary I of England, who wears it in a famous portrait.
Resemblances between his work and that of Rodin, Dali and others are, he says, coincidental although the black fedora apparently plastinated to his head is a nod towards the anatomist's hat in a famous portrait by Rembrandt.
There are no sketches or documents relating to the Sistine Madonna's composition, but the museum fills this gap by exhibiting several other Raphaels, including the famous portrait (on loan from the Uffizi) of a melancholy Julius II slumped in his red throne and a portrait of the noblewomen Donna Velata, whose noble features may have inspired Raphael's depiction of Mary in the Sistine Madonna.
This episode makes for quite a read, especially when accompanied by Van Gogh's famous Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
The paintings include one of his most famous works, a portrait of Mrs Altmann's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer.
It is ironic that the Sistine Madonna's most famous aspect is not its emotionally complex portrait of Mary and Jesus, but rather the cherubs propping themselves up on an altar at the base of the composition.
The show displays two of his most famous pieces, "Bubbles, " a portrait of his angelic grandson blowing soap bubbles, and "Souvenir of Velzquez, " a deeply textured formal portrait of a young girl that was a tribute to the Spanish master.
Historians will enjoy this fine political portrait, but it is unlikely to make Bright famous again.
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