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'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free'
About Me
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Heroes
- Axel Leijonhufvud
- E.E.Evans-Pritchard
- Edmund Leach
- Francois Couperin
- Joan Robinson
- John Maynard Keynes
- Louis de Soissons
- Mario Draghi
- Noam Chomsky
- Pablo Picasso
- Paul Klee
- Pietro Porcinai
- The Earl of Onslow
- Umberto Boccioni
- Wassily Kandinski
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Blog Archive
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2013
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January
(19)
- If This is a Bank
- Monte dei Paschi Billions Mount Up
- Christians and Lions: Bersani Threatens to Tear U...
- A Tax on All Our Houses to Pay for Political Clien...
- Total Corruption
- On Being Savaged by a Dead Sheep: Munchau Goes for...
- Italy Irreconcilable
- Italian Prime Minister required to Undertake Self-...
- Charisma - the Cancer of Democracy
- Borrowing While the Going's Good
- Berlusconi Dumped by the European Centre Right
- Unbearable Bersani Bullies Ethical Voters
- Concept of Candidate Premier Given Boost by Magist...
- Cowardy Custard
- The Italian Job
- Napolitano puts Bersani in his Place
- Monti Puts Bersani in his Place
- Total Confusion in Italian Politics Causes Spread ...
- Berlusconi Wants Inquiry Into International Plot t...
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January
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
2 comments:
Item 1 : How to paint a portrait to perfection
Item 2 : Don't give up the day job. Oh! It IS your day job! Give it up.
Dreadful painting.
Eery, icy cold, sucking-in light rather than radiating it, without ornament or movement; the solid block of that face the only text. And what a text to be so plainly displayed.
I wouldn't like such a portrayal, true or false, so public, so detailed, so permanent.
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