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A magnificent silver and turquoise Navajo necklace, datable to circa 1910. It’s a “zucchini flower” necklace – typical of that period. The manufacturing technique of the silver was learned from the Spanish; then the Navajo matched commercial silver to the semi-precious turquoise which was easily found in their traditional territory  …

Must I take what you offer? … With women one can never know! … CHARLES MARTIN 1913

  THE STORY GIDEON AND THE ANGEL (PART.) – 11th CENTURY FRESCO– CHIESA DI SANT’ANGELO IN FORMIS In the 11th century, the Byzantine-inspired frescoes of St. Angelo in Formis testify of an artwork tradition that transfigures reality in crystallized modules, but however appear permeated by real elements such as the …

  With the disappearance of the waistcoat in the early 1960’s, wide ties – up to sixteen centimeters – became the norm. This resulted in very voluminous knot.

When a ray of sunlight cleaves the fog, it cuts it, dissolves it. And slowly the world, or a detail of the world, appears: a wall, a piece of the road, a tree, a face. Everything becomes wonderful, mysterious, a miracle; and this is what happens in the mind of …