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THE SWING

With the push of the naive foot It flew to the clouds: We thank these clouds For not having kept it. GEORGE LEPAPE 1912

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THE SAINTS

  THE SAINTS PETER, VALERIAN AND CECILIA – MOSAIC DATABLE BETWEEN 817 AND 824 – CHURCH OF SAINT CECILIA IN TRASTEVERE, ROME The figure at the right displays an elegant feminine apparel of the beginning of the IX century: a light crown (circulus) with pendants on the head and the …

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FEDERICO FELLINI/3

In 1990, 30 years later, La voce della luna offers the melancholy and fairytale vision of the Italian de-realisation: the disorganisation, the fragmentation, the mad loquacity, the loss of sense, the collective suicidal instinct in the addiction to the chaos, the excruciating need for a meaning of life, the essence …

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AMBROSE

  AMBROSE HAVING FALLEN ASLEEP NEAR THE ALTAR IS MIRACOLOUSLY CONVEYED TO TOURS – SILVER BAS-RELIEF OF THE VUOLVINIO ALTAR – CIRCA 835 – BASILICA OF SAINT AMBROSE, MILAN Saint Ambrose in bishop’s garb wears a planet with the sacred pallium, of which one may glimpse the corner which flows …

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