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  SASSANID CHARACTER BIZANTINE TEXTILE WITH WINGED LION MOTIF – 7TH CENTURY– MUSEO NAZIONALE, FLORENCE Zoomorphic motifs are characteristic of Sassanid textiles: in this example the figures of rather stylised roaring lions are inscribed on the oval frames that follow one after the other forming horizontal strips; floral motifs stand …

  1914 September 11, Giacomo Balla Mankind has always dressed up in quietness, fear, caution or uncertainty, always clad in black mourning apparel, with the pluvial or the cape. The human body has always been debased by undertones or neutral shades, humiliated by black, suffocated by belts, imprisoned in drapes.   …

But why are you sitting here, as the celebrated person of the party, and not in the first row, where we, he did actually say “we” in fact, where we have reserved two seats for you and your companion? How come? he asked again, and it seemed all eyes in …

The horizontal development of the bow tie appears here rather peculiar, as if it were a tie, and longer than usual. The result is that of a diagonal against the shirt.

At that point, the so-called guests of honor had already taken place. But of course the party did not begin. And only then did my aunt and I know why.. Down there on the stage, worried people were going backwards and forwards at ever shorter intervals, as though looking for …