Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Caravaggio Martha and Mary Magdalene painting

Caravaggio Martha and Mary Magdalene paintingCaravaggio Lute Player paintingCaravaggio Christ at the Column painting
Why you didn't throw them in the wpb?" Gibreel howled. Allie, still not fully understanding the size of his rage, continued lightly. She had kept the pictures because she liked them. The first was an old Punch cartoon in which Leonardo da Vinci stood in his atelier, surrounded by pupils, and hurled the Mona Lisa like a frisbee across the room. "_Mark my words_," he said in the caption, "_one day men shall fly to Padua in such as these_." In the second frame there was a page from _Toff_, a British boys' comic from World War II. It had been thought necessary in a time when so many children became evacuees to create, by way of explanation, a comic--strip version of events in the adult world. Here, therefore, was one of the weekly encounters between the -- the Toff (an appalling monocled child in Etonian bum-freezer and pin-striped trousers) and cloth--capped, scuffkneed Bert -- and the dastardly foe, Hawful Hadolf and the Nastiparts (a bunch of thuggish

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