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...bullring while he was studying to be a bullfighter himself; he was astonished when one sold for $2. Since few people in town had actually seen original works of art, Botero says he painted "by intuition," but quickly realized he had found his passion. He gently told his mother, Flora, that he wanted to be an artist. "She warned me, 'You're going to die of hunger,'" Botero recalls. "I couldn't care less. I was so happy." Botero proved his mother wrong the following year, when he was 17, by winning a national art prize of about...
...With so much flora and fauna on display, the show offers relatively few pictures of people. Only one portrait is included: the stern Cho Man-young, with stringy beard and moustache, painted by Yi Han Chul in the 19th century. Still, there are some lovely renderings of the literati themselves: scholars alone in their pavilions admiring nature, or meandering through the countryside on the backs of donkeys, or on a picnic?challenging one another to produce the best picture or most expressive calligraphy. One of the most charming is Yi Song Rin's 1748 Sage and Child Under the Moon...
...firm's cavernous St. Michael's warehouse is jammed with around $7.5 million worth of curios. A set of elegantly cast stair spindles removed from the Royal Albert Hall (a bargain at $320 each) sits next to an enormous 1850s mahogany display case ($13,200) that originally held flora specimens at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. A regularly updated list of antiques can be found at www.lassco.co.uk, or call (44-20) 7749 9944. Manager Anthony Reeve hasn't sold any of London's bridges yet, but it can only be a matter of time...
...firm's cavernous St. Michael's warehouse is jammed with around $7.5 million worth of curios. A set of elegantly cast stair spindles removed from the Royal Albert Hall (a bargain at $320 each) sits next to an enormous 1850s mahogany display case ($13,200) that originally held flora specimens at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. A regularly updated list of antiques can be found at www.lassco.co.uk, or call (44-20) 7749 9944. Manager Anthony Reeve hasn't sold any of London's bridges yet, but it can only be a matter of time...
...Winthrop House, Benjamin A. Black ’05, Sarah E. Curtis ’05, Brian J. Distelberg ’05, Flora M. Lindsay-Herrera ’05, Peter J. Lovely ’05, Sameer Narang ’05, Richard J. Powell ’05, David A. Sola-Del Valle ’05, Julia A. Stephens ’05, and Gretchen M. Weingarth...