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...Much is owed to early naturalists such as John James Audubon and Maria Sibylla Merian, and recently their centuries-old studies of birds, plants and insects are seeing a new bloom of collectors....
...His “Divine Spouse”, intended to focus the minds and ease the days of cloistered nuns, shows a doe-eyed, rosy-lipped Jesus lolling in a bed of flowers and letting a tiny lamb nibble on his bare feet....
...As for prices, they vary from a few thousand (for instance Kiichi Asano’s evocative “Himi” (1956) of a Japanese winter at Eric Franck, £7,000) or “Doe Eye” (1950) by Erwin Blumenfeld ($12,000, Edwynn Houk...
...Dressed in bespoke Hawaiian by designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, the intervening years may have burnished those really, really ridiculously good looking faces, but no matter....
...Mr Zapatero, with a glint in his doe-like eyes, replied that there were no grounds to compare Spain with Greece. Almost two years later, the outgoing premier has some reason to feel vindicated....
...Maria Cantwell and Ron Wyden, Democratic senators, led a group of colleagues to push the US commodity regulator to adopt rules to crack down on large commodity investors....
...Daniel Ruzumna, lawyer for one of the so-called John Doe plantiffs, said the decision to name the 10 individuals was “inappropriate”....
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