Hints and tips:
...playing on a pitch by the port while, tucked away in Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo’s “Mona Lisa”, the crystalline “Virgin Immaculate” (1476) by local hero Antonello da Messina, holds her breath, raises a hand...
...The same buyer also snapped up a Maillol and a Matisse: the Asian bidding was rewarding the firm’s persistence in wooing the Asian market, according to specialist David Norman....
...In the last summer of his life Norman Mailer felt he had the face he deserved and the solitude he craved....
...The collaboration used Norman Rockwell’s interpretation in Santa’s case, and recorded the noise made by reindeer....
...Particularly if you don’t read much, it gets stored in the same mnemonic trivia bin that holds the epigrams of Marcus Aurelius, the Norman conquest, the Mona Lisa, the UK’s General Strike of 1926 and “Yes...
...Strolling through the living room you spot a familiar image of the Mona Lisa complete with moustache and goatee – Marcel Duchamp’s “L.H.O.O.Q.” (1940)....
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