Campari: un momento piacevole (für E)

   

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A mistake may become an opportunity – Ένα λάθος είναι και μια ευκαιρία

Στην Γιαπωνέζικη κουλτούρα τα λάθη δεν επιτρέπονται. Ένα λάθος είναι ατιμωτικό, και αν μάλιστα είναι σοβαρό, μπορεί να αποτελέσει αιτία

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First day of the year 2016 – Lunch

  The day started with snow on the ground and the trees, the bushes, the table, the umbrella, and so

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Putti Sculptures from three periods: Hellenistic, (late) Renaissance, and Neoclassicism

Introduction The Italian word “putto” is derived from the Latin word “putus”, meaning “boy” or “child”. In this post I

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Festive Lunch – 1st January 2015 – Marathon, Attica, Greece

Today I rejoice the passage of time, culminating in the coming of the new year.   There is no better

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The Philosopher’s Conquest – A painting by Giorgio de Chirico

Introduction “One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, not only the great questions one has always asked oneself

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Bacalao the Magnificent

        A selection of some of the best bacalao dishes I have tasted, published as a photo

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Renato Guttuso: pictor diabolicus, “devilish painter”?

I was introduced to the work of Renato Guttuso back in 1996, when Whitechapel Gallery in London exhibited some of

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Casa sul Mare / House by the Sea – a poem by Eugenio Montale

Casa sul Mare is a wonderful poem from Montale’s collection ” Ossi di seppia (“Cuttlefish Bones”), which appeared in 1925.

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The Crouching Venus at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London

Some time ago I wrote about “A crouching Aphrodite in London“, a sculpure I saw at the British Museum. It

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