“…with me Your Illustrious Lordship will not lose and you will find the spirit of Caesar in the soul of a woman.”
Artemisia Gentileschi in a letter to her patron Antonio Ruffo in 1649, defending a price she quoted for painting “eight figures, two dogs, a landscape and water”
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout
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Boxed CD sets in the Media Collection, University of Illinois Music and Performing Arts Library
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“I had a son in 1976. When I went to Europe, I met an Italian and we became friends. We would talk about what we would tell our families to do if the balloon wen…
[CAF Note: There is no more worthy cause for your holiday donations than the Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation. Dr Gonzalez was Solari Report Hero of the Year in 2015. Any more room in your budget for…
This letter was sent to the president, the provost, and many other University of Waterloo administrators on August 26th, 2021. A list of signatories is at the bottom. To have your own signature ad…
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