by Christopher Proudlove©It’s possible to pick up a Pablo Picasso print on an Internet site selling posters for £7.99. At the time of writing, a quick check on eBay revealed around 300 currently up for auction, some with a “Buy It Now” option for as little as £4.99. They were all probably printed yesterday. […]
Entries from September 2006
Picasso - pictures for the price of a print
September 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Tags: Picaasso · Paintings · Prints
Leonardo notebooks go online and available for download
September 6th, 2006 · No Comments
A newly-released website, www.davincinotebooks.com makes available the entire content of Leonardo da Vinci’s 14th century notes. Renaissance humanism saw no mutually exclusive polarities between the sciences and the arts, and as impressive and innovative as Leonardo’s artistic work are his studies in science and engineering, recorded in notebooks comprising some 13,000 pages of notes and […]
Tags: Books
Barbie for sale: the story behind the ‘biggest collection in the world’
September 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
by Christopher Proudlove©
Like most of the bargains I buy on impulse, I knew it would come in useful eventually. We were browsing in a shop selling remaindered books and on the basis that one day I felt sure I would need to write about collecting Barbie dolls, the big, glossy pink encyclopaedic guide to […]
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