 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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Ethics is for the birds now that George Walker Bush has become paltry poultry.(News)
Cape Times (South Africa)
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July 6, 2007
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BYLINE: Michael Stent
NOT many people can have seen a lame duck. Can it still swim, and if not, why not? Can it fly? What does it do for sex?
And why pick on ducks? Why not a lame chicken or pigeon or goose? A lame ostrich has a certain ring to it, but this is not even considered.
The English language is strange, though, and lame duck it is when applied to a leader teetering towards the end of his career.
George Walker Bush is apparently one, although when normal people think of the carpetbagger who is squatting in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, ...
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Padua's Splendid Array of Bronze
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; ...humanist scholar.Just as Bellano had completed Donatello's outstanding commissions, so in turn did his pupil, Andrea Briosco, known as ''il Riccio,'' bring the Roccabellona tomb to its conclusion after Bellano's death. Bellano an
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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A [pounds sterling]150,000 gift that goes to the head; COLLECTING.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...5 million - Sotheby's European sculpture and works of art sale includes a Renaissance terracotta masterpiece, Andrea Briosco's Virgin and Child. But perhaps some of the oddest objects coming up for sale before Christmas are 14 paintings...
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ARTS GUIDE
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; ...century. The exhibition brings together bronze work by Donatello and such contemporaries as Bartolomeo Bellano, Andrea Briosco and Vittore Camelio. www.padovanet.it/padovacult/donatello-japanTokyo-Hara Museum, tel: (3) 3445...
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 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Beit that! Sale of bronzes copperfastens an Irish gem.(NEWS)
Magazine article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
; ...the Golden Age collectors. The bronze figure of a gladiator by one of the leading sculptors of the Renaissance, Andrea del Briosco, called Riccio (1470-1532), sold for a record EU1,086,336. A contemporary of Michelangelo, Leonardo...
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Works from the meeting point of Gothic and Renaissance
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; ...the Passion for the Antique: Andrea Riccio and his Time," at...exhibition until Feb. 15.) Andrea Riccio was born in Trent in...Ambrogio di Cristoforo di Briosco, was an itinerant goldsmith...Curly") was the nickname Andrea acquired on account of his...
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