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Ci sarà un regalino in ogni scatolino sulla schiena dei tre rapaci befanoidi? (Il tre torna spesso nel lavoro di El Gato: “E’ il mio numero preferito anche perché è uno dei più ricchi di simbologia”). El Gato Chimney, Giardino segreto. Acquerello e tempera su carta cotone, 100x70 cm, 2016.
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Illustrations from One Hundred Portraits of Peking Opera Characters - China, circa 1900
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Barbus Muller
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Edward Del Rosario
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Animistic mask from Nepal
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Francisco de Goya - A Scene from The Forcibly Bewitched. 1798
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El Gato Chimney - In ogni dove
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El Gato Chimney - Mai troppo tardi (2013)
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Procession of penitents in flagellation robes embroidered with rick-ram trim in the form of the cross c.1575
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Masked Dancer
(source: record.museum.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
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Marcus Leatherdale - "Strawman 2 - Muria", 2000, from 'Adivasi'
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Utopian flying machines, France (1890-1900)
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Diamond Python
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John Taylor (1642)
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Bartholomeus Anglicus - The Properties of Beasts, from the "Livre des propriétés des choses" by Jean Corbechon (1447)
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Giovanni di Paolo - Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Saving a Shipwreck; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA (1457)
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino’s aid is popularly invoked to ease the pain of the souls in Purgatory.
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