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Barberini's Phaune

History The statue comes from Rome, where it was found in the moats of Castel Sant'Angelo around 1624. In 1628 it was already in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Barberini. It became immediately one of the most admired statues in Rome, compared in beauty to the mutilated Belvedere Torso. Preserved in Palazzo Barberini, where it was admired and described for two centuries, it became the object of attempts to purchase already in the second half of the eighteenth century, like countless works of art from the Roman princely collections during the Grand Tour. The Faun was restored several times, the first two times in 1628 and 1635 by Arcangelo Gonnelli, who gave it a reclining position. In 1679 a new restoration by Giuseppe Giorgetti and Lorenzo Ottoni changed the pose of the sculpture, from reclining to sitting on a rock. The two restorers were strongly influenced in their choice of pose by the River Nile in Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Fountain of the Rivers. The additions of the legs and left arm were in stucco. More than a century later, in 1799, the Faun was sold directly by the Barberinis, who were in serious financial crisis, to the Roman sculptor and restorer Vincenzo Pacetti, who restored it again by replacing the stucco pieces with marble additions. Pacetti hoped to sell the sculpture to a wealthy foreign buyer. In 1804, following a lawsuit, the Barberinis managed to regain possession of the Faun. It was Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, who was setting up the Munich Glyptothek at the time, who purchased it in 1814. Cardinal Bartolomeo Pacca had an export ban placed, also at the request of Antonio Canova, so that this masterpiece would remain in Rome; but after several years of diplomatic pressure, the ban was revoked and the sculpture left Rome at the end of 1819. On 6 January 1820 it arrived in Munich, where it was placed in a semi-circle that had long been specially designated for it in the Glyptothek. Further restoration work was carried out in 1972, removing the right leg inserted by Pacetti, which was reintegrated more adequately in 1986. It is considered a masterpiece of Hellenistic sculptural art.

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Terzo in his papa robe ♡︎

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So, no Grammy nomination for Ghost, this year...they requested for the "Future is a Foreign Land" song and for "Rite Here Rite Now" soundtrack, but both didn't work.

Well, at the end, it seems only Terzo will be the Ghost Grammy Papa.

Maybe is right...

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Hi Terzo, still a beauty man.

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Good morning everyone, it's Monday morning, and I'm so happy and full of energy!

Let's have a quick breakfast then we can start...

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Goodbye to this year. A Sacred Fire for our beloved ones. Tomorrow will be a new start, a new moon, maybe a new life. Let's drink and light a candle for the ones left behind.

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Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam! ...

Well, no.

We still don't have a Papa (door blocked...you know), but we have a WorldWide tour.

Well, "worldwide"...for sure lot of this planet still missing, anyway, 4 of may in Milan.

See ya.

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Cardinal Terzo sketch

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Hunter's Moon. Here is the second Full Moon after the autumn equinox. The fields are bare and even the trees are losing their leaves. And winter is coming, so there is a need to stock up on food. A beautiful moon, illuminating these empty fields and these bare trees… In the past, farmers would also finish harvesting in the fields with the help of the light of the Harvest Full Moon. When the next Full Moon came, the fields had already been cleared and cleaned, and so hunters could easily see the animals sneaking around the fields in search of food, before winter came. Also, at this time of year, the Moon rises around sunset and sets at dawn, allowing hunters to stalk and flush out their prey even during the night. The animals have no way to hide, they are prey to the hunters. Great hunting trips tonight, with the almost certainty of being able to catch many animals. For this reason the Hunter's Moon is also called the Blood Moon… many prey will shed their blood tonight. According to a Native American custom, during the night of the full moon in October, witches would gather in a forest and, lighting a fire, would start pouring the blood of the animals they had just hunted. In doing so, witches thanked nature for having given them food and donated the same blood to planet Earth, as a symbol of respect and gratitude.Tonight's moon will be very bright, a so-called "Supermoon", very close to perigee, or the closest distance from Earth: it will appear about 7% larger and brighter than the Full Moon at its farthest point from Earth. As with every Full Moon, I prepared the Moon Water, exposed my crystals and left my Tarot deck to feed on the light of the Moon. Then I burned a sigil with a prayer of growth, and this morning I buried its ashes under the large olive tree in my garden. Thank you, Mother Moon.

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Hi Terzo…you're also destroyed, and it's only Tuesday? Well, there are two of us…

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Salem's night...

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I can't do nothing about this shoot....it is too much hilarious for me!

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Papa Emeritus Terzo reading fanfictions about him...

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Rats

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Bianca de’ Medici, better known by the diminutive Bia, was the eldest child of Duke Cosimo I. The child had been born in 1537, thus two years before the marriage between Cosimo and Eleonora celebrated in 1539, from an illegitimate relationship between the duke and a woman whose identity is still unknown. Welcomed into the Medici household, Bia had been raised along with the couple’s legitimate children (they had as many as eleven) with the same affection that all members of the family reserved for the little ones, first and foremost her grandmother Maria Salviati, who had a special fondness for Bia. This loving relationship was also accounted for in 1560 by Simone Fortuna, ambassador of Francesco Maria II della Rovere in Tuscany, who wrote in a letter that Duke Cosimo, during his first years in the duchy, “had from a gentlewoman of Fiorenza a little whore, who was baptized in the name of His Most Illustrious Excellency, and was called Bia. Et la Signora duchessa Leonora, finding her at home, raised her lovingly as born that she was by her husband before she was his wife.”

Behind the painting of exceptional beauty and refinement, however, lies a sad story: in fact, the painting dates back to the period between 1542 and 1545, but it is a posthumous portrait, because little Bia lost her life at the age of only five. Her father Cosimo left for Arezzo, which belonged to the Florentine possessions, taking Bia with him as well. On the return journey the latter suddenly fell ill: it was the end of January 1542 and the little girl died after a few weeks, to the despair of the whole family who had seen taken away at a tender age that little creature whom everyone loved and who was so full of life, as Bronzino himself wished to express in the Uffizi canvas, in which, as already written, the little girl seems to rise at any moment from that Dantean chair and where she plays with the golden chain between her fingers that encircles her waist.

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and so, finally, here we are. Well, no, not yet: the colors are missing, the text to the comics is missing (I would like to release it in both Italian and English)….but, finally, the first episode of my comic about Ghosts is shaping up. I am very happy, I admit: it is not exactly how I imagined it, but I like it a lot….in the end, the important thing is that the story takes its path. And it will be a long road…