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How are you interpreting its content into your own work?
Picasso is the chameleon of art and he chose to join in on a fascinating project with SkirIt was the beginning of a wonderful collaboration. This book relaxes and simultaneously stimulates me. To read a text that has been of interest for the last 2 Coach Outlet Bags,000 years is so humbling and elating.
What about it speaks to you?
Picasso’s light and elegant renderings of classic subjects complement the text so beautifully. All stories, from the beginning of creation to the age of Augustus, are written down here Coach Outlet Bags, it’s a fascinating and bold undertaking.
Who would you recommend giving a copy of it to as a gift?
Ovid — he would love the illustrations, no doubt.
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How did you discover this book?
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At school I had Latin for years —Ovid is such a famed poet and extraordinary character who was exiled on Emperor Augustus’s personal behest. He intrigued me and I adore his writing. Here, the entire myths and stories of classical Greece are accompanied by Picasso etchings commissioned by Albert Skira. It is an ambition of mine to one day own the antiquarian original — only around 140 were produced.
Please summarize the book in one sentence.
Ancient and modern Coach Outlet Bags, eternal pleasure.
The London-based jewelry designer Julia Muggenburg of Belmacz picked a paperback copy of Ovid’s epic mytho-historical tale Metamorphoses (Insel, Frankfurt) to share with T. Defining this particular edition of the Roman poet’s masterpiece — aside from it being written in Muggenburg’s native German — are the illustrations by Pablo Picasso, which come from a series he started in 1930 for the Swiss publisher Albert Skira. Here, Muggenburg on the book’s soothing effect and travel-friendly size.
For how long have you owned it?
For years. It is so handy size-wise and often follows me around on my travels. Such evocative stories with fine, open drawings — it’s perfect everywhere, really.
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