The Metropolitan's artwork for today is a drawing. Now, usually I am impatient with drawings and cannot understand why people would look at drawings when there are so many paintings in the world. 1756-58 by Giovanni Paolo Pannini. It is a pen and black ink drawing, with brush and gray wash, watercolor, over graphite. Over on the Great Buildings Online site, today's building is the Arch of Constantine , built in 315, also in Rome.
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The Tokyo National Museum's artwork for today is somewhat mysterious to me. It is this 8-foil mirror . Finally, the Daily Poetry Break for today presents a very fine poem called Argus , by Alexander Pope. A couple of people have mentioned how creeped-out they are by the fact that Debbie asked for photos of their children, and they sent them. I think, however, that this has gotten so big now, that she no longer feels silence is an option.