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I still recall, with something of a shock the moment, at the end of the first sitting, when I looked at what had been a lump of clay, and found that a third person was in the room.
On sitting to Elizabeth frink

John Pope-Hennessy

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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John Pope-Hennessy

John Pope-Hennessy
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Born: December 13, 1913
Died: October 31, 1994 (aged 80)
Bio: Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy was a British art historian and Director of the British Museum. He was a scholar of Italian Renaissance art.
Known for:
  1. The Portrait in the Renaissance (1966)
  2. The Piero Della Francesca Trail (1991)
  3. Italian Renaissance sculpture

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