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  Black pages, the Younger Holbein, and MoreJul 16, 2010 4:21 AM PDT | url
 
Added 3 new A* pages:Ah, good ol' page 35. Yes, that is an all-black page (actually it's an army of crows fighting the panther rebellion at midnight deep in the jungle during a storm), betcha it'll be my all-time print best seller! =p
 
On a completely different topic that I just feel like sharing, check out this awesome painting by German painter Hans Holbein the Younger, his Portrait of Thomas More (<- click that for the source and a much larger version):
 
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Man, what a painting! This was in 1527, before More became Chancellor of England (1529) and started burning heretics and stuff (and eventually resigned and got himself executed in 1535 because he refused to go along with Henry VIII inventing his own religion)--still pretty intense. What's interesting too is that while Holbein did do plenty of portraits of royalty, his portraits of lower ranking officials--More was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster at the time of his portrait--and private citizens are by and large much, much better; I think he must have felt a lot of constraints when painting kings and queens.
 
 
 
 
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