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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2288341, member: 5833&quot;]Think every kid who was taking piano lessons when my mother was had Mozart &amp; Beethoven staring at them.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those interested but may not know: Clytie was a nymph hopelessly in love with Phoebus Apollo.&nbsp; He&#039;s not interested &amp; then she does something that makes him despise her, so all she can do is watch him as he traverses the sky each day, pining until she turns into a flower that keeps its face to the sun.&nbsp; We think of sunflowers but ancients may have had in mind heliotrope.</p><p><br /></p><p>The look of petals around the famous bust of this girl are probably all that led to an ID of Clytie.&nbsp; She is now thought to be a portrait of an actual person; Antonia Minor is the leading candidate.</p><p><br /></p><p>She turns up in the cameo world &amp; these two by Luigi Rosi live with me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]257952[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t you just hate that?&nbsp; It has happened to me plenty of times so that I have learned to take more care to keep the link with the pic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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