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Neo-Byzantine: Obama as Golden Haloed Medieval Art Icon

Tue Mar 24, 2:26 AM ET U.S. President Barack Obama in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington, March 23, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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Prance, Blow, and Have Peak Experiences: Men in Tights from the 1400s Remind You How to Live (Detail of a Painting at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA)

I see that the elementary laws never apologize . . . I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. (Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” lines 411, 420-421)

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