Saturday, January 12, 2013

13th century painter predicts Lehman Bros crash



I’ve come to think that, even a continent away, and at the distance of seven hundred years, it is possible to see the first slight tremblings of the Lehman Brothers crash in this tiny painting of a mother and her child.
from The Unexpected Double History of Banking and The Art World
Don’t click that link unless you want a load of bull.   And no pictures.   I had to dig the picture up from the Met’s webpage.

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