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Posted: Sun July 1, 2007 05:40 PM UTC
What exactly is the meaning behind the sphere in the courtyard of the Vatican Museum ? Thank You......EEK
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Posted: Sun July 1, 2007 07:37 PM UTC
Some of Pomodoro's "Sphere Within Sphere" (Sfera con Sfera) can be seen in the Vatican Museums, Trinity College, Dublin, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Posted: Sun July 1, 2007 08:43 PM UTC
Huh, cgf, you did good! I always thought that it was just "art" (i.e., like Jen, I didn't know what the heck it was, so it must be "art" ;-) )...

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo_Pomodoro

Bill

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Posted: Sun July 1, 2007 08:51 PM UTC
Hi Bill
There are more than that Pomodoro's spheres around the world...
The first one it has been not at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (like wrote on wikipedia somewhere else) but in Pesaro (Italy)

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Posted: Sun July 1, 2007 08:52 PM UTC
Spheres have been always a "pallino" for Pomodoro (ghgghghhgh)

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