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Tiny Little Jars Contain Big, Bold Colors In The Forbes Pigment Collection

Conservators, preservationists, artists, art historians and serious art fans can consult the Harvard Art Museums' collection to analyze and imitate the colors that painters used many centuries ago.
Looks like your spice rack on steroids? Nope. Although the colors <em>are </em>a feast for the eyes.

Do you have a shrine? Religious, maybe, but not necessarily. A place where you are filled with awe?

I have several. One (you won't believe this) was the former Liberace Museum. Liberace, who died in 1987, was a fabulous musician with a collection of pianos, including one that once belonged to George Gershwin. (You must take a moment to watch this of the understated, dignified Wladziu Valentino Liberace playing Gershwin on another piano in his collection.)

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