Friday, April 9, 2010

Philanthropy for the Arts

In 2004, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art paid a sum of said to be in excess of $45 million for a small Madonna and Child painted by the medieval Italian master Duccio.



Duccio di Buoninsegna - Madonna and Child (1300)



A dollar a day would feed this mother and child.



Unknown - Mother and Child (now)




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