It is an additionally precious work, too, for it surely reveals Velázquez's one true friend at the Spanish court – the chamberlain Nieto, that dark figure silhouetted in the doorway at the back of Las Meninas, hovering between this world and the next.
I hope, at the very least, that predatory eyes won't force her to spend a chunk of precious work time every day being packaged into an impenetrable, invulnerable suit of professionally styled armor.
That economic opportunities are scarce in Belfast's working-class regions is beyond dispute (almost every young person I spoke with was out of work; a precious few worked in call centers), but these politically involved and mostly unemployed kids would forgo higher education for the higher calling of protecting the tribe.
The repair helped hold together this precious work, a 1522 first edition of Martin Luther's German translation of the New Testament, but now the damage needs to be undone.
The Frick Collection borrows a few precious works of art each year, and from them rich historical tales emerge.
In that precious work, only a limited number of starch synthesis enzymes were detected in developing wheat grains using the traditional 2-DE method [ 10, 17].
While there are a few services available in the marketplace aiming to bridge the demand for developers with entrepreneurs, there is an inherent lack of satisfaction associated with outsourcing precious work to overseas developers.
The cuirass is laid on the floor, and the plumed helmet is set on a table draped in gold-brocaded velvet, like some precious work of art.
The British Libary were among those outbid by an anonymous overseas buyer, who bid £220,000 for the precious work.
The most precious work of art in the world is still worth less than a single human life.
