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myself, purchased grotesquechildrensbook.com, and uploaded high resolution
pictures there, where you can use your own picture viewer to enlarge and scroll,
rotate and inspect at much closer range than even the original Italians would
have experienced. By the way, there is an interactive 3D version of the Uffizi at
uffizi.org, but they tantalize you with oblique views of the ceiling; you can’t quite
see the details. So, alas, I’ve had to create a poor man’s version myself.

An apology for both the illustrations here, and on
grotesquechildrensbook.com. I wasn’t able to get a square perfect-right-angle
version of the ceilings because only the middle, say, three-quarters fit into my
camera’s longest landscape shot, so I ultimately had to shoot west, center, and
east...angles of each ceiling, and then once I arrived back home and started to
piece together each of the three angles in Photoshop, I found my camera had
slightly bowed and bent the ends of each gallery, thereby making the photos not
line exactly, resulting in some awkward and obvious seams. I cannot apologize
profusely enough for this, and have tried every kind of
skew/distort/warp/perspective/puppetwarp/free transform trick in Photoshop’s
arsenal. But if you get one corner perfectly square, the opposite corner is out of
whack. Fix the opposite corner, and some other section won’t align. It’s
maddening. Perhaps one day if this translation sells a sufficient number of
copies, I’ll be able to pay for a professional set of perfectly square corners, and
I’ll be able to delete this paragraph from the manuscript. If, however, you’re
reading this previous sentence paragraph (and this one), you’ll know their
inclusion means that I have not in fact have sold a sufficient number of copies,
and therefore you’ll need to forgive the seams in my illustrations, or make do with
just the spot illustrations I’ve provided in the physical book. I think I’ve included
all the illustrations necessary to follow and even anticipate the author’s wicked
sense of visual gamesmanship. Happy hunting.

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