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Detail seen from one side

The two pictures on this page are details of the box opposite. In the center niche (above, seen from one side), Cornell has glued a print of a Renaissance portrait. The ceiling over the boy is papered with numerals from a lotto game, while the pillars have been papered with architectural plans. The black lines painted on the glass, which cross the boy's face like the lines on a gunsight, relate in form to the architectural line drawings, and posssibly allude to Renaissance perspective. On the side walls, numbers are painted on a map of Florence and rise in ascending order like the scores on a pinball machine. In the corner detail at right, a tilted mirror, reflecting a wooden cube, shows the boy's face peering back at the viewer.

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Detail of lower left corner