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was accompanied by a typewritten text that said "not without a trace of irony". Mariani wrote comments about each person portrayed, which were part of the exhibition. The same show was held at
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may contain private humour, but comes off as a serious work about "the timeless nature of creativity", and stands out among
Mariani's paintings because of its "provocative strain of visual self-aggrandizement". The art historian
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was exhibited as the title work of a solo exhibition at the
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in Rome. Several of the people it portrays appear in a portrait series of
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in a red toga, an allegorical personification of Rome, the German art dealer
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who sits facing away from the viewer, the critic and curator
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