Afterall this is another dose of stress on top of the Euro Zone farce and the ongoing Jasmine Revolution across the Arab oil rich world.

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Delacroix used the traditional genre of flower painting throughout his career to examine form and colour, and both his small studies of delicate irises and jasmine as well as large oil paintings of carefully composed floral still lives are on show.

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