They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.

Del Sarto’s “Madonna of the Steps,” too fragile to travel from the Prado, appears here in the form of sketched details: images of piled drapery, of nude bodies (studio staff was no doubt recruited to pose), of detached feet and hands (including a tarantulalike set of fingers) and of a sweet child’s head, with another half-visible, like a mirage, behind it.

He got caught double-dipping by billing the government directly as well as the primary contractor.

All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness—…