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My name is Bruce Sutherland, and I put in the data in the "notes" section as well as the data in end note 9. This is a self-serving comment, but I see nothing wrong with what I have done. If I did not do it, who would? The article in Source: Notes in the History of Art, is about 2,000 words long and discusses two of Grimani's cameos, not just the cameo Augustus but also a cameo of Philoctetes. These two cameos were both owned by Cardinal Domenico Grimani and seem to have inspired several figures on the Sistine ceiling. The cameo Augustus seems to have inspired the ignudo to the upper right of the Erythraean sibyl. The editor of Burlington refused to publish because I could not prove the similarities between the cameos and the figures by Michelangelo were not just coincidental. I still cannot. An editor of a Swiss journal said what I was saying was not a "testable hypothesis". True, but art history is not an exact science as chemistry is. Perhaps the world's leading authority on ancient Greco-Roman cameos is Sir Professor John Boardman, and he agrees with my article. Your comments, please...Bsutherlandb (talk) 02:49, 9 April 2013 (UTC)