Chancery italic calligraphy: 'Dolce far niente' written once with a broad-edged pen, crisp thick-and-thin strokes and a gentle slant, black ink on a warm saffron wash running off all four edges. Shown as the artwork itself, flat and square-on edge to edge, the letters inside a margin, no perspective, shadow, table or hands, no other words, no quotation marks. Mehr sehen