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What it is important for you to know here, in the Spanish Chapel, is only this much that follows: -- There were certainly two persons once called Gaddi, both rather stupid in religious matters and high art; but one of them, I don't know or care which, a true decorative painter of the most exquisite skill, a perfect architect, an amiable person, and a great lover of pretty domestic life.
Mornings in Florence John Ruskin 1859
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The virtue and husbandry of Taddeo Gaddi afford an excellent illustration of the advantages and honours accruing from excellence in a noble art, for by his industry and labour he provided a considerable property, and left the affairs of his family so ordered that when he passed to the other life his sons Agnolo and Giovanni were enabled without difficulty to lay the foundations of the vast wealth and distinction of the house of Gaddi, which is now amongst the noblest in Florence and of high repute in all Christendom.
The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Giorgio Vasari 1542
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Or these women from the Gaddi tribe in Northern India, at bottom, climbing a mountain to reach a shrine.
Boing Boing 2008
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The Hindu and Buddhist tribes of the state which include Gaddi, Sippi, Changpa and Brockpa have also postponed their migeration due the situation arises out of natural circumstances, Rahi said.
J&K Gujjars suspends their seasonal migrations by one month 2009
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Next to him, a young Gaddi man from a village nearby.
Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006
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* Nonprofit offers vaccines to Gaddi villages in India
Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006
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Image: Inside a Gaddi family's barn on a hilltop, Phuntsok Dorjee (left) and another technician (whose name I don't have) set a solar-powered battery into place.
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Link to archived radio segment, and here's a direct link to photo slideshow with an original composition by Gaddi folksinger Sunil Rana (Flash with sound)
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Top -- Gaddi women singing prayers as they climb a rocky path to the shrine in Kanyara village, Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Part one of the four-part radio series is The Gaddi People of Dharamsala.
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