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Alexandr Radayev
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A Satellite Image of London
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Paul Gauguin plays the harmonium without trousers at Alphonse Mucha's in 1893
What to Do of an Evening in Paris? Paul Gauguin, trouserless, plays the harmonium at a house party at Alphonse Mucha's; the year is 1893
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The Emblem of the Russian Craft Board of the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, Established on 26 April 1785
The emblem of the Russian Craft Board of the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, established on 26 April 1785. Tell me, am I the only one who finds it faintly ghoulish that the hairdresser's dummy is rendered as a living body, which looks lopped off and stuck
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A Queue for Dolce & Gabbana at the Grand Palais
A queue for Dolce & Gabbana at the Grand Palais. I am not enough of an admirer to deprive genuine devotees of the chance to make the acquaintance of the golden monograms from the second floor of TsUM, so with a quiet heart I proceeded to the Petit Palais
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"Do you hear it?" "What?" "Happiness, hiding."
Jean Anouilh, Medea
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Spiritual Scene
Spiritual Scene. Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), one of the founders of Italian Futurism, 1925
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Val Kilmer as Philip II in the film "Alexander"
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An Everyday Sight of the Eighteenth Century: A Shoe Seller with Her Samples
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In the Middle Ages the rabbit was linked with virgin conception
In the Middle Ages the rabbit was linked with virgin conception. It is no accident that the rabbit appears in the iconography of the Virgin, for instance beside Titian's Madonna. It was believed that a doe rabbit could produce young without mating with a male; this notion in
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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things
For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth these three: faith, hope, charity; but the greatest of these is charity. The First Epistle of Paul the
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White horses among clouds and sunrays in a painting with a golden arch
White-maned horses, it turns out. Cloooouds!