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The Meeting of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. Scenes from the Life of Joachim: the Meeting at the Golden Gate, 1304–1306. Giotto di Bondone. The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, built on the site of an ancient Roman arena, houses the first cycle of frescoes indisputably attributed to Giotto. In
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What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400? I think they are magnificent
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At the Antiques Salon I rather fell for this set of children's furniture. It looks exactly like a proper "grown-up" Empire-style study, only everything is made to a reduced scale: note the proportion of the doll to the back of the sofa. The sideboards
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How does the flow of information affect our lives? Veronika Kandaurova asked me about my attitude to it for a piece in «RBC Style». In short: I have never been dependent on the existing formats of media distribution on the internet, and I advise no one else to be. On
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Christmas Eve at Woolworths in London, 1955. Do you remember the time when shops were crowded and noisy, and when going shopping was a serious undertaking in its own right? No snowdrift could daunt you when you knew that any minute now you and Mum would queue at the department
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George Sprod, 1956
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Richard Feynman
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Seated Nude, Nicolas de Staël, 1954. Currently at auction at Sotheby's