Mores · People · Humour
Former Governor of Texas Sam Houston, who gave his name to the city of Houston, in a jaguar-skin waistcoat. Captain Samuel Richardson of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment, Confederate Army, in trousers of jaguar skin. But these are mild fashions compared with the habits of the Texas gunman John
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Vase with chimeras in the park of Versailles, Parterre du Midi, 1665. During the Revolution, the imperial lilies on the coat of arms were replaced with a sword
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Art · Observations
An Evening Dialogue of the Arts: Two Works of Art Made from a Mercedes Car Body. The first is a sculpture by César Baldaccini, or simply César, created by the method of compression: the French sculptor simply placed a car from a scrapyard into a hydraulic press, and then signed
Archive · Art · Books · Museums
In the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille hangs Horace Vernet's "Cholera on Board the Melpomene", painted in 1835 for the Board of Health, which had been assembling a collection on the theme of epidemics for its council chamber since the 1730s. The events aboard the
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The Colosseum in cross-section. I adore diagrams like this
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Cinema · Monarchies · People
The Only Frenchman Cast in Ridley Scott's Epic "Napoleon" Plays the Russian Tsar. The role of Alexander I is played by the 24-year-old Édouard Philipponna
Art · Books · Observations
A collection of poems by Bulat Okudzhava in German translation, with colour silkscreen prints by the artist Maurice Goetze. The book was published in 1991 in an edition of only 100 copies