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Alexandr Radayev
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The Natural History Museum of Venice grew out of the collection of the Venetian patrician Teodoro Correr, who in 1830 bequeathed his colossal cabinet-of-curiosities-style holdings to the city, together with substantial funds to found a public museum and…
The Natural History Museum of Venice grew out of the collection of the Venetian patrician Teodoro Correr, who in 1830 bequeathed his colossal cabinet-of-curiosities-style holdings to the city, together with substantial funds to found a public museum and to maintain it thereafter in the three halls and
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The French Republic of de Gaulle (in the guise of Marianne) Casts an Eye on Communism
Sixty years before the famous meme appeared
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When Churchill was asked why he painted only landscapes, he replied: because a tree has never come to me to complain that it came out looking nothing like itself
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Work in Full Swing
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry furious over new scene from Family Guy in which they sit by a swimming pool complaining that they must do yet another sponsored social media post for $250,000
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Is Everyone Ready for the Third Season of The White Lotus Without Tanya McQuoid?
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A familiar face in the painting "The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin" by Jan van Eyck, 1435
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Pushkin on the body of the murdered Griboyedov taken to Tiflis and their last meeting
"Two oxen, yoked to a cart, were climbing a steep road. Several Georgians accompanied the cart. "Where are you from?" I asked them. "From Tehran." "What are you carrying?" "Griboyedov." It was the body of the murdered Griboyedov, which was being
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Griboyedov tells Pushkin about the Persians on the eve of his last journey to Tehran
You do not yet know these people: you will see that it will come to knives. Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, on the Persians, on the eve of his last journey to Tehran
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Large sheets with black images laid out on the steps of Sacré-Cœur
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest and his socially engaged street art in France since the 1960s
Works by the French artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest, a member, incidentally, of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts in the painting section. Pignon-Ernest is considered one of the founders of street art in France. Since the 1960s he has placed his works in the urban setting, among small architectural