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Three portraits of Marie Antoinette by a single artist, the Swedish painter Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

Marie Antoinette sat for Wertmüller in 1785-88. He worked on commission from the Swedish king Gustav III. Besides the portrait of the queen with her children, Antoinette appeared on several other canvases. The most intimate proved to be precisely the first version. This one, by all appearances, was never

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In the future you will be able to carry a telephone in your pocket!

April 1963

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In the Life of Andrew the Fool for Christ, known in Slavonic since the eleventh century

In the Life of Andrew the Fool for Christ, known in Slavonic since the 11th century and set in Byzantium in the 10th, we find these words: "In the last days the Lord God shall raise up a tsar from poverty.. he shall raise up the churches of the

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The marble staircase of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is called the pink staircase, after the colour of the marble with which it is faced

The marble staircase of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is called the pink staircase, after the colour of the marble with which it is faced. The variegated marbles used to finish the staircase were brought from Hungary, and the stone was purchased by the

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David by Andrea del Verrocchio and David by Donatello

David by Andrea del Verrocchio and David by Donatello. Casts of the fifteenth-century bronze originals. The Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum

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According to Sony and Apple, Ridley Scott's historical epic "Napoleon", starring Joaquin Phoenix, will reach screens on 22 November 2023

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Heroic Bust of Victor Hugo by Auguste Rodin, Marble, 1902

Black-and-white photograph of a man and a woman in a room beside a large white bird-shaped bed, with a dog standing on a chair.

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François-Xavier Lalanne made a bed with a seagull-shaped canopy in the 1960s

A bed with a seagull-shaped canopy. Work by François-Xavier Lalanne, 1960s

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"Only don't copy it word for word." "All right."

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Mikhail Romm recalled how, during the filming of his 1934 debut, "Boule de Suif", after the story by Guy de Maupassant (itself, incidentally, a debut), two acknowledged beauties of the day came into collision on set: Galina Sergeyeva, who played the lead…

The young actresses were both 20 years old, and both were fresh and lovely. But it so happened that all the men of the film crew showed an interest in only one of the two girls: Okunevskaya captured the whole of the male attention. And this upset Sergeyeva greatly, the

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Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle at the Armistice Day Parade on 11 November 1944, Champs-Élysées, Paris

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Alexandr Radayev