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Alexandr Radayev
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It seems Bonaparte himself was not as good at being Napoleon as Marlon Brando managed to be in 1954
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Young George Frideric Handel secretly taught himself the harpsichord in an attic
This is exactly what you were thinking! Papa with a lantern and the entire family burst into the attic to catch their son at a shameful occupation. Little Georg Friedrich Handel was strictly forbidden to study music. The four-year-old child found an abandoned old harpsichord and taught himself
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Jacopo Fantoni’s Marble Risen Christ of 1520 with Unusual Facial Features
What unexpected features and expression the Risen Christ of Jacopo Fantoni, 1520, possesses. And he looks far older than in the traditional iconography
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Camilla Parker Bowles's Favourite Biscuit
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Stanislavsky told Mikhoels that a bird's flight begins with breathing
When Stanislavsky asked Mikhoels what, in his opinion, the flight of a bird begins with, he answered: the bird first spreads its wings. Stanislavsky objected: nothing of the sort, for flight a bird needs, above all, free breathing, and so it fills its chest with air, becomes proud, and begins
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Sculptor Nemon persuaded Freud to sit for him in Vienna and London
Oscar Nemon at Work on His Sculpted Portraits of Sigmund Freud. In 1920, when Nemon was a very young sculptor and an entranced admirer of the celebrated psychologist's work, he approached Freud through one of his pupils with a request to be allowed to model him, but Freud
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Spielberg Is Making a Miniseries About Napoleon
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Brunhilda the cat wishes you a good morning and reminds you that all of life is a battle; the main thing is not to sleep through it
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Take a porcelain cup, fit it with a silver stem, and you have a goblet
Take a porcelain cup, fit it with a silver stem, and you have a goblet. So thought some craftsman of the Elizabethan age. Four hundred and some years on, this hybrid goblet of the Ming Dynasty and Elizabeth I has fetched a tidy sum
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French Art Nouveau lady's bedroom interior and curtains resembling Soviet ones
Looking through sketches of French Art Nouveau interiors, I came upon some curious curtains that might easily have belonged to an old Soviet interior. At any rate, I keep at home valances and throws from the early twentieth century with almost exactly the same pattern
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Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Hunting with Hounds
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, hunting with hounds. Louis-Auguste Brun, 1783. The painting is on display on the ground floor of Versailles. It is currently being shown at the exhibition of the Rothschild collection; last year it featured in the exhibition The King's Animals.