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Still life with cherries and strawberries. And also with bread, wines and olives. Of living nature, the picture admits a dragonfly and a butterfly. By the Southern Netherlandish Baroque painter Osias Beert
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Two underground tunnels dating from 1800 have been discovered in St Mark's Square in Venice during waterproofing works. The tunnels now uncovered are used to drain floodwaters
Faith · Art
Saint Zosimas of Palestine Gives Saint Mary of Egypt Communion of the Holy Mysteries. An icon by the Cretan painter Emmanuel Lambardos, 1603.
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The Kiss. Christopher Bisschop (1828-1904)
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Art · Monarchies · Museums · Rome
The Prada Foundation in Milan has put on show a re-created copy of the 13-metre marble statue of the Emperor Constantine, dating from the 4th century, of which 20 fragments survive to this day, kept in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The head, right arm, right knee, right
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In 1874 Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the most celebrated women photographers and portraitists of the nineteenth century, created a series of allegorical portraits of the heroes of the Arthurian legends to illustrate "Idylls of the King", a collection of poems on the legends of King Arthur by
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NB! · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Humour
Nota bene on the doors of a Moscow church. Words of the saints, for the attention of those fond of a chat within the walls of the church