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Most peculiar. The former husband of England's Queen Consort Camilla, the retired Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, was recently the Queen's official representative at the funeral of a distant relation of the royal family, John Bowes-Lyon, a second cousin of the Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
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The Flagellation of Christ, a painting by the Master of the Processions, sold only recently for more than 160,000 euros. The Master of the Processions is the conventional name of an unknown French painter of the mid-seventeenth century. At various times some of this artist's pictures
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The Expulsion of the Demons from Arezzo. Scenes from the Life of Saint Francis. Giotto (1266-1337). The life of Francis of Assisi contains a story of how, on approaching the city of Arezzo, whose inhabitants were gripped by mutual enmity, Francis saw the walls and buildings of the city
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I don't know about you, but to my mind the glass teapot with a plunger is one of the least aesthetic and most senseless objects of modern domestic life. A herald of the plastic-and-steel age, borne aloft on the wings of overconsumption
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Giuseppe “Beppe” Ciardi (1875-1932)
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A Harlot's Progress. William Hogarth's series of engravings of 1731-1732 describes the typical path of a girl of free morals in the eighteenth century, from procuress to grave, and usually not a very long one at that: 1. Ensnared by the procuress 2. Quarrel with