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In 1880 Rodin was commissioned to make the entrance portal for the Museum of Decorative Arts, planned for Paris on the site of the burnt-out Palais d'Orsay. But Rodin failed to finish the work on time and returned the advance. The museum, however, had no need of
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A creepy fellow I would not let within several kilometres of my children. Let alone my wife. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, her five children, their governess and Rasputin. Where was Nicholas II looking?
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The Blue Room, 1923. Suzanne Valadon. Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) was the first woman admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She fed her cats caviar, kept a goat in her studio, ate her failed paintings, and married a friend of her son.
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One day in childhood there comes a moment when you play in the yard with your friends for the last time, until you are called indoors, but you do not yet know it. Look closely at this photograph. The mood is much the same: the wedding of Princess Victoria Louise
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And I, what of it? I simply rejoice at Russia's financial triumphs of 1891. "The key to the financial position of Europe lies in the Russian Ministry of Finance... The Russian Ministry of Finance serves Europe as a brokers' bank... Russian influence on the money markets
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Decorative elements of the Escalier Mollien in the Louvre before and after the removal of 120 years of grime, dust and soot. And are you still quite certain that your ceiling was grey to begin with?
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