Bob Dylan keeps his hood on during a meeting with the Pope
Bob Dylan chose not to take off his hood at his meeting with the Pope.
Then again, the pontiff is wearing a headdress too
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Oswald Spengler on modern man's defencelessness against spiritual artillery
Today we are so defenceless against the effects of this spiritual artillery that scarcely anyone is able to win that inner detachment which is necessary to grasp the full monstrousness of the spectacle Oswald Spengler on what is still our own day
"The Embrace" by Egon Schiele
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The Conservatory Years of Sergei Prokofiev, from Admission at 13 to Graduation in 1914
At 13, Sergei Prokofiev became a student of the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire – and it was a real breakthrough! His talent was noticed by Alexander Glazunov, who himself suggested that the boy should enter the Conservatoire at once. And what proved decisive at the entrance examinations was the opinion of Nikolai
Vigée Le Brun's portrait of her daughter Julie to be sold at Christie's in New York in 2027
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, portrait of the artist's daughter, Julie, as a bather In 2027 this painting will be offered at auction at Christie's in New York