William Hogarth's 1742 painting "The Graham Children" is famous for its sad symbolism

William Hogarth's 1742 painting "The Graham Children" is famous for its sad symbolism. The youngest child, little Thomas, died before work on the picture was finished. There is a version according to which the artist conceived the canvas as a memorial to the dead child. His pram is adorned with a wooden bird that will never take flight. A living bird is locked in a cage, its life threatened by a predatory cat. At the infant's feet lie crossed carnations, and above his head is placed a clock with an angel of death

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

William Hogarth's 1742 painting "The Graham Children" is famous for its sad symbolism

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s