Leonardo's Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa of one of his pupils, probably Francesco Melzi (1493-1573) or Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, known by the nickname Salaì (1480-1524)

Leonardo's Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa of one of his pupils, probably Francesco Melzi (1493-1573) or Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, known by the nickname Salaì (1480-1524). Both paintings were executed at roughly the same time. The first, by da Vinci, hangs in the Louvre. The second, by Leonardo's pupil, is in the Prado Museum

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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

Leonardo's Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa of one of his pupils, probably Francesco Melzi (1493-1573) or Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, known by the nickname Salaì (1480-1524)

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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

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