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A Man's Character Is His Fate
And the biography on the profile is merely the version prepared for PR
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Angel and a nude figure before a dragon above water, medieval miniature
Faith · Art · Books · Monarchies
Simon Marmion’s Miniatures for the “Visions of Tondal”, Made for Margaret of York around 1470
Miniatures from the "Visions of Tundale" (The Visions of the Knight Tondal), a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript created by Simon Marmion around 1470 for Margaret of York, wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. This twelfth-century Irish text tells of a knight named Tondal (Tundale), who
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Memorial to the Victims of the First World War in Paris's 15th Arrondissement Adorned with Dustbins and a Compact Rubbish Dump
The memorial to the victims of the First World War in Paris's 15th arrondissement has been adorned with dustbins and a compact rubbish dump. This is what they fought for
NB! · Faith · Society · Rome · Humour
The Vatican has issued a very strange coin to promote vaccination
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Mother of God, Protect Us
Art · Museums · Observations · Mores · Paris
Paul Poiret's wire turban and the turn-of-the-century fashion for fearing electricity
Incredible, but this feathered ornament by Paul Poiret is in fact made of the finest metal wire. The curator of the Poiret retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs said that for the whole team this extraordinary headdress came as a discovery. But I recalled the amusing fashion of the
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
Exhibitions of Plastov, Filatov and Korovin, art of Kazakhstan and the Thaw in October
A regular round-up of current exhibitions in Moscow: where to go. The final week of the exhibition “Arkady Plastov. Graphic Works. 1930s” at the Open Club gallery: until 14 October 7 October: opening of the exhibition “Masterpieces of Kazakhstan Art” at the New Tretyakov Gallery: until 23 November The
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Sculpture suspended in a stairwell, described as a victim of shopping
A victim of shopping. But there is nothing to be done for her now
Museums · Observations · Society
The Pushkin Museum is closing its branches in Kaliningrad and Vladikavkaz
After 26 Years, the Urals Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg Has Closed. The management of the Pushkin Museum had earlier announced the closure of the Baltic Branch in Kaliningrad and the North Caucasus Branch in Vladikavkaz. The decision is connected with a revision of
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