Painted sculpture of two acrobats in red trousers balancing on a blue horse with green stars and platform shoes. A window to the garden is beside it, and a stringed instrument on a shelf.

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Sculpture of acrobats on a blue star-patterned horse in an interior

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"American Ecological Horse Jason and Two Equilibrists Ave Maria", silicone sculpture painted in acrylic, Robert Combas, 2024

Manuscript miniature of Mercury in a yellow helmet and tunic driving a chariot drawn by two cockerels, with a caduceus and a round text frame above.

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Mercury in a Chariot Drawn by Cockerels as Patron of Wrestlers in a Manuscript Miniature

Mercury in a chariot drawn by cocks. The cock appears here not only as a companion of solar deities but also as a symbol of combat, through its association with the cockfights so popular in the ancient world. Mercury, among other things, was the patron of wrestling and wrestlers.

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King Charles III plays a carrot in Windsor Castle with the London Vegetable Orchestra at a reception for community music groups and music projects, many of them run by volunteers

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A Satellite Image of London

Black-and-white photograph of a moustached man in a checked jacket, barefoot and without trousers, seated on a stool playing a harmonium.

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Paul Gauguin plays the harmonium without trousers at Alphonse Mucha's in 1893

What to Do of an Evening in Paris? Paul Gauguin, trouserless, plays the harmonium at a house party at Alphonse Mucha's; the year is 1893

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The Emblem of the Russian Craft Board of the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, Established on 26 April 1785

The emblem of the Russian Craft Board of the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, established on 26 April 1785. Tell me, am I the only one who finds it faintly ghoulish that the hairdresser's dummy is rendered as a living body, which looks lopped off and stuck

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A Queue for Dolce & Gabbana at the Grand Palais

A queue for Dolce & Gabbana at the Grand Palais. I am not enough of an admirer to deprive genuine devotees of the chance to make the acquaintance of the golden monograms from the second floor of TsUM, so with a quiet heart I proceeded to the Petit Palais

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"Do you hear it?" "What?" "Happiness, hiding."

Jean Anouilh, Medea

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Spiritual Scene

Spiritual Scene. Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), one of the founders of Italian Futurism, 1925

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Val Kilmer as Philip II in the film "Alexander"

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