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Plautilla's Veil in Christian Iconography of the Apostle Paul's Beheading

Paul called out to her: "Greetings, Plautilla, daughter of eternal salvation! Lend me the kerchief with which you cover your head, and go yourself beyond the barrier for the people and wait there until I return to you and give back your alms. I shall bind my eyes with

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Fashion Week: That's All

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A Most Unusual Peter I in an Engraved Portrait from the First Printed Biography of Peter and the Lifetime Edition of "The Present State of the Russian Empire" of 1717

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When Everyone Must Urgently Learn What a Well-Read Young Lady You Are

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A separate ticket for the Mona Lisa room at the Louvre and criticism of museum management

So, let us take a close look at the decision of the Louvre's management to introduce a separate, though in fact additional, ticket for admission to the room with the "Mona Lisa". Judging by my own impressions as a visitor, based on five to seven visits

A small portrait in a gilded frame hangs behind glass on a dark wall. Visitors' heads fill the foreground, and one person photographs it with a phone.

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Mona Lisa behind glass at the Louvre, with a crowd of visitors in front

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Louvre director Laurence des Cars has just declared that the Mona Lisa will be viewable only with the purchase of an additional ticket

The ticket will be purchased as a supplement to the ticket for the main exhibition. "Our proposal is to accept the exceptional status of the Mona Lisa," said des Cars, calling the painting "a blessing for the Louvre". Yet only a few days ago Macron announced

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Giotto depicts the kerchief returned to Plautilla on the back of the Stefaneschi Triptych

The Roman noblewoman Plautilla gave Saint Paul her headscarf so that he would have something to blindfold himself with at his execution. Saint Paul promised to return the scarf after his death. On the reverse of the panel showing the beheading of Paul, in the Stefaneschi Triptych, Giotto depicted the

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Old Man Colombo Has So Much Yet to See

A haloed saint in a brown habit stands on a rock and bends towards a shark on the shore, with other fish visible in the water behind.

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Saint Anthony preaches to the fish in a painting by Arnold Böcklin

Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fishes. Arnold Böcklin The shark is positively moved

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Churchill is credited, among a great many others, with the quip that Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he did not know where he was going, did not know where he was, and did it all at the taxpayer's expense

Churchill is credited, among a great many others, with the quip that Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he did not know where he was going, did not know where he was, and did it all at the taxpayer's expense. The sole point of the remark seems to

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