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Bourdelle’s “Hannibal’s First Victory” in Montauban and the Eagle in Flaubert’s “Salammbô”

In French Montauban there is an Ingres-Bourdelle Museum, named for the city's two most famous sons. For a hundred and fifty years the museum bore only the name of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whose collection formed the basis of its holdings; now Bourdelle, the second distinguished native

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The State Coat of Arms: the Double-Headed Eagle and the State Seal in the Manuscript "Titulyarnik" or "The Great Sovereign's Book" of 1672

The State Coat of Arms: the Double-Headed Eagle and the State Seal in the manuscript book "Titulyarnik" or "The Great Sovereign's Book" of 1672. Pen, watercolours, shell gold. Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. In this historical and diplomatic reference work, presented to

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Alexander the Great Spared Mount Athos from the Plan of His Architect Dinocrates, Who Wished to Turn It into a Colossal Statue of Alexander Holding a City and a Bowl Pouring Water into the Sea

Alexander the Great spared Mount Athos from the plan of his architect Dinocrates, who wished to turn it into a colossal statue of Alexander holding a city and a bowl pouring water into the sea. By Alexander's will, Dinocrates left Athos untouched and designed Alexandria instead

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The English astrologer William Lilly predicted the fall of the Stuart dynasty, and the prediction came true seventy years later

Archaeology · Faith · Museums · New York

Isis Nursing Horus

Ceramic figurine of the Ptolemaic period. Metropolitan Museum. Figurines of this type appear long before the Ptolemaic era. In fact, the iconography of the "Madonna and Child" took shape in Egypt 2,000 years before the birth of Jesus

Faith · Observations · Paris · Pop Culture

Author compares Olympic closing ceremony with Assassin's Creed and the opening ceremony

The dreadful symbolism of the closing of the Olympic diabolerie, which looks like a cult ritual disguised as sketches from Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft, after all, is a French company), is on the whole in perfect harmony with the Horseman of the Apocalypse and the other occult scenes of

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A friend will torment you, an enemy will teach you

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Mosaic with the face of the Gorgon Medusa from the ancient odeon in the ancient city of Kibyra, in Turkey's Burdur Province

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Salvador Dalí, 1949

Art · London · Museums

Gondola cup with a figure personifying Spring, made at Fontainebleau, circa 1620-1625

Gondola cup with a figure personifying Spring, made at Fontainebleau, circa 1620-1625. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. And John Everett Millais's "Ophelia"

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Jean Daret's trompe-l'œil at the Hôtel de Châteaurenard and the visit of Louis XIV

Louis XIV was delighted with the decor of the Hôtel de Châteaurenard in Aix-en-Provence. The decoration of the central staircase is executed in the genre of trompe-l'œil, or "fool the eye", popular since antiquity. Trompe-l'œil is when you see something

Globe of the Earth on a black background, almost entirely covered by the dark blue water of the Pacific Ocean, with New Zealand at lower left.

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The Earth seen from the Pacific Ocean, with almost no land in view

Our planet from a rare angle. Few people know it, but this is how the Earth looks from the side of the Pacific Ocean

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