Art · Museums · Paris
The Cheese Seller, Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)
Collection of the Louvre
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Collection of the Louvre
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You will come to the well-built temple of Hades. On the right (on the left) is a spring flowing from the lake of oblivion, Lethe; white waters gush forth there, and beside it stands a white cypress. Do not go near that spring, not even close. Here the descending
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The cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, where the Tsar's family was shot on the night of 16–17 July 1918. The house was demolished on 16 and 17 September 1977
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Sophia Loren and her younger sister Maria Scicolone, actress and singer. Sophia is now 89 years old, Maria 86
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A drinking fountain in Paris in the 20th century and in the 21st. From which century would you care to take a sip?
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Clotilde Forgeot d'Arc in the role of her famous kinswoman, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, at a festival in her honour. Clotilde plays Joan of Arc in historical reconstructions of battles. The young woman descends from Joan of Arc's elder brother Pierre, who fought
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Naples, photograph by Ferdinando Scianna, 1997. On the wall is a work by the painter Ernest Pignon-Ernest