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Citrons in Zurbarán's 1633 still life, on show at the Prado until 30 June
My grandmother loved "Tsitron" sweets, which had a bright lemon flavour and a pretty wrapper with lemons on it. But it never occurred to me that the citron is a fruit in its own right; I took it for just another name for the lemon. It was thanks
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Gilded equestrian statue of Joan of Arc at Place des Pyramides, Paris
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Statue of Joan of Arc in gilded bronze in the Place des Pyramides in Paris
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The 390 obelisk of Theodosius the Great in Istanbul and the inscription on its pedestal
The Obelisk of Theodosius in Constantinople in 1855 and in 2024. The inscription on the pedestal, in several languages, tells the story of the obelisk raised under Theodosius the Great, Emperor of the Roman Empire, in 390: "This is a four-sided column that lay upon the ground, whose
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Four men in ancient Persian costumes before a relief of an enthroned figure
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The Best So Far on the Disappearance of Kate Middleton
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Delphi, once the centre of the entire Greek world
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Vicente Segrelles depicts a treasure finder and the ghost of the hoard's owner
The owner is, after all, not the one who found it, but the one who left it. When gazing on the treasures of antiquity, it would be as well not to forget their true proprietors. Illustration: the Spanish artist Vicente Segrelles.
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Celebrated Irish scientists: the ancient Irish were dark-skinned with blue eyes
Celebrated Irish scientists: the ancient Irish were dark-skinned with blue eyes. Shall we carry on, or is anyone ready to get off?
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This column of green marble in the corner of the stone wall of the Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul is mentioned in the text of the famous seventeenth-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi. Çelebi writes that the architect Sinan set it up before building the
This column of green marble in the corner of the stone wall of the Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul is mentioned in the text of the famous seventeenth-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi. Çelebi writes that the architect Sinan set it up before building the mosque exactly in the centre of
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Dürer’s engraving “Nemesis” with realistic proportions of the human body
This "Nemesis" is one of the first engravings with such realistic proportions of the human body. Dürer is believed to have worked on it with extraordinary care, using compasses and calculating instruments in order to depict the human body not as an ideal, but as it is in