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Incredible, Enchanting Illustrations for the 1989 "Hobbit" by the Wonderful Latvian Artist Laima Eglīte
Incredible, enchanting illustrations for the 1989 "Hobbit" by the wonderful Latvian artist Laima Eglīte. Just look at this curly-haired ginger Bilbo and the kindly Gandalf! A lovely, heartfelt piece of work
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Learning the Orders of Classical Architecture Once and for All: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
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Delaroche’s painting of Napoleon crossing the Saint Bernard Pass and the guide’s reward
Most often Napoleon crossing the Alps is imagined as in the portrait by Jacques-Louis David: a proud horseman astride a white stallion. Delaroche's painting, created more than thirty years after Napoleon's death, shows the then First Consul crossing the Great St Bernard Pass, the shortest
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Vladimir Kravchenko's exhibition on the evolution of beliefs opens at Avtoklaster 19/21
Yesterday I attended an event rather out of keeping with my usual routine, at the Avtoklaster. If you are wondering what on earth the Parnassian Mockingbird has to do with a space for devotees of the motor industry, I answer: firstly, small private museums are often more interesting than old,
Cinema · Books · Observations · Pop Culture
Rights acquired, producers prepare new films based on Tolkien's books
More Tolkien films are on the way. The vast, intricate and dazzling universe devised by Tolkien remains almost entirely unexplored on screen, and the producers mean to put that right. The rights have been bought, and work is under way. Judging by last year's «Rings of Power», with
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How about this for a fossil?
How about this for a fossil? I am sure there is still some 10 per cent of charge left in it
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Death of a King in a Veil, by the Victorian Artist Charlotte Minor Will, 1893
Architecture · Faith · Art · New York
Blake's “The Ancient of Days” and a quotation from the Book of Isaiah above an entrance
Sculptural panel over the entrance of the 60-storey General Electric Building at Rockefeller Center, New York. The image alludes to the enigmatic drawing "The Ancient of Days", completed by the artist and poet William Blake only a couple of days before his death, which shows God imprisoned
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Residential complex in SoHo, New York, built in 2016
No, modern architecture is not always ugly. A residential complex in SoHo, New York, built in 2016
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Theodora, Olga and Kira Kirillovna at the 1956 wedding of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria
Girlfriends Meet over a Glass of Sparkling Wine to Talk About Princes. From left to right: Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, elder sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Princess Olga of Yugoslavia; and the Prussian Princess Kira Kirillovna Romanova, Princess of the Blood Imperial. The photograph was taken