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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Tries On the Costume of a Pharaoh of Egypt, 1894
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British Actor Michael Gambon, Who Played Dumbledore, Has Died
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Man in a uniform cap glancing sideways at a painting of a nude in a shop window
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In 1948 Robert Doisneau secretly photographed passers-by at a gallery window with a nude painting
In 1948, the French photographer Robert Doisneau made a series of secret photographs of people who had caught sight of a nineteenth-century painting of a female nude in the window of an art gallery. Doisneau hid his Rolleiflex behind an antique chair, so that he was nowhere to be
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The death of John Kipling in 1915 and his father Rudyard Kipling's poem of 1916
A medical board refused 16-year-old John Kipling conscription for the front in the First World War because of short-sightedness. The youth was burning to serve, as earlier he had dreamed of entering a military school. His influential father, by then the world-famous writer Rudyard Kipling, used
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The celebrated Baroque tufa portal in the Sicilian town of Mazara del Vallo
This is the entrance to the Jesuit College and the adjoining church of Sant'Ignazio, of which only the façade survives. The historic complex of buildings in Piazza Plebiscito is one of the principal sights of the city of Mazara del Vallo.
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Artist Vladimir Chernyshev to install a sundial in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow
A vast sundial is to be installed in the inner courtyard of the Museum of Moscow by the weekend. The gnomon is of metal, the dial of tarmac. The author of the installation is the artist Vladimir Chernyshev. I shall not venture into the finer points of what this piece
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Art Nouveau mural above a doorway with a Czech inscription on freedom and concord
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Alphonse Mucha designed the Lord Mayor's Hall in Prague's Municipal House in 1912
In 1912 Alphonse Mucha was asked to decorate the Municipal House in Prague, with its concert hall, gallery, restaurants and several drawing rooms. The artist produced murals, decoration, textiles and sketches for furniture for one of the rooms, the Lord Mayor's Hall.
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Modigliani in His Studio in 1915
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The post's author sees a footballer in a garden with a pond and a stone platform
I don't know whom you see, but I see some footballer. His name, naturally, escapes me