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Alexander of Macedon and Darius III at the Battle of Issus in Altdorfer's Painting
The Battle of Issus between the armies of Alexander the Great and the Persian King Darius III. A painting by Albrecht Altdorfer of the early sixteenth century. Alexander won this battle, which opened the way for his further conquests. The inscription on the tablet at the top of the painting
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Most peculiar. The former husband of England's Queen Consort Camilla, the retired Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, was recently the Queen's official representative at the funeral of a distant relation of the royal family, John Bowes-Lyon, a second cousin of the Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
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Children's boots with gold embroidery like these were one of the most popular Bukharan export goods of the nineteenth century
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Girls with two Cartier bracelets be like
Faith · Art · Museums
Unknown 17th-century French painter known as the Master of Processions
The Flagellation of Christ, a painting by the Master of the Processions, sold only recently for more than 160,000 euros. The Master of the Processions is the conventional name of an unknown French painter of the mid-seventeenth century. At various times some of this artist's pictures
Faith · Art
Giotto depicts Sylvester driving demons out of Arezzo at the request of Francis
The Expulsion of the Demons from Arezzo. Scenes from the Life of Saint Francis. Giotto (1266-1337). The life of Francis of Assisi contains a story of how, on approaching the city of Arezzo, whose inhabitants were gripped by mutual enmity, Francis saw the walls and buildings of the city
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Greetings from the Emirate of Bukhara
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Bukhara Is Beautiful 💜💙
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Tatyana Tolstaya and the Boiled Mushrooms
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I don't know about you, but to my mind the glass teapot with a plunger is one of the least aesthetic and most senseless objects of modern domestic life
I don't know about you, but to my mind the glass teapot with a plunger is one of the least aesthetic and most senseless objects of modern domestic life. A herald of the plastic-and-steel age, borne aloft on the wings of overconsumption
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A View of the Grand Canal in Venice, 1920
Giuseppe “Beppe” Ciardi (1875-1932)