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Pieter de Hooch, the painting “A Dutch Courtyard”, painted in 1658–1660
Mm, a light unfiltered! Pieter de Hooch, 1658-1660. A Dutch Courtyard
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Chapel on Rue Barre in Paris turned into a confectionery in 1917
Did Someone Send for Elena the Flying? The year is 1917, the First World War at its height. In France, empty churches are turned into workshops, parish buildings into homes, and chapels are fitted out as kitchens. The chapel on the rue des Barres in the Fourth Arrondissement of Paris
Observations · Society · People
If you give me six hours to chop down a tree, I shall spend the first five sharpening my axe
Abraham Lincoln
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Exactly 9 years ago Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope and took the name Francis I
Exactly 9 years ago Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope and took the name Francis I. Bergoglio became the first Jesuit Pope, the first Pope from the New World and the first in twelve centuries not from Europe. What I mean to say is, I hope not the last
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Boyarynya, Konstantin Makovsky
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Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon on the set of Ridley Scott's new film
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Frescoed and gilded vault of a Baroque church in shafts of light
Faith · Reportage · Rome
Pope Francis I in the Jesuit Mother Church of Il Gesù in Rome at the service marking the 400th anniversary of the canonisation of St
Pope Francis I in the Jesuit Mother Church of Il Gesù in Rome at the service marking the 400th anniversary of the canonisation of St Teresa of Ávila, Ignatius of Loyola, Isidore the Farmer, Francis Xavier and Philip Neri. This time the Pope does not preside at the Mass: the
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Doves in a detail of Louis Jean-François Lagrenée’s “Mars and Venus”, 1770
Louis Jean-François Lagrenée, Allegory of Peace, detail of the painting Mars and Venus. 1770
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Map of the Origin of the Name of the Colour Red in Different Countries
Cinema · New York · Pop Culture
The Young and Beautiful Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro
The young and beautiful Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro. The musical New York, New York, 1977. Today Liza turns 76. De Niro is now 78.
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A Centaur Complains to Saint Anthony
A centaur complains to Saint Anthony. About the monkey, presumably. From a fifteenth-century manuscript on fantastic beasts