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Carved wooden post with two round rosettes in front of a church altar
👌🏼 impeccable design. Rather orthodox
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Symptoms of Debauchery: Maria Anne Fitzherbert and Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire (the one with the larger jewellery) at the theatre, 1794
Symptoms of Debauchery: Maria Anne Fitzherbert and Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire (the one with the larger jewellery) at the theatre, 1794. Sometimes intraspecific competition drives one to extreme measures
Monarchies · Mores · Saint Petersburg · Humour
When Catherine II Was Giving Birth to Her Bastard Alexei Bobrinsky, Her Valet Vasily Shkurin Set Fire to His Own House to Distract Peter III, Who Loved to Run to Fires
When Catherine II was giving birth to her bastard Alexei Bobrinsky, her valet Vasily Shkurin set fire to his own house to distract Peter III, who loved to run to fires. Now that is devotion!
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The child's dragoon uniform of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, first President of the French Republic and nephew of Napoleon
The child's dragoon uniform of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, first President of the French Republic and nephew of Napoleon. From the celebrated collection of fine objects assembled by Émile Hermès, now on display at Versailles
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Jacopo da Pontormo, Leda and the Swan
Jacopo da Pontormo, Leda and the Swan. Zeus appeared to the daughter of the Aetolian king and seduced her. Leda gave birth to an egg, from which Helen of Troy hatched. The shell of this egg is said to have been preserved in Sparta
Faith · London · Monarchies · Heritage
Legend of Alfred the Great's Ghost and the Transfer of His Remains to Winchester's New Minster
According to the legend of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, when he died (in the early tenth century), he was buried in Winchester's old cathedral, the Old Minster, but the monks all but lost their wits and began to complain of being troubled by the royal ghost.
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Eve, the Apples and the Serpent Tempter
Eve, the Apples and the Serpent Tempter. Odoardo Fantacchiotti, 1864
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Marble sculpture of a nude young woman against a red wall
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Louis XIV and the fashion for guéridons, stands in the form of Moors in chains
Stands in the form of Moors, for flowers, sculptures and victuals, were brought into fashion by Louis XIV; they are called guéridons (from the French for 'warlike'). Only it is not clear what is warlike about slaves in chains.
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Only by looking at the wax portrait of Louis XIV can one grasp how innocent and charming all other statues and death masks are, even the eyeless ones
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Wax statue of Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne, at Rosenborg Castle
The eyeless wax statue of Prince George of Denmark at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen. George was the husband of Queen Anne of England