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A Child's Chair of the Seventeenth Century

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Mood: a fat, self-satisfied seventeenth-century child greedily devouring a sponge biscuit, seated in rich garments on a high-backed children's throne

Mood: a fat, self-satisfied seventeenth-century child greedily devouring a sponge biscuit, seated in rich garments on a high-backed children's throne. A painting by John Ruskin's great-great-grandfather Farley Ruskin, 1620

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Here Hubert de Givenchy Is 21

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What can one say: Givenchy's style and legacy remain relevant today

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Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018) and Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993)

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The Seal of Paul II on One of His Documents

Two grooms in yellow breeches hold a white and a bay horse, a red macaw and a white cockatoo perch on branches, a spotted dog sits below, a castle in the distance.

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Two horses, two grooms, two parrots and a dog in a painting by Roelant Savery

Two splendidly maned horses, two dwarf grooms in lemon-yellow breeches, two parrots, a scarlet macaw and a Moluccan cockatoo, and one little dog. Thank you, Roelant Savery

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Pope Paul II, born Pietro Barbo, his collections, nickname and death at 54

Pope Pietro Barbo wished to take the name Formosus II, from formosus, "beautiful, handsome". On the advice of older friends, however, he chose the more neutral Paul II. Long before his papacy Pietro Barbo had earned the nickname Our Lady of Mercy (Maria Pietissima) for weeping when he

Full-length portrait of a woman in a black dress with a white lace collar holding a black feather fan, in a gold frame.

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Feather fan in a portrait of a lady in a black dress resembles a ping-pong bat

A true lady of the ping-pong club. Just joking, it is a fan, of course

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Mary Read and Anne Bonny, two women who became pirates in men's clothing

The Celebrated Female Pirates of the Eighteenth Century: Mary Read, Known as Mark Read, and Anne Bonny Met at Sea. Mary Read was raised as a boy from birth: her mother concealed the illegitimate daughter from the family of her late husband by passing her off as a son who

Three gilded boxes with engraved ornament on red velvet in a museum display case, with a tray and a number 10 label nearby.

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Travelling toilet set in gilded silver, Augsburg, 1756

Travelling toilet set, 1756, Augsburg. The German masters of the eighteenth century still remained leaders in the production of gilded silver

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