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Shops and Shopkeepers in the Arcade of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome, 1914

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Caravaggio's only fresco at the Villa Ludovisi in Rome and its alchemical symbolism

"Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto", the only fresco painted by Caravaggio, is found in the alchemical study of his patron, Cardinal Del Monte, in the hunting lodge of his villa. Today the sixteenth-century building on the highest ground in Rome, the Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, is often called the

A white house with coloured window frames stands behind shrubs on a steeply sloping street under a blue sky with clouds.

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Baldwin Street in Dunedin, the world's steepest street, rises almost 50 metres

Greetings to all those who said geometry would never be of any use to them in their lives. Houses on the steepest street in the world, Baldwin Street in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. Over a length of 130 metres, the street climbs almost 50 metres

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Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi, Palermo

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Versailles, an Evening in the Marble Court

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Château de Carrouges, Normandy, 14th Century

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A Fireplace in the Form of a Lion's Maw in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Villa

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The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum

The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum. Later a mail kukuruznik (a small Soviet biplane) crashed onto this house.

Painting of dark silhouettes of a tower and fortress walls against a sunset sky, a church with a pointed spire behind them and a grassy, stony slope in front.

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Carl Gustav Carus painted a view of the Imperial Castle in Eger in 1824

Imperial Castle, Eger. Carl Gustav Carus, 1824

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The Arch of Constantine in Rome beside the Colosseum, shielded from bombing during the Second World War

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Statue of Robert the Bruce near the Bannockburn battlefield in Scotland with an unusual plinth

The floating statue of Robert the Bruce in Scotland. Not magic, but reality. A quite peerless pedestal, on which, in snowy weather, the horse appears to be quite detached from the ground. Bravo, the Scots! The monument stands by the site of the landmark Battle of Bannockburn. Bravo, the Scots,

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A vegetable garden in the moat of the Tower of London during the Second World War

A vegetable garden in the moat of the Tower of London during the Second World War. The moat was drained on the orders of the Duke of Wellington in the 1840s, to rid the city of the miasma of stagnant water; since then it had simply grown grass, on which