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The Illumination of the Eiffel Tower in 1920

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History of the Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, from Mill to Dance Hall

The celebrated Montmartre windmill Moulin de la Galette, built in 1622 and immortalised in paintings by Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, stands to this day. Moulin is French for "mill". To be sure, if the nineteenth-century owners of the milling complex are to be believed, a

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Art Nouveau shop front in the French town of Douai, designed by Albert Peupé in 1906

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Joachim and Anna meeting at the Golden Gate in Giotto's fresco in Padua

The Meeting of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. Scenes from the Life of Joachim: the Meeting at the Golden Gate, 1304–1306. Giotto di Bondone. The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, built on the site of an ancient Roman arena, houses the first cycle of frescoes indisputably attributed to Giotto. In

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Notre-Dame at Night

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The bronze griffin on the apse of Pisa Cathedral, its origin and purpose

Pisa Cathedral, occupying the most conspicuous site in Pisa, is unfortunately usually eclipsed by the Leaning Tower and attracts little attention. The building is, nevertheless, extraordinarily interesting. And most interesting of all is the eleventh-century griffin atop a column on the cathedral's apse. How did it come

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Jesus in the Parisian sky before installation on the south transept of Notre-Dame

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Kuskovo Palace in Winter

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Vase with chimeras in the park of Versailles, Parterre du Midi, 1665

Vase with chimeras in the park of Versailles, Parterre du Midi, 1665. During the Revolution, the imperial lilies on the coat of arms were replaced with a sword

Cutaway illustration of the Colosseum with crowded seating, an arena with elephants and palms, underground chambers and a golden statue at left.

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Cutaway reconstruction of the Colosseum showing the arena, underground chambers and seating

The Colosseum in cross-section. I adore diagrams like this