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Seeing this tattered poster of Sophia Loren in Portugal in the summer of 1956, Agnès Varda decided to wait for someone to walk past, so as to get a good shot of the scene

Seeing this tattered poster of Sophia Loren in Portugal in the summer of 1956, Agnès Varda decided to wait for someone to walk past, so as to get a good shot of the scene. The first to appear was a barefoot woman whose movements, by a strange coincidence, echoed the

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In 1960 Life Magazine Ran Reproductions of Anatoly Zverev and a Piece by Alexander Marshack, “The Art of Russia That Nobody Has Seen”

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Brodsky with Baryshnikov and Rostropovich

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Antique Armchair, 1895

Drawing of a young woman with long hair, her body covered in floral tattoos, holding a spear, with hills and a village behind her.

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Young Pict woman covered in tattoos, drawing by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, c. 1585

A young daughter of the Picts, covered in tattoos. The girl wears nothing but a belt with a sword and a necklace. Drawing by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, c. 1585

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David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini, Photographed by Helmut Newton, 1988

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Costume Design for the Spider in the Ballet "Mukha-Tsokotukha" (The Fly Who Went A-Shopping), 1980

Tatyana Georgievna Bruni (1902-2001), granddaughter of the architect and painter Yuly Fyodorovich Bruni, great-granddaughter of the artist Fyodor Antonovich Bruni

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The Russian variety singer Anastasia Vyaltseva in a dress with birds, and an Alexander McQueen jacket with the same swallows, from the 1995 collection

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After the Revolution, the steamship “Nicholas II”, built in 1895, was renamed “Ilyich

After the Revolution, the steamship “Nicholas II”, built in 1895, was renamed “Ilyich. In the course of her voyages the ship, laid down at a shipyard in the Scottish town of Dumbarton, sailed to the Far East, served as a floating industrial exhibition, represented Russian culture as an exhibition vessel

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Tolstoy and Chekhov in the Crimea in 1901

Tolstoy and Chekhov in the Crimea in 1901. Lev Nikolayevich is 73, Anton Pavlovich 41.

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A Year with the Sun and Moon in Its Hands, and Light and Darkness Beneath Them

Around the symbolic image of the year are the signs of the zodiac, natural phenomena, details of the weather and the four winds. From the illustrated book Scivias by Hildegard of Bingen, completed in 1151-1152 and devoted to her religious visions

Watercolour drawing of men in early 17th century dress playing ball with bats in a courtyard, with a red tiled roof at the bottom.

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Ball game in the courtyard of the Fulda seminary in an early 17th century album amicorum drawing

Men playing ball in the courtyard of the Fulda seminary, the oldest school in Germany, founded in the monastery of Fulda in the 8th century, that is, more than 1,200 years ago. Drawing from an album amicorum of the early 17th century