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Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Judith with the Head of Holofernes. Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530. The model for this painting, as for many of Cranach's other works, was Princess Sibylle of Cleves. Cranach had been tutor to her husband, John Frederick, Elector of Saxony. John Frederick is also portrayed in the picture:

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Mantle of the Grand Master of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III

Mantle of the Grand Master of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III. This is the second most important order in Spain after the Order of the Golden Fleece. The mantle belonged to King Ferdinand VIl. It is made of light blue silk in honour of the Virgin

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The Book of Hours of Gian Galeazzo Visconti: a Latin book of hours commissioned by the first Duke of Milan of the House of Visconti in the late fourteenth century

The Book of Hours, also known as the "Golden Book of Visconti", is lavishly illustrated in the manner characteristic of the "International Gothic". The pigment used for the blue contains rare lapis lazuli mixed with gum arabic (a hard, translucent resin consisting of the dried sap

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A Case in Which There Can Be No Doubt of Aristocratic Descent

Princess Beatrice, niece of King Charles III and daughter of the notorious Prince Andrew, was born in 1988, and her distant relation Princess Victoria of Wales, daughter of Edward VII, was born in 1868. The same shadows beneath the eyes, the same shape of face, the same lips and nose.

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😍😍😍😍 Italian princesses of the House of Savoy and the House of the Two Sicilies at the name-day celebration of the great-grandchildren of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy in Turin

😍😍😍😍 Italian princesses of the House of Savoy and the House of the Two Sicilies at the name-day celebration of the great-grandchildren of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy in Turin. From left to right: Vittoria of Savoy, Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Luisa of Savoy and Chiara of Bourbon-

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A fine occasion today to recall the magnificent 1963 screen adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel “The Leopard”, on the life of the aristocratic Salina family amid the political and social upheavals of the Risorgimento in Italy

Civil war is breaking out in Italy. On one side stand the republicans, adherents of Garibaldi; on the other, supporters of the ruling Bourbon dynasty. Alain Delon plays Tancredi, nephew of the central character, Prince Salina, who embodies the aristocracy in the face of fatal change. Prince Salina is played

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Have you ever seen an iron bed like this?

Have you ever seen an iron bed like this? A unique piece of furniture! It is made of wrought iron with openwork decoration of foliage and bouquets of flowers. This is a travelling bed, easy to dismantle and transport, which you can always take along if you set off on

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I don't see anything funny here, by the way: the lady might have stood up for the birds that had taken up residence in her wig

I don't see anything funny here, by the way: the lady might have stood up for the birds that had taken up residence in her wig. A pity that in 1775 mercy was not in fashion to the same degree as extravagant coiffures. Still, the aristocrats of the

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Marie Antoinette in Hunting Dress

Marie Antoinette in hunting dress. The portrait by Joseph Kreutzinger of 1771 was one of the favourites of Marie Antoinette's mother, Empress Maria Theresa, although she disliked her daughter's habit of hunting on horseback. Maria Theresa, herself a legendary woman of European history, had 16 children.

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"Do you consider the House of Lords a more perfect institution than the House of Commons?" "Naturally"

"Do you consider the House of Lords a more perfect institution than the House of Commons?" "Naturally. In the House of Lords we are never brought into contact with public opinion. That is what makes us a civilised institution." Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance,

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"Concert Given by the Duc de Nevers in Honour of the Dauphin's Birthday", by the Baroque Italian painter Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1751

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The Bathroom of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace

The bathroom of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace. Eduard Petrovich Hau, 1850s