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Graphic Works by Erik Bulatov at the pop/off/art Gallery, Winzavod
Graphic works by Erik Bulatov at the pop/off/art gallery, Winzavod. The Bulatov exhibition runs until 16 January
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Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst's Chess Set
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I think we can all agree that dwarves cannot possibly be so much larger than hobbits as they are in this illustration
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It is often said what a filthy palace Versailles was in its day
It is often said what a filthy palace Versailles was in its day. There is talk of women merely hitching up their skirts to relieve themselves on the very spot where nature overtook them, and of men easing themselves straight from the balustrade in the middle of the royal chapel,
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Good Morning in the Sun of Belle-Île, 1905, with Jean Puy
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Explanatory sheet for the great fireworks of 1755 in honour of Empress Elizabeth I
Depiction of the Great Firework Displayed in Saint Petersburg on the Evening of the New Year 1755 upon the River Neva Before the Winter House of Her Imperial Majesty. The explanatory sheet states that the great firework was given in honour of Her Imperial Majesty Elizabeth I, Autocrat of All
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Boy Building a House of Cards, Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, 1735
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An Angel Looks In at the Window
An angel looks in at the window. The Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos. Fresco in the Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto di Bondone, 1305
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Crozier head with the Archangel Michael and the dragon, 1220s–1230s, Limoges
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“The Adoration of the Magi”, by the sixteenth-century Flemish painter Jan Mostaert, who worked at the court of Margaret of Austria in the Southern Netherlands
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Merry Christmas to all! ❤️
Illustration from the Magnificent Hours of Notre-Dame, 1378/80.
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The Conjuror, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1515/20
The game of thimbles has been known since the most ancient times and over the millennia has scarcely changed, gathering around it even today people who seem positively glad to be deceived and parted from their money. Only the thimbles themselves change: in ancient India cups were used, in ancient