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"The Madwoman of Étretat" by the French painter Hugues Merle, 1871, and the Log Lady from Twin Peaks by David Lynch, 1990. The two women are united by a tragic fate: both lost someone they loved. The madwoman of Étretat was a real woman whom Merle met in
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Soyuz-Apollo. A work by Lubsan Dorzhiev (1918-2011), People's Artist of the Buryat ASSR, who painted in the folk style and for many years devoted himself to Buryat ornamentation. Soyuz-Apollo was the first international crewed space flight, and is considered to mark the end of the
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Illustration by the American artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951)
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Incredible, enchanting illustrations for the 1989 "Hobbit" by the wonderful Latvian artist Laima Eglīte. Just look at this curly-haired ginger Bilbo and the kindly Gandalf! A lovely, heartfelt piece of work
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Most often Napoleon crossing the Alps is imagined as in the portrait by Jacques-Louis David: a proud horseman astride a white stallion. Delaroche's painting, created more than thirty years after Napoleon's death, shows the then First Consul crossing the Great St Bernard Pass, the shortest
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Yesterday I attended an event rather out of keeping with my usual routine, at the Avtoklaster. If you are wondering what on earth the Parnassian Mockingbird has to do with a space for devotees of the motor industry, I answer: firstly, small private museums are often more interesting than old,
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Sculptural panel over the entrance of the 60-storey General Electric Building at Rockefeller Center, New York. The image alludes to the enigmatic drawing "The Ancient of Days", completed by the artist and poet William Blake only a couple of days before his death, which shows God imprisoned
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