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Gustave Doré's 1871 work on Christian martyrs in the arena
Christian Martyrs. Gustave Doré, 1871
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A Mountain of Crockery with a Pearl Earring
A mountain of crockery with a pearl earring. The artist is Emil Schwarzler
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Caricature of the 1843 Closure of Karl Marx's Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne
The Prussian eagle pecks at the liver of Karl Marx, chained to a printing press like Prometheus to his rock. The caricature was timed to coincide with the closure in 1843 of the Cologne Rheinische Zeitung, edited by Marx
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May Your Morning Begin with the Beautiful Ancient Rus' of Vsevolod Ivanov
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Another Stroke of Genius on Avito
Another stroke of genius on Avito. Yeltsin plays billiards with the presidents of the Union republics as the balls, and Gorbachev, naturally, breaks the USSR
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The Heraldic Crowns of the United Kingdom of Italy
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Queen of Beasts Card from an Early Western European Deck of 1450 to 1467
A playing card showing a woman entirely covered in hair, embracing a unicorn. The drawing dates from 1450-1467 and belongs to one of the earliest Western European card packs. As you can see, fifteenth-century cards differed greatly from modern ones: you will scarcely find a suit marker here,
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Prehistoric people feasting in Viktor Vasnetsov’s “Stone Age”, 1883
The Stone Age. A Feast. Viktor Vasnetsov, 1883 *My leopard skin is prettily reflected in the glass in the centre
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Venus in a golden bikini from Naples and the two-piece garment of women in ancient Rome
The Venus in the Golden Bikini from the Naples National Archaeological Museum. She is not the only evidence that women in ancient Rome wore a costume of two separate parts: an upper bodice covering the breasts and a lower part covering the hips. It could serve as underwear or as
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A company strolling beneath cathedral vaults in an oil painting on panel
The artist Laurent Grasso reimagines the interior of the Church of St Bavo by the Dutch draughtsman Pieter Jansz Saenredam of 1631 in his painting of 2023. And the company strolling beneath the cathedral vaults elegantly turns, elegantly turns into a little cloud of mist. Studies of the Past, oil
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Carlo Scarpa's design for the 1953 exhibition of the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina entered the golden fund of exhibition architecture
Carlo Scarpa's design for the 1953 exhibition of the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina entered the golden fund of exhibition architecture. Scarpa draped the rooms of the Palazzo Zanca in multicoloured cotton cloths, concealing walls, floors and every scrap of decoration, and leaving only niches for the
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Hundreds of frogs playing tennis and billiards, brawling in a tavern, fighting with rulers at school, performing acrobatic stunts and going about other ordinary human business: this is one of the most unusual museums in the world, the museum of frog taxid
Hundreds of frogs playing tennis and billiards, brawling in a tavern, fighting with rulers at school, performing acrobatic stunts and going about other ordinary human business: this is one of the most unusual museums in the world, the museum of frog taxidermy in the Croatian city of Split. The Hungarian