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One of Monet's paintings from the "Haystacks" series

The first paintings of the series were begun in late September or early October 1890, and Monet went on working on them for about seven months. They made Monet the first painter to produce so many images of one and the same subject, differing in light, weather, atmosphere and perspective.

Page of an old book: an engraving of a weeping eye above a landscape with two boats and a tree, in an ornamental frame, with English verse below.

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Emblem of a weeping eye in the English book “Minerva Britanna” of 1612

Woe Is Me, That I Have Seen This. An emblem with a weeping eye, from the English counterpart of the "Emblemata", the 1612 book "Minerva Britanna, or A Garden of Heroical Devises"

Painted landscape with tall trees, a horse, deer, lions, swans and parrots in the foreground, with tiny human figures in the distance.

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Jan Brueghel the Elder's 1615 painting of animals in a wooded landscape

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615

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Pharaoh Nectanebo I, founder of the dynasty of the last rulers of Ancient Egypt, offers a loaf of bread, in a depiction from Alexandria, 370 BC

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In the Where to Go rubric: a new selection of Moscow exhibitions

📌 26 March: opening of the exhibition “Family: My Heritage” on the Benois and Morozov dynasties, until 30 April Museum of Moscow 📌 26 March: opening of the exhibition “Art in the Russian Backwoods: The Oriental Collection of Dmitry Burylin”, until 24 May Museum of Oriental Art 📌 The exhibition “Formulae of Eternity”

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A Collection of Cats from World Culture by the English Artist Susan Herbert

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UNESCO-listed Sucevița Monastery and its frescoes in the late Byzantine tradition

The Ladder to Paradise on the north façade of the medieval Suceviţa Monastery in Romania. The monastery, naturally, is a UNESCO monument. Inside and out it is covered entirely, with the exception of the western wall, in paintings of scenes from the Old and New Testaments, the intercession of all

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The Rothschilds’ ball at Château de Ferrières with a dress code of surrealist heads

The Surrealist Ball. Hosted by Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and her husband Baron Guy de Rothschild at their family estate, the Château de Ferrières in Seine-et-Marne, France. The dress code, written in mirror script, read: "Black tie, long dresses and surrealist heads". As the guests

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A servant reads aloud to his mistress, Madame Geoffrin, while she dines

A painting by Hubert Robert, Christie's Paris. Incidentally, on Madame Geoffrin's wall hangs yet another painting by Hubert Robert.

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Claude Monet's promissory note of 18 October 1875

Claude Monet's promissory note of 18 October 1875. In the document the artist acknowledges receipt of a loan of 1,000 francs from Gustave Manet, brother of the painter Édouard Manet. To obtain the loan, Monet had to pledge 35 paintings. The artist promises to repay the debt

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Artists dressed “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” to draw attention to the dilapidated monument

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in overalls and a sarafan in the colours of the Russian tricolour, sewn by the Monolit textile association in 1998. The decision to dress the sculpture was taken to draw attention to the preservation of a monument that in the 1990s had fallen into an extremely

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