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Only by looking at the wax portrait of Louis XIV can one grasp how innocent and charming all other statues and death masks are, even the eyeless ones

Wax figure with empty eye sockets, light curls, a white collar and armour, displayed behind glass.

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Wax statue of Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne, at Rosenborg Castle

The eyeless wax statue of Prince George of Denmark at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen. George was the husband of Queen Anne of England

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As You Will Understand, the Enema and the Little Lapdog Were Equally Significant Fashions of the Eighteenth Century

As you will understand, the enema and the little lapdog were equally significant fashions of the eighteenth century. Jean-Frédéric Schall

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Do you know what distinguishes an elegant and fashionable lady from a common bourgeoise?

Do you know what distinguishes an elegant and fashionable lady from a common bourgeoise? A tiny dog that watches attentively as the lady is given an enema. Pierre-Antoine Baudouin

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Saint George and the Dignity of His Horse

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Quite a splendid helmet on Saint Maurice, I have been looking for one like it for ages

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What to Do When Telegram Is Blocked

What to do when Telegram is blocked. Francisco Goya, 1820, Doctor Arrieta knows how to help

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Armpit hair is rather unusual in sixteenth-century sculpture

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A relief of 1500-1504 by Tullio Lombardo from the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua

A relief of 1500-1504 by Tullio Lombardo from the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua. An interesting detail on the figure of the repentant son: hairy armpits. Note how the curls have been worked.

Hand-coloured print of a woman in a flower-trimmed straw hat holding a strapped tray of sample shoes, with boots hanging from her skirt.

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A Shoe Seller Displaying Sample Wares in an Eighteenth-Century Print

A commonplace sight of the eighteenth century: a shoe-seller with her samples. Little golden slippers, fur-trimmed shoes and lace-ups, boots, mules and hefty brogues. A pair of the slutanskie ones for me, please

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The Conductor of the Monkey Orchestra, Meissen, Mid-Eighteenth Century

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An altarpiece group in a small church on the border of Saxony and Bohemia strongly recalled Grant Wood's American Gothic, only with a crucifix in place of the pitchfork