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The Kiss of Peter and Paul, 15th Century
The Kiss of Peter and Paul, 15th century. Male friendship
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Jan Miense Molenaer, 17th century
Jan Miense Molenaer, 17th century. Children PLAYING AND MAKING MERRY. I can imagine what my mother would have done to these children for such games. Not that I am any fonder of tormentors of animals myself 👿
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums · Observations · Humour
Statue of Idrimi, King of Alalakh, with an autobiographical inscription on his robe
King Idrimi of Alalakh has been extremely tense for 3,500 years, as though disturbed at an inconvenient moment. And his face seems to say more than the autobiographical text inscribed across his robe
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Ivory furniture set given by Louis XVI to Tipu Sultan at the Salar Jung Museum
An ivory suite presented by Louis XVI to Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Indian state of Mysore, is on display in the Salar Jung Museum, India's largest art museum. A question: why carry sand to the beach?
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Claude Gillot’s “The Two Carriages” of 1707 and a quarrel between servants before their carriages
Problems of the aristocracy: how to settle relations between the servants? Claude Gillot, The Two Carriages, 1707. And do not be alarmed: the woman with the reptilian face is in fact merely wearing a velvet mask known as a “moretta”.
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The portraits of Napoleon's younger sister, Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples, recall today's Instagram divas: the same expression and the same angle everywhere, only the frocks and parures change
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An Incredible Likeness!
An incredible likeness! A bust of Friedrich Charles Timothy Emmerich (1786-1820), preacher at the Church of Saint Thomas in Strasbourg, who looks remarkably like Alfie Allen, Theon Greyjoy of "Game of Thrones"
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How to Cook a Pig?
How to cook a pig? Mid-1st century AD, National Archaeological Museum of Naples, where photography is forbidden 😁
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George Stubbs Captured the Cheetah's Escape
The cheetah's escape was captured by George Stubbs. True, the landscape does not look much like Berkshire, but the predator really did go about in a red cap and girdle. In 1970 the painting was bought at Sotheby's by the Manchester gallery
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Little Red Riding Hood in an 1890 painting by George Frederic Watts
Victorian Little Red Riding Hood, George Frederic Watts, 1890. Such a darling: how could anyone have sent her into the forest alone?
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Do you know why the little spaniel wears pearl earrings?
Do you know why the little spaniel wears pearl earrings? Because he belongs to little Mademoiselle de Blois, the legitimised daughter of Louis XIV by the Marquise de Montespan. But in his eyes there is still a "dog's life"
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
They say that when Chagall was in Moscow, he was so struck by the beauty of Levitan's canvases that he asked the Tretyakov Gallery to give him one landscape in exchange for all his own paintings
They say that when Chagall was in Moscow, he was so struck by the beauty of Levitan's canvases that he asked the Tretyakov Gallery to give him one landscape in exchange for all his own paintings. Fools, they should have agreed!