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In this wine glass sits the devil who is carrying the House of Hanover to hell
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Linor Goralik wrote that in one Soviet album the painting was titled "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash"
Linor Goralik wrote that in one Soviet album the painting was titled "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash". As they say, the subtleties of translation!
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The Dachshund Hurries
The dachshund is in a hurry. 1912, a painting by Giacomo Balla, one of the authors of the manifesto of Italian Futurism: "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash". Oil on canvas.
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I Feel Like the Owl in the Portrait of the Scottish Writer and One-Hit Wonder James Boswell
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Count of Bellamont in a portrait wearing mismatched coloured shoes with spurs
Note that the Count of Bellamont is wearing odd-coloured shoes, and with spurs to boot. Only the most daring dandies could permit themselves footwear of differing colours; it was considered the height of style
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This is no Kirkorov of the eighteenth century, but the Irish politician Charles Coote, Earl of Bellomont, in the regalia of a Knight of the Order of the Bath: a mantle of crimson velvet, a hat with an ostrich plume and a gold chain weighing a kilogram
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The marble lions that lay for 409 years at the foot of the tomb of the French king Charles V and vanished from Saint-Denis in the years of the Revolution, were found 200 years later and sold at auction for £9 million
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A woman, whatever we choose to call her, cares for her beauty: in one hand a comb, in the other, presumably, a mirror
A woman, whatever we choose to call her, cares for her beauty: in one hand a comb, in the other, presumably, a mirror. The most interesting thing is that this pair comes from the church where Shakespeare lies with his wife
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Relief with a male and a female water being and the origin of the rusalka
A curious carving of two aquatic creatures: one male, one female. One should be careful with the term "rusalka", since it is purely Slavic. For clarification one ought to read about life beneath the waters and the harem of the vodyanoy: here one thinks of Barbara Frischmuth'
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Carving of Sea Creatures in a Twelfth-Century English Church
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Victor Hugo's drawing of the Bastille, known to him only from paintings
Today is Bastille Day, when my neighbour from the 3rd entrance, Uncle Lyonya, used to get drunk and bellow "A young Cossack strolls along the Don". This is Victor Hugo's drawing of the Bastille, which he knew only from paintings, but it looks rather like it