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Porteur de caljan: the hookah-bearer
Porteur de caljan: the hookah-bearer. From Cornelis de Bruijn's «Travels in Muscovy, Persia and India».
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Panorama of Moscow from Cornelis de Bruijn's "Travels in Muscovy, Persia and India", in my 1718 edition
Panorama of Moscow from Cornelis de Bruijn's "Travels in Muscovy, Persia and India", in my 1718 edition. Incidentally, I have found my own house here.
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The Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon: Photographs of the Late Nineteenth Century
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You Grieve for Those Not Worth Grieving For, Though Your Thoughts Are the Thoughts of Wise Men
You grieve for those not worth grieving for, though your thoughts are the thoughts of wise men. The wise man grieves neither for death nor for life. Never was there a time when I, and you, and all the Princes of the earth did not exist, and never shall we
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Baboons Worshipping the Sun
Baboons worshipping the sun. Stone relief from the Theban temple of Amun, Louvre collection
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A friend on Insta posted a photo of the memorial stele to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the Majorelle Garden, not far from their villa Oasis in Marrakech, and I noticed the plaque: I remember it used to say simply "In memoriam Yves Saint Laurent"
A friend on Insta posted a photo of the memorial stele to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the Majorelle Garden, not far from their villa Oasis in Marrakech, and I noticed the plaque: I remember it used to say simply "In memoriam Yves Saint Laurent", at
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Have You Read "The Cossacks"?
Have you read "The Cossacks"? Prince Olenin, disillusioned with life and sunk in complete moral decline, goes straight off to the active army in the hope of distracting himself amid new circumstances and places. He hopes that closeness to nature and to the simple folk will help him
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Contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami now makes footwear
Contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami now makes footwear. Well, evidently the world has been feeling a certain shortage of rubber goods. Owners of Crocs, accordingly, should hasten to change their shoes.
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The Holy Family as Imagined by an Early Seventeenth-Century Artist from Northern India
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The restoration of the celebrated sphinxes by the Egyptian Bridge in Saint Petersburg, which has dragged on for almost three years, nears completion
In Saint Petersburg, the restoration of the celebrated sphinxes by the Egyptian Bridge, which has dragged on for almost three years, is nearing completion. The second stage of the work has brought back the sculptures’ historical colouring. At the start of the first stage of restoration, in the spring of
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Garlic, Stone
Garlic, stone. Chinese school. 20th century
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The 18-metre Colossi of Memnon, guarding the entrance to the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep and depicting the pharaoh Amenhotep III, face east
The 18-metre Colossi of Memnon, guarding the entrance to the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep and depicting the pharaoh Amenhotep III, face east. Built of sandstone in 1350 BC in the necropolis of the city of Thebes. During an earthquake in the year 19 the northern colossus cracked, and from