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Image of the Russian imperial couple by an artist who probably never saw them
Emperor Alexander I and Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, Drawn in Japan. The august pair were captured by an artist who most probably never saw them and had not the faintest notion of their appearance, so that the realism of the portraits rests solely on pale skin and fair hair. I do
Faith · Moscow · Education · Humour
MGTU mailing announces 3 June prayer service for success in the summer exams
Time to Read the Akathists! The Bauman University student mailing list, as ever, is on top form
Art · Observations · People · Humour
Damien Hirst compared a certificate for a future sculpture to futures trading
Damien Hirst Speaks of His "Posthumous Drawings" Project: Instructions for Making Works of Art That Can Be Produced and Sold in His Name After the Artist's Death. "The idea is to have a certificate saying: 'First year after Damien's death: you have
Art · People · Pop Culture · Humour
Attention, Children!
A work by the cartoonist Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family
Geography · Nature · Humour
Brazilians call the bald uakari the English monkey for its likeness to English colonists
The small New World monkey, the bald uakari, or western cacajao, is known in Brazil by a far simpler name: macaco inglês, that is, the English monkey. Popular rumour has very accurately noticed the outward resemblance of this inhabitant of the tropical forests of Amazonia to English colonists, especially after
Art · Observations · Humour
A charming winged creature is simply waiting for you to open the window with no mosquito net
Hieronymus Bosch
Art · Observations · Mores · Humour
The Modern Venus, or a Woman of Modern Fashion in Her Natural State
The Modern Venus, or a Woman of Modern Fashion in Her Natural State. 1786. Who could have imagined that a satire on the standards of beauty of the late eighteenth century would be so precisely realised in our own day?
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George Bernard Shaw with a surfboard on the South African coast at the age of 75, 1931
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When They Asked for the Abstract
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If I Were Not Alexander, I Should Wish to Be Diogenes
Art · London · Humour
“The Lament for Icarus”, a painting by Herbert James Draper from 1898
A Lovely Tan, but at What Price! The Lament for Icarus, a painting by Herbert James Draper, painted in 1898