Drawing of people in long black cloaks walking beside a hearse under a golden canopy, with ranks of soldiers on both sides and buildings and a crowd behind.

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Funeral procession with a canopy between lines of soldiers, watercolour scroll

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Natalia Goncharova, "Autumn

Natalia Goncharova, "Autumn. Park", 1909

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Maya Plisetskaya 🖤

Black-and-white photo of a smiling bearded man in glasses leaning on paintings set on easels. Spectators stand behind him at the edge of a forest.

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Bearded man in glasses beside paintings on easels in an open meadow

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One of the Earliest Photographs of Stonehenge

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Seeing this tattered poster of Sophia Loren in Portugal in the summer of 1956, Agnès Varda decided to wait for someone to walk past, so as to get a good shot of the scene

Seeing this tattered poster of Sophia Loren in Portugal in the summer of 1956, Agnès Varda decided to wait for someone to walk past, so as to get a good shot of the scene. The first to appear was a barefoot woman whose movements, by a strange coincidence, echoed the

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Autumn Has Come to Moscow

Illustration: a woman in a chrysanthemum-patterned shawl kisses a child in a kimono holding a cross-topped orb. Golden halos and the captions 神の母 and キリスト appear above.

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Madonna and Child in Japanese style, with Japanese captions

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The Virgin Mary in the Japanese Pictorial Tradition

Close-up of the Moon with coloured surface tones and craters, with Saturn and its rings visible above the limb against the dark sky.

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Andrew McCarty photographed Saturn being occulted by the Moon from a Hawaiian volcano

Saturn emerging from behind the Moon. The American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy climbed to the summit of a volcano in Hawaii to photograph Saturn being briefly covered by the Moon. The Mauna Kea Observatory, where the picture was taken, stands on the volcano at an altitude of between 3,700 and

Detail of a painted still life: a snail with a yellow striped shell crawls across a reddish-brown ledge beside a cluster of pale green blossoms and leaves, with water drops on the stone.

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Snail and viburnum blossoms on a stone ledge, detail of a still life

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