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"Dance at Bougival", Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883
"Dance at Bougival", Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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A Basin for Washing Your Eyes After Everything You Have Seen on the Internet, Fifteenth Century
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Photograph of two mountaineers with ice axes taken in 1900
Two mountaineers in 1900. Every time I see photos like this, I am struck by how much the world has changed in a mere hundred years.
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Congratulations to all students and teachers on the official end of the academic year!
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Screen with a portrait of Yevgeny Vakhtangov on a building wall, 2024
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The tunic of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914
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Donald Duck and a New Shipment of Slave Girls from Chaldea in a Comic Panel
Donald Duck and the beautiful slave girls of Chaldea. These days he would already be sitting through a hearing in the Senate
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When Lancelot rescued Queen Guinevere from the otherworldly land of Gorre, he had to undergo many trials of body and soul
When Lancelot rescued Queen Guinevere from the otherworldly land of Gorre, he had to undergo many trials of body and soul. For instance, to prove his resolve to press on whatever the difficulties, he had to cross a bridge that was, in fact, an enormous and unbelievably sharp sword
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In the original version of the legend, Robin Hood did not hand out stolen riches to the poor: the people loved him already for merely hounding the wealthy, robbing abbots and bishops, mocking sheriffs and poaching on the king's land
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Pair of Works from Bouts's Workshop from the Duchess of Berry's Collection Sold at Sotheby's for €360,000
The delightful "Virgin at Prayer" and "Christ in Sorrow" from the workshop of Albrecht Bouts, from the recent Old Masters sale at Sotheby's in France. This pair of Flemish Renaissance works from the Venetian collection of the Duchess of Berry sold for a little
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George Orwell and the Dachshund
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Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit of 1602 by Juan Sánchez Cotán, the founder of Spanish realism
Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit of 1602 by Juan Sánchez Cotán, the founder of Spanish realism. Can you catch the pleasant whiff of Caravaggism?