Detail of a painting on grey ground: four figures with large blue, red and orange hair; below, the inscription “Dinner for philosophers… Halle, 1922” with a Russian translation.

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Painting “Dinner for Philosophers-Collectors,” Halle, 1922: figures with colourful hair

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Charles Aznavour's Selfie

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You might just as well have said you've got your hands full

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A Phenomenal View of the Courtyard of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena

Men, women and children in early 17th-century dress and ruffs in a picture gallery; a man displays a Madonna and Child painting, and a dog lies in the foreground.

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Group in a collector's gallery viewing a painting of the Madonna and Child

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And on Friday, I remind you, we are off to the cinema to talk about "Little Buddha"

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Victory Day in Paris, 8 May 1945

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The Lad Tom Cruise in the USSR in 1988

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The bridge to Balchug over the Vodootvodny Canal has still not opened, and almost a year has passed

Guests at a wedding ceremony, with a woman in a white dress and a man in dark clothing seen from behind circled in red, and a bride in a long veil nearby.

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Camilla Parker Bowles among the guests at the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana

Camilla Parker Bowles in a white dress and veiled hat at the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. One really does have to be quite something to manage that…

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I plunge into the abyss of contexts surrounding the new portrait of King Charles

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