Painting of a wide river with a many-arched stone bridge, town houses and a large dome under an overcast sky. People in 18th-century dress stand on the bank beside boats.

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Painted view of the Elbe, a stone bridge and the Frauenkirche dome in Dresden

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Over three days, from 13 to 15 February 1945, Anglo-American aircraft all but destroyed the ancient German city of Dresden

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Terrifying Physiognomic Pictures

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A gentleman from a sixteenth-century Book of Hours decided to present his beloved with a small reminder of death

A tall grey sculpture made of uneven, crumpled-looking masses with textured, imprinted surfaces. Behind it is a blue sky with white clouds.

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Sculpture of stacked, lumpy forms against a cloudy sky

Quick ink sketch on yellowed paper in a mat: a dark horse mid-leap, a grey harnessed horse and the circles of carriage wheels.

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Ink sketch of horses and a carriage with wheels

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The Death of Cleopatra, Artemisia Gentileschi

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Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star

Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star. Samuel Palmer, 1830

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Those Very Lecturers Whose Words Fly Straight Past the Ears

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The correct form is Levi-Strauss, not Levi-Strauss

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Marshal Joachim Murat with His Mother

Marshal Joachim Murat with his mother. The King of Naples was the youngest of twelve children in the family of a prosperous innkeeper who managed Talleyrand's estates. He himself had four children by Napoleon's sister Caroline

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