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Arran, Phil Greenwood

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Arran, Phil Greenwood

Detail of an oil painting with a cracked paint surface: a fluffy white cat looks upward against a dark background.

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Jean-Jacques Bachelier painted “The Cat and the Butterfly” in 1761

The Cat and the Butterfly. Jean-Jacques Bachelier, 1761

Painted sculpture of a standing barefoot woman with long wavy hair and a torn garment with a woven pattern, on a pedestal in a dark museum room.

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Sculpture of a barefoot woman with long hair in a tattered woven garment

The French Olympic Team at the Opening of the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 and the Beauxbatons Academy Delegation at the Goblet of Fire Games at Hogwarts

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The French Olympic Team at the Opening of the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 and the Beauxbatons Academy Delegation at the Goblet of Fire Games at Hogwarts

Engraving in an oval frame: a man in a curled wig, white neckcloth and buttoned coat looks at the viewer, his head slightly turned.

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Oval engraved portrait of a man in a powdered wig, 18th-century style

A fire burns in a fireplace shaped like a giant grimacing face with wavy hair. At right, a table with a lace cloth, chairs in white covers, a bouquet and wine bottles.

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Fireplace carved as a monstrous mask with an open mouth in a dining hall

A Fireplace in the Form of a Lion's Maw in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Villa

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A Fireplace in the Form of a Lion's Maw in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Villa

Black-and-white still: clergy in embroidered vestments walk along a carpet in a frescoed church toward a dais covered with cloth bearing an eagle emblem.

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Procession of clergy in brocade vestments toward a stepped dais in a church

Olive-brown velvet vestment with crosses in circles embroidered in gold and silver thread and three medallions with figures. The piece is displayed in a museum case.

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Velvet liturgical vestment with metal-thread embroidery in a museum display

The Rules of Honest Trade from the Sixteenth Century: Do Not Sell Dyed Cloth for Taffeta, Verdigris-Green Copper for Gold, or Glass for a Diamond

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The Rules of Honest Trade from the Sixteenth Century: Do Not Sell Dyed Cloth for Taffeta, Verdigris-Green Copper for Gold, or Glass for a Diamond

The makers of The Crown have, of course, flattered Charles rather a lot

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The makers of The Crown have, of course, flattered Charles rather a lot

Judging by this fish-tailed monk from a thirteenth-century bestiary, the Little Mermaid did have somewhere to turn besides dry land and the sea witch

NB! · Archive · Faith · Art · Observations · Humour

Judging by this fish-tailed monk from a thirteenth-century bestiary, the Little Mermaid did have somewhere to turn besides dry land and the sea witch

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