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In 1855 the painter Victor Navlet did not merely fly over Paris in a hot-air balloon but recorded the view of the city in minute detail on an enormous seven-metre canvas, "View of Paris from a Balloon", now on display at the Musée d'Orsay
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Cooking up something interesting with Amediateka 😏
NB! · Observations · Mores · Humour
Whom, do you suppose, does this hostess hope to deceive by passing off a bowling ball as a Christmas pudding?
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Handwritten sketch of a flying machine with flapping wings and notes
NB! · The East · Art · People
An Unexpected Subject for Salvador Dalí: The Walls of Babylon
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You Can See at a Glance: Acknowledged Society Beauties
NB! · Architecture · Paris
A view of Paris from the Montparnasse Tower, the hideous 210-metre skyscraper built in the centre of the French capital in 1972
NB! · Art · New York · People
The most expensive painting in the history of Latin American art: "Diego and I" by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo
The most expensive painting in the history of Latin American art is "Diego and I" by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. In November 2021 the picture was sold at Sotheby's in New York for 34.9 million US dollars. The previous record belonged to "Rivals&
NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Mores
General Kostenetsky Dined at Count Osterman-Tolstoy's for Twenty Years
General Kostenetsky dined at Count Osterman-Tolstoy's for twenty years. It was so organic a part of their routine that every day, an hour and a half before dinner, the Count sent his carriage to fetch the General
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Is This Even Legal?
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