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Charles Aznavour on the Champ de Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower

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The Archangel Michael in China

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Among the ceramic miniatures that adorn the hall of Borovitskaya metro station are tiles depicting electrical circuit diagrams, tractor cogwheels, car tyres, icebreakers, oil derricks, cosmonauts... jet aircraft, stars, fish, birds…

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Stone Age people simply did it...

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Works from Yuri Zlotnikov's celebrated "Signal System" series, recently discussed by the art historian Andrei Yerofeyev, are on sale at the Cosmoscow fair, PopoffArt stand

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The G-Class Antiform of Vasily Kononov-Gredin

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Tries On the Costume of a Pharaoh of Egypt, 1894

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British Actor Michael Gambon, Who Played Dumbledore, Has Died

Black-and-white photo of a man in a uniform cap and coat beside an ornately framed nude painting; a Teinturerie shopfront is behind him.

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Man in a uniform cap glancing sideways at a painting of a nude in a shop window

In an arch above a door, a mural shows three red-haired figures against blue hills and sky, one with arms outstretched. A Czech inscription runs below; sculpted female heads flank the arch.

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Art Nouveau mural above a doorway with a Czech inscription on freedom and concord

Painted dome and arched murals with figures on a vestibule ceiling, with a Czech inscription beneath the central arch.

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Alphonse Mucha designed the Lord Mayor's Hall in Prague's Municipal House in 1912

In 1912 Alphonse Mucha was asked to decorate the Municipal House in Prague, with its concert hall, gallery, restaurants and several drawing rooms. The artist produced murals, decoration, textiles and sketches for furniture for one of the rooms, the Lord Mayor's Hall.

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