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Modigliani in His Studio in 1915

A pond with floating leaves, a stone platform with steps and pots, and a green fabric canopy above it amid dense greenery.

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The post's author sees a footballer in a garden with a pond and a stone platform

I don't know whom you see, but I see some footballer. His name, naturally, escapes me

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I call upon Kofemania to come to its senses before it is too late!

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The Cover of the Latest New Yorker

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Napoleon's Death Mask

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Autumn, 1800

A dark-skinned hand in a white sleeve clasps a small bouquet of red and orange flowers against a dark background. A blue piece of clothing is visible at right.

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Hand holding a small bouquet of flowers, detail of a painting

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A Register of Goods for the Tsar's Treasury Suggests That Alexei Mikhailovich Did Not Favour French Wines

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The Sixteenth-Century Poet and Courtier Sir John Harington, Ancestor of Kit Harington, Who Played Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones", Invented the First Flushing Lavatory for the Ageing Queen Elizabeth I

An elderly man in white vestments and a white skullcap laughs at a laid table with wine bottles, bread and carafes.

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Wine and the Vatican, from the Conclave of 1378 to the Wine Institute's Assessment

The Vatican was flooded with wine when the Romans ransacked the Apostolic Palace during the conclave of 1378. Today the Wine Institute names the Vatican one of the most wine-drinking countries in the world

Vintage sepia photograph of a young woman with an upswept hairstyle, earrings and a multi-strand pearl necklace, wearing an off-the-shoulder gown with fur trim and a large dark bow.

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Portrait of a woman in a gown with a large bow and pearl necklace

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Catherine II Setting Out for a Falcon Hunt, Valentin Serov, 1902

Catherine II Setting Out for a Falcon Hunt, Valentin Serov, 1902. Tempera on paper