Renaissance painting: a seated child with beads and six nude female figures of different ages, from a girl to an old woman in a head cloth, against a dark stormy sky.

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Hans Baldung Grien, The Seven Ages of Woman, c. 1544

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Hans Baldung, paintings on the theme of the three (seven) ages of woman and death

Hans Baldung, paintings on the theme of the three (seven) ages of woman and death. 1520s–1540s.

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man with a full beard in a loose grey smock, seated on a chair by a table against a dark brown background, looking directly at the viewer.

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Painted portrait of a bearded man in a grey smock

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It's Just That Sort of Day

It's just that sort of day. Dmitri Shostakovich

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The Italian painter of the Bolognese school Guercino, presumably a portrait of Francis of Assisi, 1618

Newspaper clipping with the grid of crossword No. 78, showing numbered rows and columns and black squares, with part of a decorative heading above.

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Krestoslovitsa No. 78 in a 1943 émigré newspaper, the forgotten Russian name for a crossword

Krestoslovitsa ("cross-wordery") is the forgotten Russian name for the crossword. If you are sure of your breadth of knowledge and pride yourself on your erudition, do try your hand at this puzzle from an émigré newspaper of 1943.

Painting of the rear facades of brick and white stucco townhouses with chimneys and slate roofs under a pale sky.

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View behind the houses on Harley Street in London, a 1925 painting by Algernon Cecil Newton

Behind the houses on Harley Street, London. 1925. Algernon Cecil Newton

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Pascal Monda's Naples ❤️

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Know the feeling?

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Map of Italy during the Renaissance

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What can one say: an excellent choice of cover for the Iliad

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