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Sundial on a column at the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii still keeps accurate time
At last, a convenient sundial. The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii. Best of all, it still tells the time without error
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There Is Something Not Quite Right About This Stalin...
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Black lacquered tray with gold borders and an oval landscape
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René Gruau 🔥
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Oval portrait of a woman in a red velvet frame
NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
Drifting into the weekend with Gustave Caillebotte, acquired not long ago by the Musée d'Orsay for 3 million euros with the help of Bernard Arnault, who added a further 40 million from his company's coffers
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Elizabeth II smiling from a train window in a black-and-white photograph
Elizabeth II at a train window. Sad, though it is some time now since she was seen off.
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Listen to me on Radio Mayak, on the programme “Understand Yourself If You Can”, with Artem Novichenkov and Vladislav Timkin
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Abraham Bosse's 1636 engraving of women dining together without their husbands
Women at table in the absence of their husbands. Abraham Bosse, 1636
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A Wretched Copy and the Inimitable Original
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You Are Getting On a Bit If You Use These Emojis
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