Four dancers in leafy costumes catch fire on a green tiled floor. Courtiers watch from a dais at left, musicians play on a balcony at right, and a small dog stands nearby.

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Medieval miniature of dancers in burning costumes before courtiers

Evening view of New York with crosses of lit windows glowing on the facades of three skyscrapers.

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Illuminated crosses on New York skyscrapers at Easter in the 1950s and 1960s

Easter illumination on New York's skyscrapers in the 1950s and 1960s. For many years in a row the city was decked out for Easter with luminous crosses on a great number of landmark buildings, but at some point it all came to an end...

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The marble staircase of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is called the pink staircase, after the colour of the marble with which it is faced

The marble staircase of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is called the pink staircase, after the colour of the marble with which it is faced. The variegated marbles used to finish the staircase were brought from Hungary, and the stone was purchased by the