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Miss Jane Bowles, I repeat, little Miss Jane Bowles in the buff-coloured dress in the painting by Joshua Reynolds, stop strangling the dog

Close-up of a painting: a man in a helmet and dark green clothing tilts his head back and raises his hands. Painted flies surround him on a gilded background.

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Detail of a medieval painting: a helmeted man and flies on a gold ground

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The Louvre Abu Dhabi Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary, and the Public Is at Last Shown the Museum's Generous Gift: Leonardo da Vinci's Masterpiece "John the Baptist"

The Louvre Abu Dhabi is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and the public has at last been shown the generous gift the museum has received: Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "John the Baptist". The painting, dating from the early sixteenth century, has passed from the Louvre in Paris

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Make Yourself at Home, or What I Mean When I Say "Domesticity Has Swallowed Me Whole"

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Children's boots with gold embroidery like these were one of the most popular Bukharan export goods of the nineteenth century

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Girls with two Cartier bracelets be like

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Greetings from the Emirate of Bukhara

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Bukhara Is Beautiful 💜💙

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Tatyana Tolstaya and the Boiled Mushrooms

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I don't know about you, but to my mind the glass teapot with a plunger is one of the least aesthetic and most senseless objects of modern domestic life

I don't know about you, but to my mind the glass teapot with a plunger is one of the least aesthetic and most senseless objects of modern domestic life. A herald of the plastic-and-steel age, borne aloft on the wings of overconsumption

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These Three ❤️

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