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Claude Monet in His Garden at Giverny

A wild-eyed giant with long grey hair emerges from darkness, gripping a bloodied headless body and biting into it. Painting in dark brown and ochre tones.

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Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son (Black Paintings)

Painting by Rubens: a nude, grey-bearded Saturn with a scythe on a long shaft sinks his teeth into the chest of a screaming infant.

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The Subject of Saturn Devouring His Son in Rubens and Goya Compared

Saturn Devouring His Son, as performed by Rubens and Goya. Next to the second, the first looks like an innocent nibble

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When the Whole of the City's Beau Monde Gathered at a Single Event

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Shall We Have a Word?

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When you realise there is now nothing to spend your TsUM bonus points on

An abstract composition in beige, pale blue and light green, with triangles and a yellow ring, hangs on a wall in a beam of light. A label is placed to its right.

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Abstract painting by Eduard Steinberg on an exhibition hall wall

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Everyone Has a Neighbour Like This

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Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov and his wife Victoria Romanovna at the Easter table

Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov and his wife Victoria Romanovna at the Easter table. Judging by the economy-class bimetallic radiator, the cyan-style refurbishment of the flat and the restrained laying of the table, I would venture that the heir of the Romanovs and the Hohenzollerns has not, after all, left