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Maria Callas and Pier Paolo Pasolini on the Set of "Medea" in 1969

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Tsypkin's photograph from the Okhrana file

Tsypkin's photograph from the Tsarist Okhrana file. Tsypkin, Israel-Leizer Wulfovich. Card from the case file on the surveillance by the Tsarist secret police of certain Russian political figures. The photograph was certified by two police officers in his presence on 18 June 1916

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I Hope It Is Merely Clickbait

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Yves Saint Laurent, 1980

Yves Saint Laurent, 1980. Photograph by Lord Snowdon, brother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II and husband of her younger sister Princess Margaret, Antony Armstrong-Jones

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A fresco in one of the Raphael Rooms on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican

A fresco in one of the Raphael Rooms on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The fresco of the 1580s in the Hall of Constantine, by Tommaso Laureti, is called the Triumph of Christianity and shows the Crucifix rising on a pedestal above a shattered statue

Rainy evening in Saint Peter's Square with a tall fir tree, the obelisk, the lit basilica facade and people with umbrellas on wet paving.

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Christmas tree installed in Saint Peter's Square in Rome beside the obelisk of Caligula

A Christmas tree has been erected in St Peter's Square. In Rome, with its obelisks, one does not usually chase after the size of Christmas trees, though this one, I would say, is an impressive 25.5 metres, considering the forty-metre Vatican obelisk of Caligula

Medieval miniature of an armoured knight crawling on a sword across water towards a castle, with two lions on the bank and two figures at a window.

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Lancelot crosses the sword bridge to a castle in a medieval miniature

It is Friday today, which means that many a Lancelot will be returning to his castle in roughly this fashion. Mind your swords!

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A painting in a gilded frame on a dark wall: a nude woman reclines by a pond while a bearded man watches her from the reeds. A museum label hangs to the right.

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François Boucher, Frightened Bather, 1756, on display in a museum

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Forgive me if I am mistaken, but... is that the Green Knight from David Lowery's 2021 fantasy, doodled in the margins of the Glastonbury Cartulary?