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Rock crystal objects of the 3rd to 5th centuries AD, found at Carthage and held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
NB! · Observations · Science · Ethnography · Humour
What talent and imagination Soviet scholars must have possessed to contrive to insert a quotation from Lenin into, say, an article on the social anthropology of pre-class societies
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Watercolour of three figures, a woman in a patterned dress in the foreground
NB! · Coming Up · Art · Moscow
The Stage Gallery Continues Its Exhibition of Akhmat Bikanov, a Young Artist and Graduate of MARKHI, with Touching Watercolour Portraits of Fictional and Real People with Prominent Noses
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Boy in a military-style uniform with epaulettes, sepia studio portrait
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Tsarevich Alexei
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A very charming piece of double dressing by Elizabeth II and her youngest son Edward, Earl of Wessex, in 2004
A very charming piece of double dressing by Elizabeth II and her youngest son Edward, Earl of Wessex, in 2004. In the arms of Sophie, Countess of Wessex, is their elder daughter, Louise Windsor.
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Le Jardin by Alexandra Vertinskaya: framed flower pictures on a blue wall
NB! · Art · Mores · People
Laundresses, 1652-53, by the Dutch watercolourist and poetess Gesina ter Borch, best known for the touching and amusing sketches of scenes from family life in her albums
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NB! · Faith · People · Rome
Pope Francis at the Palm Sunday service
Pope Francis at the Palm Sunday service. From tomorrow Holy Week begins for Catholics. This is already the second Easter under lockdown. For the Orthodox, Palm Sunday falls this year on 25 April