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The year was 1535, and a peasant from Lyon maintained that he was not at all to blame

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A Scene in a Russian Village after the Manoeuvres, 1936

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Balenciaga at home:

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Sunday Guests, George Hughes, 1953

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A Precious Reliquary with a Lock of Lucrezia Borgia's Hair in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan

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A pelican feeding its young with its own blood: the emblem of the Department of the Institutions of Empress Maria

A pelican feeding its young with its own blood: the emblem of the Department of the Institutions of Empress Maria. That is, Maria Feodorovna, consort of Emperor Paul I. This was the name of the principal department administering charity in the Russian Empire

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Nike?

Nike? An excellent choice!

Four photographs in wooden frames hang on a pale wall in two rows of two. Each shows an isolated billowing cloud: pinkish, red, brownish and white. Labels with QR codes sit beside them.

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Four framed photographs of clouds on a gallery wall

Medieval miniature: a crowned winged woman turns a golden wheel with a king seated on top and figures falling from its sides.

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The Wheel of Fortune in a 15th-century miniature for Giovanni Boccaccio's work on the fates of the noble

The Wheel of Fortune in a 15th-century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's "Fates of Illustrious Men and Women" looks like a fairground carousel, with a king enthroned at the very top while courtiers go flying off the rickety side seats

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Parisian Ladies in Winter Toilettes: An English Caricature of French Fashion of the Early Nineteenth Century

A wet asphalt path leads into a park between perforated metal fences, one with a no-pedestrians sign. Red pipes, an excavator and bare trees are visible in the distance.

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Paved park path between construction fences

A partly demolished Gothic church with a pointed arch and exposed timber roof frame. A yellow excavator stands among rubble below; another stone building is on the left.

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