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Ezra Miller and the Terracotta Amulet with the Eye of Horus

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Kim Kardashian and the Predynastic Female Figure of 3500 BC from the Brooklyn Museum

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Billy Porter and the Pectoral of Tutankhamun, 1323 BC, from the Cairo Museum

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A certain Frenchman, here in full dress: and are you ready for Friday evening?

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I maintain that in Bernini's "Rape of Proserpina" it is most unjust that all the attention goes to Proserpina's bottom: Hades is very fine too

Marble tomb with a statue of the pope in a niche and a red stone drapery from beneath which Death emerges holding an hourglass.

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Tomb of Pope Alexander VII by Bernini with a skeleton and an hourglass

The tomb of Pope Alexander VII, Bernini. From beneath the drapery that stands for the flesh, Death peers out with an hourglass.

Interior of Saint Peter's Basilica with the dome, a Latin inscription running around it and a dark baldachin in the centre.

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Michelangelo's dome and Bernini's baldachin in Saint Peter's Basilica

St Peter's Basilica: the dome by Michelangelo, the baldachin by Bernini. I would like to congratulate everyone on the creative power of Christian culture

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The Marble Lion in Santa Maria del Popolo Awaits His Appointment with the Dentist

Stone relief in a round window showing a male figure fixed head down on a spoked wheel.

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The Execution of Saint George in a Window Relief at the Stiftskirche in Tübingen

Today, on Saint George's Day, many recall his rich iconography. To my mind, more impressive than the scene of the dragon being slain is the execution of George, for instance this relief on a window of the Stiftskirche in Tübingen

A girl in a white cap and apron stands on a chequered floor holding a fish, while a cat stands on its hind legs beside her.

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Jacob Cuyp paints a four-year-old girl holding a fish, with a cat beside her

You ask what is going on here? I shall tell you: three hundred and seventy years have passed and nothing has changed. Four-year-old children still torment animals, and the grown-ups still find it amusing. The girl also holds a fish in her right hand. All in all,

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The Old Synagogue of San Francisco on Sutter Street, before and after its destruction

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