Medieval tempera painting on a gold ground: three bearded men, one gazing upward, and above a grey rock a small figure in green and orange with blue wings.

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Detail of a Gothic painting: three men and a figure flying above a rock on a gold ground

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Fashion Week: That's All

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A Most Unusual Peter I in an Engraved Portrait from the First Printed Biography of Peter and the Lifetime Edition of "The Present State of the Russian Empire" of 1717

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When Everyone Must Urgently Learn What a Well-Read Young Lady You Are

A small portrait in a gilded frame hangs behind glass on a dark wall. Visitors' heads fill the foreground, and one person photographs it with a phone.

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Mona Lisa behind glass at the Louvre, with a crowd of visitors in front

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Old Man Colombo Has So Much Yet to See

NB! · Archive · Faith · Rome

The Vatican, St Peter's Square in the 1950s

The cratered edge of the Moon in the foreground and Saturn with its rings seen edge-on against the dark sky.

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American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy photographs Saturn emerging from behind the Moon

Another shot of Saturn emerging from behind the Moon, taken by the American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy from the summit of a volcano. It is striking how cramped the universe turns out to be: our neighbouring planets are, quite literally, a lens's throw away

NB! · The East · Pop Culture · Ethnography

A Yurt in a J.Crew Shoot, 2000

A mannequin in a black jacket with a large collar, wide trousers and an enormous flat hat stands by a window between silk curtains with a floral pattern.

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Mannequin in a black suit and wide-brimmed hat before floral curtains

NB! · Art · Observations · Mores

I see that many of you liked the antique pet houses; here, for example, is a house-cum-pouffe, early nineteenth century

Two women with long dark hair, in white outfits with numbers and tall boots, cross a crosswalk at night. One holds a rose; buildings and a crowd are behind them.

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