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Depictions of Arius in Christian art and the legends of his death

In Christian iconography, both Eastern and Western, the subject of a bishop with his bowels spilling out is not a rare one. Examples include a miniature from the Arsenal Bible, a fragment of the seventeenth-century Russian icon "The Creed" and a fresco in the Church of the

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Joe Biden in 1960, that is, the 46th President of the United States is 18 in this photo

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The Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers, the better to keep watch over the Rijksmuseum, his beloved brainchild, even after his death, hid a sculpted portrait of himself on the wall of one of the towers on the Museumplein side

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The mother of the composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Yevgenia Andreyevna Glinka-Zemelka, married her second cousin Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka and became a Glinka, but without the Zemelka

Black-and-white portrait of an elderly man in a cap with a very long beard, in which a small black kitten sits.

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Frenchman Louis Coulon, with a beard 3.5 metres long, posed for postcards

The Frenchman Louis Coulon and his beard of three and a half metres, in which a cat could be hidden. And, very likely, a cow. The old gentleman grew his beard and made his living by being photographed for comic postcards

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A Night in Venice, Konstantin Gorbatov

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Mindadze’s co-author does not classify their joint films as art house in the modern sense

One of the finest masters of Russian cinema, the director Vadim Abdrashitov (1945-2023), when asked whether he considered his films arthouse, replied:. I think that the pictures Mindadze and I made can hardly be assigned to this, so to speak, movement. So to speak, I stress. Because we always

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In René Magritte's Studio

Books · People

A book of 24 biographical sketches on optimism, with proceeds going to three charities

Alpina has published an unusual autobiography: a collection of true stories from the life of the diplomat, musician and advertising man Alexander Ohanjanyan, "Diplomats, Footballers and Other Musicians" These are twenty-four biographical sketches about how much in everyday life is funny, touching, beautiful, inspiring, at times sad

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Igor Stravinsky Feeds the Pigeons in Saint Mark's Square, Venice

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Brothers Carduccios Plantagenet and Morston Constantine, Artists from Ohio

The Edible, Exceedingly Appetising Still Lifes of the American Painter Carduccius Plantagenet Ream (1838-1917) And note that Carduccius Plantagenet is his given name; his brother, also a well-known painter, was called Morston Constantine. They were born in Ohio, and Carduccius studied in London. We must, of course, pay

Fresco detail: a grey-bearded old man in a pink cloak looks over his shoulder, with other figures in yellow and blue robes beside him.

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Daniele da Volterra portrayed his friend Michelangelo as an apostle in a fresco in Rome

Portrait of Michelangelo in the guise of one of Christ's apostles. Michelangelo sat for the portrait for his friend Daniele da Volterra, who later transferred it to a fresco in Rome