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Countess Virginia La Castiglione and her photograph archive at the Metropolitan Museum
Countess Virginia Oldoini di Castiglione (1837-1899) fell in love with being photographed before it became mainstream. Thanks to the fact that her archive of photographs found its way into the Metropolitan Museum as early as the nineteenth century, dozens of portraits of this society intriguer, courtesan and Parisian fashionista
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Bilbo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings and Father Vito Cornelius from The Fifth Element are one and the same man: Sir Ian Holm (1931-2020)
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"In the Air, Brenner Island", 1996 and "Island Roses", 1978
"In the Air, Brenner Island", 1996 and "Island Roses", 1978. The magic realism of the American artist Jamie Wyeth
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François-Marie Banier, perhaps one of the foremost celebrity photographers of the twentieth century
François-Marie Banier is perhaps one of the foremost celebrity photographers of the twentieth century. I remember how, at the exhibition of his work in the Manege some 15 years ago, I was struck by the number of remarkable people whom Banier had managed to capture. But he is known
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Mood: Elizabeth II through the lens of François-Marie Banier, 1992
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Valentin Serov’s painting “Peter I Hunting with Hounds”, created in 1902
Peter I Hunting with Hounds, 1902. Valentin Serov
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Fedot Sychkov's path from village icon painter to the Academy of Arts and back to the village
Paintings by Fedot Sychkov (1870-1958), Honoured Art Worker of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the Mordovian ASSR. Sychkov was born into a poor peasant family and finished the three-class zemstvo school in his village. He began to draw in an icon-painting workshop. As so
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Khrushchev's Tu 114 Flight to the USA and His Calls for Peaceful Competition
On 15 September 1959 the first visit by a Soviet leader to the United States began. A Soviet sputnik in Earth orbit, a Soviet rocket on the Moon, and the Soviet leader arriving in the United States aboard a Soviet Tu-114, the largest passenger aircraft in the world. Khrushchev
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Prince Harry turns 39 today, fifth in line to the British throne
Prince Harry turns 39 today, fifth in line to the British throne. One would wish him a little sense, and that the queue never, in fact, reaches him or his descendants
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How Napoleon handled papers and dictated to his secretaries, according to Andrew Roberts
Napoleon knew perfectly well how to set his priorities. Urgent tasks he took up at once; papers that were important but not pressing he laid in a pile to be dealt with later; and documents he did not consider important he threw on the floor. Whereas Louis XVIII had a
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