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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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Ancient Atomists
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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