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The Allegorical Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I with Father Time at her right and Death looking over her left shoulder. Two cherubs are removing the weighty crown from her tired head.
Unknown artist, circa 1620.
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I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.
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April 1865. “Washington Navy Yard, David. E. Herold, Lincoln assassination conspirator.”
This 22-year-old accomplice of John Wilkes Booth was executed by hanging on July 7, 1865.
Glass negative by Alexander Gardner.
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In My Studio, Evelyn Nesbitt, Tired Butterfly, by Rudolf Eickemeyer, 1909
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César Vallejo, “Heights of the Principal Mountains in the World; Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World,” from Victorian Infographics and Comparative Perspectives
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César Vallejo, “Heights of the Principal Mountains in the World; Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World,” from Victorian Infographics and Comparative Perspectives
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Reproduction implies the existence of discontinuous beings…Each being is distinct from all others. His birth, his death, the events of his life may have an interest for others, but he alone is directly concerned in them. He is born alone. He dies alone. Between one being and another is a gulf of discontinuity.
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Georges de la Toure, La série “Borges”
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Gerrit van Honthorst - Saint Sebastian,detail, ca.1623.
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Frida and Diego at the Park, 1932
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Russian women place flowers by the bodies of four American soldiers slain by German officers, 1945.
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ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Confederate Infantryman armed with a revolver and Bowie knife]
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Vue de l’exposition de Bernard Aubertin, programme des interventions sur le bâtiment, dans le cadre de la...
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PlayShostakovich’s “chamber symphony”, an orchestration of -in my opinion- greatest quartet, the 8th. The 8th...
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Paul Delvaux & Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte1898 - 1967
René François Ghislain...
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