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Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at

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NEW ARTICLE: Manet’s last & perhaps greatest masterpiece ~ A Bar at the Folies-Bergère ~ is famous both for its apparently wilful disregard of perspective, and for its enigmatic central subject, the barmaid. Our analysis of this extraordinary work is at

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Remarkable microscope photography of a handful of sand grains selected from a beach in Maui (Gary Greenberg)

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19th century Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin liked mice and liked painting them. Here’s just one

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19th century Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin liked mice and liked painting them. Here’s just one

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In a 4,500 year-old tomb in Giza, Egypt, excavated in 1927, archaeologists found about 7,000 separate beads stored in 30 small round boxes. After a seemingly impossible but meticulous re-assembly, they were revealed to constitute this bead-net dress

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Way back in 1692, obscure Dutch artist A Boogert produced a one-off, hand-painted, 900 page catalogue of every conceivable colour, complete with detailed handwritten advice to artists on how to create them. Now available online

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At the start of the Japanese rainy season, the glow of fireflies in a moonlit bamboo forest (Kei Nomiyama, “Enchanted Bamboo Forest”, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards)

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Japanese ceramic artist Hitomi Hosono incorporates the detail of leaves and flowers into her delicate porcelain sculptures

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Let’s go back a thousand years ~ a goldsmith from Hornelund, Denmark created this gold clothes brooch, using delicate tracery to form its intricate pattern of foliage & vine leaves. Who could have known that it would still be admired a millennium later!

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I’m just enjoying this Art Nouveau staircase and landing in the ‘Hotel’ Tassel, a townhouse in Brussels designed by architect Victor Horta in 1893

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Enjoying this Art Nouveau winding staircase decorated with metal flowers and vines, designed by architect Ede Magyar, at Reök Palace in Szeged, Hungary (1907)

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This striking Art Nouveau storefront in Rue Royale, Brussels, was originally designed by Paul Hankar in 1896 as a shirt shop. After years of abandonment, it was restored & now operates as famed floral artist/designer Daniel Ost’s flower shop

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Art nouveau red ‘Sunflower Door’ in Prague, with rising sun, topped with round stained glass panel, patterned with tulips, and a central clock. It's located at 6 str Hastalska

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Edward Hopper started drawing at age 5. His paint box was labelled “Would-be Artist”. At age 9 he made this sketch on the back of his school report card. For the rest of his life, he would retain his fascination with solitary contemplation and the sea

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Back in 1692, obscure Dutch artist A Boogert produced a one-off, hand-painted, 900 page catalogue of every conceivable colour, complete with handwritten, detailed advice to artists on how to create them. Now available online, see

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Admiring this striking brass door handle, designed in Art Nouveau style by Heinrich Vogeler in 1905. It adorns the entrance to the Bremen City Hall Council Room

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Revisiting this Art Nouveau winding staircase decorated with metal flowers and vines, designed by architect Ede Magyar, at Reök Palace in Szeged, Hungary (1907)

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Giving the effect of a street strewn with white petals ~- grape vines create this sun-dappled shade in the Calle Ciegos at the Bodega Gonzalez Byass winery, in Jerez, Spain

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Looks like this little medieval creature has just discovered a literary cat-flap. This front & back view of the page is said to be from a 1485 Book of Hours, held in the National Museum in Krakow, Poland

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I’ve posted this painting before over the years because no-one really knows what’s going on, but everyone seems to have a firm view about it! So, is she waving to the spectral child outside, or warning her, or maybe something else? ~ Vrel's mysterious ‘Woman at a Window’ (1650)

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Very clever use of the conventions of perspective means that most people perceive this as a gate leading to a three-dimensional gated passageway. But actually, it’s just a gate (Gymnasium Theresianum, a high school in Vienna)

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Roman glass cups from the Himlingøje burial site in Denmark, from 2nd and 3rd century, found in graves of a rich or princely family

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This remarkable floor mosaic of an octopus fighting a lobster, surrounded by a spectacular variety of sea creatures, was found during the excavation of the House of the Dancing Faun, ancient Pompeii’s richest residence (1st century, National Archaeological Museum, Naples)

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Thomas Kennington’s social realist paintings highlighted the plights of poor, widowed or abandoned women and children during the Victorian era ~ here’s ‘Homeless’ (1890)

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Scottish artist Bryan Angus, based in Banff on the Moray Firth, is inspired by “the drama of the land and weather, enriched by the history of the people and their towns”. He creates linocuts such as this ~ May Morning

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The Byzantine Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, dates back to the 6th century and features this awe-inspiring mosaiced interior

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2,300 years old, this astonishingly life-like bronze head of Thracian king Seuthes III ~ with alabaster & glass paste eyes (so bloodshot!), copper strips for eyelashes & eyebrows, & maybe evidence of old injury to cheekbone. Found in his tomb in 2004 (Nat Mus Archaeology, Sofia)

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Tucked away in a corner of Tehran's Grand Bazaar ~ Mohammad Rafi, surrounded by all the colours of the rainbow in his tiny shop that sells nothing but coloured pencils

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Here’s what Renoir & Monet saw one day in 1869 when they sat side-by-side to paint the scene at La Grenouillère, a popular meeting, eating & boating spot on the Seine ~ Renoir's emphasis on pleasantness contrasts with Monet's bold treatment of the water

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Painter/musician Stuart Dunkel’s vision of a small white mouse triumphant among the raspberries

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Giving the effect of a street strewn with white petals ~ grape vines create this sun-dappled shade in the Calle Ciegos at the Bodega Gonzalez Byass winery, in Jerez, Spain

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Van Gogh’s drawings are often overlooked, but he felt they were “the root of everything” (Pollard birches 1884)

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Splendid art nouveau window at La Victoriana restaurant in Guanajuato, Mexico

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This striking Art Nouveau storefront in Rue Royale, Brussels, was originally designed by Paul Hankar in 1896 as a shirt shop. After years of abandonment, it was restored & now operates as famed floral artist/designer Daniel Ost’s flower shop

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This remarkable floor mosaic of an octopus fighting a lobster, surrounded by a spectacular variety of sea creatures, was found during the excavation of the House of the Dancing Faun, ancient Pompeii’s richest residence (1st century, National Archaeological Museum, Naples)

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The most popular treasure in Taiwan's National Palace Museum ~ the Jadeite Cabbage, carved from single variegated piece of jadeite, ingeniously taking advantage of its variegations & defects, just 18cm (7in) high. Locust & katydid hide in leaves (at R) (Qing Dynasty)

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Here's painter/musician Stuart Dunkel’s vision of a small white mouse triumphant among the raspberries

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Gustav Klimt’s tribute to Italian art, on a spandrel of the stairway at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1891, (photo: Zwickelbild)

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Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, & wakes one with the delicate touch of a finger (Cathedral of St Lazare at Autun)

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Cuban painter Tomás Sánchez’s serene idyll of a verdant tree-island surrounded by still waters is almost meditative (Aislarse, 2001). If you contemplate this long enough, you may notice the tiny figure of a man standing at the near-edge of the forest

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Very clever use of the conventions of perspective means that most people perceive this as a gate leading to a three-dimensional gated passageway. But actually, it’s just a gate (Gymnasium Theresianum, a high school in Vienna)

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Over 800 years old, the Friday Mosque is in the oasis city of Herat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site lying on the ancient Silk Road in Afghanistan

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Cuban painter Tomás Sánchez’s serene idyll of a verdant tree-island surrounded by still waters is almost meditative (Aislarse, 2001). If you contemplate this long enough, you may notice the tiny figure of a man standing at the edge of the forest

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This certainly beats drinking beer from a can ~ Latvian artist Valeri Timofeev’s beautiful wine flutes and goblets, created using the difficult enamelling technique of plique-à-jour ("letting in daylight")

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British artist Meredith Frampton gave up painting due to failing eyesight / fell into obscurity for next 35 yrs / was “rediscovered”/had first solo retrospective at age 88 / a master of flawless finish, disquieting stillness & cool sensuality ~ Game of Patience ■ Woman Reclining

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You can see ~ and climb ~ this literally breath-taking spiral staircase in a stained-glass tower at Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan (“Symphonic Sculpture”, Gabriel Loire)

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Laura Knight’s seemingly-effortless pencil sketch of her bare-footed Cornwall neighbour & friend Ella Naper, eating an apple as she looks back at us from her perch on a tree in a local orchard (1916). Love those delicate shadows!

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Reprising one of my favourite images ~ this is what invariably happens when you finally, absolutely resolve to throw out all those old books (Friedrich Frotzel, The Old Bookcase, 1929)

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In 1349, as Plague swept across Europe, this extraordinary gold wedding ring (with tinkling little gold ball inside) was hidden, with other treasures, under wall of house in Jewish quarter of Erfurt, Germany. Found 650 years later during archaeology dig

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Admiring this set of doors at the Casa Comalat, a private house in the Eixample neighborhood of Barcelona, designed in 1911 by the young modernist architect Salvador Valeri i Pupurull

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Red pomegranates among the foliage, delicate wrought ironwork, & sweeping curves of woodwork ~ the Portone del Melograno (Pomegranate Door) in San Salvario district of Turin is in “Liberty” style, closely related to art nouveau (design: Pietro Fenoglio)

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Admiring this intricately-carved stone latticework of ‘The Tree of Life’ in window of the 16th-century Sidi Saiyyed Mosque in Ahmedabad, India, named after its Ethopian designer and builder

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Gustav Klimt painted this strikingly realistic portrait of Marie Breunig in 1894. She was a friend and client of his long-term partner, fashion designer Emilie Flöge (Belvedere Museum, Vienna)

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Remarkable microscope photography of sand grains selected from a beach in Maui, magnified to 100 - 300 times normal size (Gary Greenberg)

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One of my favourite images ~ this is what invariably happens when you finally, absolutely resolve to throw out all those old books (Friedrich Frotzel, The Old Bookcase, 1929)

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John Singer Sargent makes the difficult look easy ~ just look at how he’s done the hair in this charcoal portrait of Julia Chapin Alsop at 21 years (1909)

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Admiring this stunning gilt-brass timepiece with alarm, sundials & “volvelle”, crafted in book form by Hans Koch in 1580. A volvelle has a complex series of concentric rotating disks used to calculate lunar phases, tides & other astronomical information

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Revisiting the intricately-carved stone latticework of ‘The Tree of Life’ in the window of 16th-century Sidi Saiyyed Mosque in Ahmedabad, India, named after the Ethiopian nobleman (& ex-slave) who commissioned it

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From our archive ~ over 100 years ago, pioneering woman photographer GA (Emma) Barton used Lumière Bros’ new autochrome colour process to create this astonishing colour photograph of a young woman in garden with flowers, fruit & assorted gnomes (1919)

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4,000 year-old Egyptian fish amulet, or good luck charm, made from gold, with inlay of green felspar ~ its owner probably wore it on a chain, attached to the ring on fish’s nose. Signs of wear suggest frequent use (3 cm long, Middle Kingdom)

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Admiring this art nouveau brooch of pansies by Lalique, made with glass, gold, diamonds and enamel (1903-04)

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Impressive Art Nouveau stained glass enclosure added to the balcony of the 19th century ‘Cal Calixtus’ building, at 26 Calle de la Sant Sadurni D’Anoia, in Catalonia

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19th century French artist Rose Bonheur gives her subject matter its due dignity, avoiding cliché or cuteness, in her portrait of the terrier Martin (1879)

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Manet died #OTD 1883. During his long final illness, he began painting the flowers that friends brought to his Paris sickroom. Here are some of his last works, his unpretentious last testament ~ Carnations & Clematis in a Crystal Vase Bouquet ■ White Lilacs ■ (all 1882/3)

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Magnificently-bearded 15C mason/sculptor Adam Kraft’s strikingly naturalistic depiction of himself, holding chisel and mallet, supporting the intricate gothic tabernacle he created at St Lorenz, Nuremberg (1490s)

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Admiring this skilful mosaic of a jellyfish in a sunlit sea, from Great Houses of Havana by Hermes Mallea (Monacelli Press)

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Such craftsmanship, such age! Gold necklaces, over 3,000 years old, from tombs in ancient Greek city Mycenae. The upper three necklaces feature stylised papyrus flowers, those lower have patterns of ivy leaves & scrolls (National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Ilya Shurygin)

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Two views of the main staircase of the Art Nouveau Hotel Sôlvay in Brussels ~ designed from top to bottom (even including the doorbell) by architect Victor Horta in 1898 as a private residence, now a World Heritage listed museum. The painting here is by Théo van Rysselberghe

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4,000 year old pectoral with necklace, from tomb of Egyptian Princess Sithathoryunet ~ cloisonné enamel with gold & 372 fashioned pieces of lapis lazuli, turquoise, garnets & other semiprecious stones, flanked by falcons, as symbols of the sun god

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You want sunshine? You want light? Follow John Singer Sargent on his trip to Corfu in 1909 ~ here’s his watercolours ‘Lights and Shadows’ ■ ‘A Terrace’

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Have you heard of Finnish artist Elin Danielson-Gambogi? Well, now you have ~ here’s her ‘Day Dreamer After Breakfast’ (1890)

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Love this intimate image of Italian conservationist Lorenza D’Alessandro delicately restoring mural of Nefertari at her 1,200 BC tomb. Nefertari was favoured consort of Ramesses II, who wrote “My love is unique, no one can rival her…Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart”

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Stages in Picasso’s depiction of a bull, with progressively increasing degrees of simplicity and abstraction (from ‘Bull’, lithograph, 1945/6)

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Just admiring this openwork gold hairnet, with relief of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, dated as from 200 BC, from the “Karpenisi Treasure”, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

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From his trip to North Africa in 1879 ~ JS Sargent shows how much can be done with shades of white, in this dramatic oil painting of a woman with kohl-darkened eyes & flashy nails, spreading her veil to inhale the exotic ‘Smoke of Ambergris’ (Clark Art Institute)

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Enjoy these details of plant life and petalled blossoms in these decorative mosaic glass inlays from Roman Egypt. They’re about 2,000 years old

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It’s hard not to smile back at actress/opera singer Louise Jacquet, as she looks up at us engagingly from reading an admiring letter, in this exceptional pastel portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard (c 1750). Check out the fine detailing on her clothes, too

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Love this ~ “Saint Hedwig Discovering that a Nun Has a Hedgehog” (1353). In this medieval joke, orange-haloed Hedwig points accusingly at spiky hedgehog in nun’s sleeve, despite ban on pets, & nun says innocently “I don’t know how that got in there!”

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Traditionally, Japanese men stored items in small containers, fixed to their waist-sash by cord secured by a “netsuke” (toggle). Though tiny, these were often intricately carved & decorative ~ here’s Man Catching Chickens/ Bird on Hat & Pumpkin Patch (19C)

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Just look at the attention to fine detail in this low-relief carving of a chariot horse, part of the alabaster carving of the royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king. Dated from about 2,600 BC (photo: Paul Hudson)

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Beautifully-observed & realistic figure of a sleeping antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria, one of the largest & most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world (photo: Linus Wolf)

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Dutch artist MC Escher travelled to Corsica in 1928. Here’s his woodcut of the vertiginous clifftop village of Bonifacio ■ and how it still looks today, almost 100 years later

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After moving to Paris, van Gogh became almost obsessed with colour combinations, and used coloured balls of wool to test different combinations before trying them out with his expensive paints. The wool & the red box they were kept in are pictured here

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Admiring the workmanship in these Byzantine gold bracelets with pearls from 6th century (Varna Archaeological Museum, Bulgaria)

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Book bag under one arm, squirming Christ child under the other ~ carved by an unknown master from a single block of limestone, this is the 3/4 life-size polychrome Nostre Dame de Grasse, dating from late-15th century (photo: Nick Thompson; Musée des Augustins, Toulouse)

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A painted ship upon a painted ocean ~ the sea turns to mercury in this luminous image of a fishing fleet by Californian impressionist William Ritschel (‘Boats Returning Home’ c 1915, Irvine Museum, Univ California)

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This colossal bronze tree stands 65 feet (20 meters) high, filling the mirrored archway of the “Palace of Farmers” (Tatarstan Dept of Food & Agriculture), in Kazan

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Paying a much-requested return visit to this Art Nouveau staircase and landing in the ‘Hotel’ Tassel, a townhouse in Brussels designed by architect Victor Horta in 1893

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17C Flemish artist Michael Sweerts’ realistic portrait of a half-smiling impoverished woman sympathetically depicts her thin hair, blemishes & watering eyes without resorting to caricature or cliché (Head of a Woman, Getty Centre, 1654)

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Italian artist Laura Zuccheri gives us a lesson in soaring perspective in her illustration for The Swords of Glass comic (2016)

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I’m sure that none of you do this ~ but there’s a word that describes the secret habit of acquiring books and then letting them pile up without necessarily ever reading them ~ it’s the Japanese word “tsundoku” (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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It’s hard to escape being drawn in by the compelling gaze of this woman, depicted with extraordinary realism by early 18th century German portraitist Balthasar Denner (Oil on copperplate, Hermitage Museum)

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Over 800 years old, the Friday Mosque is in the oasis city of Herat, lying on the ancient Silk Road in Afghanistan. Herat was submitted for listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004

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2 years

Pages from early 20th-century Sample Book ‘Shades on Feathers’, which displays 143 actual bird feathers of all colours, plus instructions on how to use dyes to achieve the exact colouring

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Only Nature could get away with this ~ my favourite outrageous caterpillar, the spectacular Saturniidae (Marco Fisher)

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Over 100 species of flowers have been identified scattered at the feet of Flora and Venus in Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (1482, at bottom right) ~ suggesting that he took considerable interest in making these depictions of the natural world as realistic as possible

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4 years

Roman glass cups from the Himlingøje burial site in Denmark, from 2nd and 3rd century, found in graves of rich or princely family

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Sarah Bernhardt, or “The Divine Sarah”, was probably the most famous French actress of the 19th century, and was also a talented sculptor, exhibiting at the Paris Salon and other major exhibitions ~ here, at R, After the Tempest / and Death of Ophelia

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3 years

Sometimes, less is more ~ soaring pointed arches and ribbed groin vaults highlight the nave and side aisle of the minimalist Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen. Architect PV Jensen-Klint, 1920s (photo Kim Høltermand)

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4 years

George Hodge spent 43 years as a sailor, starting in 1790 at age 13, and kept this 500-page illustrated diary about life in the “difrint ports & ships” he sailed in. Here are pages showing his self-portrait, the first page and a dismasting

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Examples of the staggering wealth of Greco-Roman floor mosaics, forgotten for 1700 years, and unearthed in recent years at the flood-threatened ancient city of Zeugma, near Turkey/Syria border

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