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For the passionate book readers today, bookcases are considered to be a vital addition to their home furnishing. In case you have a few or dozens of books, then perhaps a nice bookshelf is all you …

The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium.

Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 61 x 74 cm. Source: nettle-pokrzywa.blogspot.ro/2012/09/john-atkinson-grimsha.... I have changed the light, contrast and colors of the original photo.

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Winged Victory, Nike of Samothrace, 190 BC. A highly detailed exact miniature of the large statue from antiquity, which is housed in the Musee du Louvre, Paris. This item is entirely handmade in England, so there are no customs charges within the EU. The marble statue represents the goddess as she descends from the skies to the triumphant Armies. Sculptured arts have been commissioned to re-create this beautiful marble Nike, exact to the full sized original. Every mark, and every chip from centuries of wear and war, has been duplicated throughout, including the restoration done over the years, including the frame on the statue’s outstretched right wing, which is a symmetric plaster version of the original left one, as it was missing along with the head and arms when unearthed in 1863. Before she lost her arms, which have never been recovered, Nike's right arm is believed to have been raised, her hand cupped round her mouth to deliver the shout of Victory. Despite its significant damage and incompleteness, the marble Victory statue is held to be one of the great surviving masterpieces of sculpture from the Hellenistic Period, and from the entire Greco-Roman era. The statue shows a mastery of form and movement which has impressed critics and artists since its discovery. It is considered one of the Louvre's greatest treasures, and since the late 19th century it has been displayed in the most dramatic fashion, at the head of the sweeping Daru staircase, within the museum. The work is notable for its convincing rendering of a pose where violent motion and sudden stillness meet, for its graceful balance and for the rendering of the figure's draped garments, compellingly depicted as if rippling in a strong sea breeze. Check out our website for the world's largest sculpture collection. www.marble-sculpture.com

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A look at some strange and bizarre things from the past.

When colour photographs were first invented, the French millionaire and philanthropist Albert Kahn poured his entire fortune into hiring a team of photographers, which he dispatched to more than 50 countries - his aim was to make a record of all the people of the world. In Britain they captured a nation on the brink of historical change. See the amazing pictures here

In these bizarre photos, the mothers have been basically erased.

Autumn EVENTS. We have reached that time again when the summer holidays are a distant memory

1. A Weapon of Mass Instruction Artist Raul Lemesoff, who took an old military 1979 Ford Falcon and gave it a bit of a make-over, says it's his "contribution to peace through literature". The tank-shaped mobile library that carries over 900 books, known as "Arma De Instruccion Masiva" – Weapon of

There is little public documentation about the private lives of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when their social transactions took place ...

As you can imagine, I collect a lot of images from the internet. And sometimes, I need to unload them to clear some space on the old laptop. So this is me, doing that, in a meaningful way. I hope you'll find the theme of today's spring clean larger than life... Above: A security guard walking

Preparing for the Ball, by Romanian painter Viktor Schramm (1900). In private collection.

Theodor Kittelsen, Mother, there's an Old Woman Coming. Mellom 1894 og1896

19thC; Hawarden C, D 328, 5 Princes Gardens, Isabella Grace, c. 1861

No need for your reading glasses on this one, but perhaps some knowledge of 18th century Spanish might be useful. This is one of a collection of twelve giant books made in 1715 by a priest in New Spain (as in Spanish colonial Mexico), currently being preserved by the library of the National Autonomo

A blog about Interior Design with focus on French style and other Old World aesthetics.

These are the last color shots of Paris during the Belle Époque period — a time when leading literary figures and artists, like Picasso and Gertrude Stein, were beginning to lay down roots in the...

Some of the earliest photos of Victorian women have come to light in a revealing album of prints from the pioneering days of photography. The set of pictures taken by Lady Clementina Hawarden, one of Britain's first female photographers, is set to fetch £150,000 at auction.

Inspired by the old Dutch masters, the occult and oriental illustration, Moscow-based artist Denis Forkas creates mystical paintings and illustrations.

This is one of the best abandoned buildings you will find in Washington State.

Grade I-listed Harmondsworth Barn, west London, joins the likes of Stonehenge, Osborne House and parts of Hadrian's Wall in the national collection of historic sites and monuments under the guardianship of English Heritage.

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Frances Brooke, Lady Whitmore, peinte par Peter Lely pour la collection des Windsor Beauties Célébrer la beauté féminine. Une activité à laquelle s’adonnent volontiers les plus grandes familles souveraines !

Call number: P1 / 595 Digital ID: a4215094 Format: cabinet photoprint Find more detailed information about this photograph: acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemI... Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au

beautifuldavinci: Hohenluft [High Air], 1928, Rudolph Koppitz, The Royal Photographic Society Collection © National Media Museum, Bradford / SSPL. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Jane Perkins calls herself a "re-maker" and the art she creates is made with repurposed ordinary objects like buttons and other found plastic objects. She

Продолжаю публикацию слайд-шоу, собранных из работ фотографов, на которых запечатлены наши современницы. А также публикую и сами снимки. Впервые они были опубликованы на фотосайте в 2010 году.