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Today, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci's brilliance endures 500 years after his death.


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2019-05-03

"L'Escarpolette" ('The Swing') by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806) painted from 1767-1768. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the rococo era.

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2019-01-04

Louis XIV in costume for the "Ballet Royal de la Nuit" (1653). This court ballet lasted 12 hours, beginning at sundown and lasting until morning, and consisted of 45 dances.

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2018-12-31

Concept artworks of "Bioshock Infinite" (directed by , developed by Irrational Games, published by in 2013).

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2018-12-13

Rush's Tranquiliser Chair was used to remove sensory perception.

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2018-11-22

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "This Side of Paradise" (1920) showed the disillusionment and moral disintegration experienced by so many in the United States after WW1...

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2018-11-21

A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over" – "Let Us Prey." The Tweed Ring depicted by Thomas Nast in a wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly, 1871.

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2018-11-19

An item on display at the Rebel Women exhibition, which aspires to ‘trace the early activism of women’s rights’.

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2018-11-13

Illustration by Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849) for a classical Japanese kaidan story Yotsuya from the series "One Hundred Tales" (Hyaku monogatari). It shows a Chōchin-obake (提灯お化け).

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2018-10-17

Compression of arteries in the arm and leg to reduce blood loss during surgery.

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2018-10-14

"Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent" by Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741 - 1825). The subject has been interpreted in relation to Fuseli's support for the French Revolution, where the serpent could represent the Ancien Régime.

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2018-10-01

The Great Garroting Panic of 1862. It was believed that, a band of criminals were stalking the capital, garroting anyone unfortunate enough to come into their path.

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2018-09-17

"Les Oceanides Les Naiades de la mer", 1860s by Gustave Doré (1832 1883).

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2018-09-16

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations.

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2018-09-16

Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes, 1800–02 painted by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

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2018-09-06

Print (c. 1902) by Albert Robida. Paris in the year 2000...

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2018-08-26

Despite common belief, Bram Stoker was not the creator of vampires. The belief in vampires has existed all throughout recorded history, since the beginning of time. (painting by Edvard Munch)

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2018-08-19

Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter. He is considered as one of the greatest masters of marine art.

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2018-08-16