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“IT IS INDEED TRUE THAT ART IS OMNIPRESENT IN NATURE, AND THE TRUE ARTIST IS HE WHO CAN BRING IT OUT.” —ALBRECHT DÜRER 

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INDULGING IN SOME FORBIDDEN FRUIT…

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Imagine if your ex was a spirit photographer…

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If this 1908 photograph reminds you of a certain Dutch painter…you’re right! Photographer Guido Rey was inspired by Vermeer’s 1600s compositions.

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COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL IN THE 1860S. German Photographer Albert Frisch spent years exploring and documenting the native inhabitants, flora, and fauna of Brazil and Colombia before ultimately publi...

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One painting, front, back, and in different light. Notice the glossy parts? This was painted with two types of house paint that have different levels of gloss. Artists in Brazil in the 1950’s...

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How did the Egyptians, and then the Romans, manage to transport and erect such massive monuments without modern technology? While the specifics of obelisk transportation in ancient Egypt—as ...

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Detail from the Moon Represented as a Woman on Horseback, made shortly after 1464 .

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The squad gathers to analyze that parcel that just came in from your betrothed.

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IT’S CAPRICORN SEASON! The “sea goats” born in Capricorn are often described as responsible, organized, and ambitious, but also pessimistic, unforgiving, insatiable, and bossy.  Does t...

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MOROCCO IN THE 1960S A photographer and practicing architect, Wim Swaan illustrated eighteen books on the art and architecture of cultures around the world. About 860 digitized images from the...

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The back of this stereograph made between 1865-1870 reads: No. 190 Monument Series—The Sentinel. The Monument region is gaining a world-wide reputation as among the greatest geological wonde...

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