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This is an antique curule style or X-frame folding chair, most likely inspired by Renaissance or medieval designs and probably intended as a ceremonial or high-status seat.

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A clock is a river made of brass. Both measure the same thing, and both will outlast the man who built them.

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ART - AN ANSWER TO DESPAIR

Amid war, a pandemic, crisis and decay, Venice gave birth to a new vision of humanity: the #Renaissance.

Artists and thinkers forged beauty, meaning and hope from hardship and longing.

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Une date apprise par cœur à l'école ! Quel roi remporta la bataille de Marignan en 1515 ?

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Adding hashtags here because I don't know where else to add them. #earlymodern #medievalsky #Renaissance #bookhistory #newarticle

The person who finishes everything lacks the courage to start something truly difficult.

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Le nouveau visage des lycéens dans les médias ?

Sauf qu’il n’est plus lycéen.

Sauf qu’il a été stagiaire auprès d’une députée Renaissance.

Sauf qu’il est membre de Renaissance et qu’il a travaillé chez Minerva, un ancien conseiller en communication de Gabriel Attal.

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"Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow."
Notebooks (Richter) §121

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Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — a Renaissance icon, famed for her enigmatic smile and sfumato. Painted in the 1500s and now in the Louvre, inspiring centuries of study. buff.ly/rMY7ggF #LeonardoDaVinci #Renaissance

A juicy and reverent #novel about a sparkling time in #history - the #Italian #Renaissance from the perspective of a determined young female glassmaker on the island of #Murano in #Venice. The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier #bookstadon #bookreview #HistoricalFiction