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Vandalized Art list. Combo of EB owned illustration (top) and parent Asset 182294. 4 of 11 The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez was hit with a meat cleaver by Mary Richardson

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Painting palette with oil paints and brushes. Rainbow colored paints, arts and entertainment

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Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel

Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries

Sculpture of woman before restoration (left) and after restoration on the exterior of an office building in Palencia, Spain. (art restoration)

5 Art Restorations Gone Wrong

Art texture. Close-up of yellow abstract painting. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society

10 Modernist Art Movements

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Saint Lucia Day. Young girl wears Lucia crown (tinsel halo) with candles. Holds Saint Lucia Day currant laced saffron buns (lussekatter or Lucia's cats). Observed December 13 honor virgin martyr Santa Lucia (St. Lucy). Luciadagen, Christmas, Sweden

7 Winter Solstice Celebrations From Around the World

Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)

6 Cultures That Recognize More than Two Genders

Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and autodidact.

6 Interesting Facts about Srinivasa Ramanujan

The Prado Museum facade at the Diego Velaszquez memorial. Established in 1819, the museum is considered the best collection of Spanish art and one of the world's finest collections of European art. Madrid, Spain

20 Paintings You Have to Visit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid

Four year old boy with grandfather and father lighting Hanukkah menorah. Photo taken on: December 21st, 2009

Which Is Correct: Hanukkah or Chanukah?

Panama Canal infographic

Timeline and Map of the Panama Canal

The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

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Henri Loyrette: Facts & Related Content

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Born	May 31, 1952 (age 72) • Neuilly-sur-Seine • France

Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889

Hippolyte Taine

French critic and historian

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon

French artist

Philip Hendy

British art historian and curator

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

French historian and political writer

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

French biologist

Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix

French artist

Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons

Alphonse de Lamartine

French poet, historian, and statesman

Fernand Braudel

French historian and educator

Adolphe Thiers

Adolphe Thiers

French statesman and historian

Marc Bloch

French historian

Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

French historian

Jules Michelet, detail of an oil painting by Thomas Couture; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.

Jules Michelet

French historian

François Guizot

François Guizot

French politician and historian

Barnave, Antoine

Antoine Barnave

French politician

Hilaire Belloc

British author

Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Edgar Quinet

French historian and poet

Jacques-Auguste de Thou

French statesman and historian

Ollivier, photograph by P. Petit; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Émile Ollivier

French statesman

Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.

Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné

French soldier and author

Raymond Aron

French sociologist