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Julia Soboleva, “Thin red thread”

Antonio Canova - Cupid and Psyche (1805) Musée du Louvre

Bronze hydria (water jar), Greek 4th century BCE, bronze, H. 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Coucher de soleil avec la pompe Wallace et les terrasses de Bagatelle by  Pinckney Marcius-Simons (American, 1867–1909)

Thomas Jackson, Silk no. 10, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 2025

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Napoleon in Egypt by Robert Alexander Hillingford

The Testaments – Margaret Atwood

Dickens was one of the greatest Victorian novelists, with a reputation that endures. His best-known works include Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843) and Great Expectations (1861). His novels are renowned for their vivid portrayal of the Victorian class system, and address issues of injustice and social deprivation. Dickens was friends with the artist of this portrait, Daniel Maclise. ‘Maclise has made another face of me,’ Dickens wrote, ‘which all people say is astonishing.’ An engraving of it was later used as the frontispiece to the first edition of Nicholas Nickleby (1839).

Napoleon's Art in Chinese Mainland in the 1980s

Laurent Grasso (French, 1972) - Studies Into the Past (2023)

Tianshu Zhang (Chinese, 1992) - Untitled (2023)

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Fog (1807) by Caspar David Friedrich