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Menagerie, Versailles Louis La Vaux, 1663

The menagerie at Versailles, was a royal zoo built for Louis XIV. To the centre of the circular layout was an octagonal viewing pavilion for the King. This looked out into a series of enclosures for the animals which had bounding walls to three sides with open bars facing towards the centre. It is thought that this may have influenced Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon.

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Gustav Klimt Garden Path with Hens 1916 Oil on canvas destroyed by fire, 1945

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Residential building, built in the 1970s. Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: Stefano Perego

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Cagliari, Malta, Rhodes and Famagusta. 1588.

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The Royal Society accepted James Cook to convey the scientific staff of the expedition to observe the transit of Venus due to occur on 3rd June 1769. Cook left England on Aug. 12, 1768 and, after the momentous discovery of New South Wales, arrived at Otaheite [i.e. Tahiti] on April 13, 1769 in plenty of time to build an observatory to carefully measure the transit across the Sun’s sphere on June 3, an event which occurs only twice within 8 years once every 120 years. Relief is shown by hachures and pictorially for ground cover.

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Attributed to William Larkin - HALF-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF A LADY

Source: Sotheby’s.com

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Textile ( India ), 1750-1800 cotton.

Source: cooperhewitt.org

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Château de Sarzay

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Asklepieion spring house, Acropolis, Athens, Greece

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Palazzo Angelo Giovanni Spinola. The World of Interiors, April 2022. Photo - Massimo Listri

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Mycenean Spring Fountain, Akropolis, Athens, Greece

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Pablo Picasso - ÈTUDE POUR “DEJEUNER SUR L’HERBE” II

Source: Sotheby’s.com

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Extendable bamboo chair. China, Qing dynasty, early 1800s

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RMS Titanic’s propeller dwarfing its makers, 1911

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Casa Insinga

Umberto Riva

https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/details/collection/object/447419

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Stigmatization of St. Francis, 1300, Giotto Di Bondone

Medium: fresco

https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/stigmatization-of-st-francis-1300

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Motivos do Sul. Foto van Artur Pastor in het stadje Estói, ergens in de Portugese Alentejo, ergens in de jaren 50/60.