- Banned books:
- Wikipedia's book/ISBN search tool
- ¿Do the blind prefer braille or audiobooks? (supposedly audiobooks because of significantly lower prices)
- The declining frequency of elevator music
Art
- List of stolen paintings over >$1,000,000
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Painting: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
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Painting: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
by Jacques-Louis David
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Painting: The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai
- Painting: Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn
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Painting: Leif Erikson Discovers America by Hans Dahl
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Painting: Fjord with Sailing Boat by Hans Dahl
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Painting: Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David
A scene from a Roman legend about a seventh-century BC dispute between two warring cities, Rome & Alba Longa, and stresses the importance of patriotism & masculine self-sacrifice for one's country. Instead of the two cities sending their armies to war, they agree to choose 3 men from each city; the victor in that fight will be the victorious city. From Rome, three brothers from a Roman family, the Horatii, agree to end the war by fighting three brothers from a family of Alba Longa, the Curiatii. The 3 brothers, all of whom appear willing to sacrifice their lives for the good of Rome, are shown stretching their hands towards their father who holds their swords out for them. Of the 3 Horatii brothers, only 1 will survive the confrontation. However, it is the surviving brother who is able to kill the other 3 fighters from Alba Longa. Aside from the 3 brothers depicted, in the bottom right corner, a woman crying while sitting down. She is Camilla, a sister of the Horatii brothers, who is also betrothed to one of the Curiatii fighters, and thus she weeps in the realisation that, whatever happens, she will lose someone she loves. Seeing her weep, the surviving brother, Publius, kills Camilla for weeping over the enemy.
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Painting: The School of Athens
by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
- Mise en abyme: Placing a copy of an image within itself (i.e. visually recursive). (known as the "Droste effect" when used in non-art)
Image credits
- Painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is public domain.
- Painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps is public domain.
- Painting Oath of the Horatii is public domain.
- Painting Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee is public domain.
- Painting The Great Wave off Kanagawa is public domain.
- Painting The School of Athens is public domain.
- Painting Fjord with Sailing Boat is public domain.
- Painting Leif Erikson Discovers America is public domain.