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Crusades

CRUSADES

French Revolution 1789

FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789

Napoleon Bonaparte

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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18th and 19th century erotic books owned by author and art collector Roger Peyrefitte were auctioned off and dispersed in 1981.Engravings from a 1789 special edition of "La Pucelle d'Orleans",Voltaire's blas- phemous satyre about the life and loves of Joan of Arc.
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18th and 19th century erotic books owned by author and art collector Roger Peyr...

18th and 19th century erotic books owned by author and art collector Roger Peyrefitte were auctioned off and dispersed in 1981.Engravings from a 1789 special edition of "La Pucelle d'Orleans",Voltaire's blas- phemous satyre about the life and loves of Joan of Arc.
#33010669

18th and 19th century erotic books owned by author and art collector Roger Peyr...

18th and 19th century erotic books owned by author and art collector Roger Peyrefitte were auctioned off and dispersed in 1981.Engravings from a 1789 special edition of "La Pucelle d'Orleans",Voltaire's blas- phemous satyre about the life and loves of Joan of Arc.
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18th and 19th century erotic books owned by author and art collector Roger Peyr...

Potiphar's Wife,costume sketch for Richard Strauss' ballet and mimodrame "Josephslegende" - Legend of Joseph,1914. Watercolour,crayon and gold on paper.
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Potiphar's Wife,costume sketch for Richard Strauss' ballet and mimodrame "Josep...

Potiphar,costume sketch for Richard Strauss' ballet and mimodrame "Josephslegende" - Legend of Joseph,1914. Watercolour,crayon and gold on paper.
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Potiphar,costume sketch for Richard Strauss' ballet and mimodrame "Josephslegen...

'Picture Puzzle of Jonah and the Whale and a Squatting Peasant', 1537. The anamorphic, or distorted, view in this large, dated print shows Jonah stepping out from an imaginative whale but the landscape is not distorted. In the foreground, the stretched inscription reads, WAS SICHST DV? ('What do you see?'), with the date and a small printer's name. To 'see' the subject correctly, a viewpoint from the lower right-hand corner is required. A squatting and defecating peasant then appears. The vulgarity is disguised by the distortion, but the goat on the far left about to charge the naked buttocks gives a clue to the woodcut's underlying peculiarity. PD, 1880-7-10-643 (CD I. 552,9)
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'Picture Puzzle of Jonah and the Whale and a Squatting Peasant', 1537. The anamo...

Samson killing the Lion. Around 1497/98. Woodcut, 382 x 278mm. (monogrammed)
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Samson killing the Lion. Around 1497/98. Woodcut, 382 x 278mm. (monogrammed)

The Battle of the Angels (Four avenging Angels of the Euphrates). The Revelation of Saint John (Apocalypse, VII. Figure). Around 1496/98. Woodcut, 393 x 285mm. (monogrammed)
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The Battle of the Angels (Four avenging Angels of the Euphrates). The Revelation...

Archangel Michael fighting the Dragon. The Revelation of Saint John (Apocalypse, X. Figure). Around 1498. Woodcut, 394 x 285mm. (monogrammed) Apo 12: 7 - 9
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Archangel Michael fighting the Dragon. The Revelation of Saint John (Apocalypse,...

The Penitent (King David Penitent). Dated 1510. Woodcut, 194 x 133mm. (monogrammed)
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The Penitent (King David Penitent). Dated 1510. Woodcut, 194 x 133mm. (monogra...

Expulsion from the Paradise. (Small Passion, 3). Dated 1510. Woodcut, 126 x 98mm. (monogrammed)
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Expulsion from the Paradise. (Small Passion, 3). Dated 1510. Woodcut, 126 x 98m...

The Fall of Man. (Small Passion, 2). Around 1510. Woodcut, 128 x 98mm. (monogrammed)
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The Fall of Man. (Small Passion, 2). Around 1510. Woodcut, 128 x 98mm. (monogr...