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  In 1960 La dolce vita, film/symbol for nearly a decade, offered the splendid and disenchanted vision of an Italian amorality: the vulgarity of the new wealthy and the extinction of an old aristocracy into futility, the degeneration of a religious faith into a spectacular superstition, the aggressive brutality of …

  THE ELECT OF THE LORD, THE NEW JERUSALEM AND THE GUARDIAN ANGELS – MOSAIC OF THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH DATABLE BETWEEN 817 AND 824 – CHURCH OF SAINT PRAXEDIS, ROME The hieratic composure of the IX century apparel remains faithful to the byzantine tradition. The women distinguished themselves by their …

The Cheyenne are a tribe from the northern Plains. Speaking the Algonquian tongue, but a search for their origins leads to the Great Lakes region, from whence they were forced to move, by the Chippewa and the Lakota, to lands further south. They had two types of dwellings: the wintery …

  THE GLOBE STORY/2 The history of Globe Photos, one of the world’s largest photo agencies, covers six decades, a period of time during which the use of editorial photography in magazines  and newpapers and books and on television has grown and changed dramatically. These changes have been reflected in …

A tumult betwixt the apples. THE ORCHARD GEORGE LEPAPE 1912