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THE ANGEL

  THE ANGEL BRINGS THE SOUL OF SAINT AMBROSE TO HEAVEN – SILVER BAS-RELIEF OF THE VUOLVINIO ALTAR – CIRCA 835 – BASILICA OF SAINT AMBROSE, MILAN The funeral processions hold a great significance for important personages: the body of Saint Ambrose is displayed on a catafalque: a sumptuous pall …

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FEDERICO FELLINI/1

  La voce della luna is one of Federico Fellini’s most important films: so important that it received approval, success, honours, the love of the audience and the admiration of the critics, to authorise the desire to deepen the knowledge of it, capture images of it and conserve its memory …

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HAIDA

The populations traditionally lived in numerous villages along the coast and the rivers inland. Often the large and extended families dwelt together in longhouses, lined up on the beach. The villages, of a permanent nature, where inhabited for generations or even longer. People would depart only for hunting and fishing, …

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HOLLYWOOD

  THE GLOBE STORY./1 On September 15, 1982, at the end of  their work day, the staff of Globe Photos in New York was almost out of the building when news of the death of Princess Grace of Monaco reached them. To the man, they stepped back into the elevator and …

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