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• Medieval Monks Did What?

  20-04-2025 22:00 via theguardian.com
  In the Ireland of a thousand years ago, monks fleeing the Vikings spread their beautifully decorated version of Christianity to Europe. Some of those manuscripts survived an intensely brutal, violent millennium. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

  20-04-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; V&A, LondonBritish royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera. And a blockbuster Cartier show of jewels, maharajas and movie stars rises above the gossipThe future Edward VII looks out from a white marble bust at the start of The Edwardians: Age of Elegance. His eyes have a familiar exophthalmic bulge beneath heavy Saxe-Coburg lids. The sculptor has turned the prince’s
  
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• The big picture: Wolfgang Tillmans’s tender image of two boys off the coast of Denmark

  20-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The German photographer captures a moment of tranquility one Scandinavian summer“Who has known the ocean?” asked the pioneering American marine biologist, conservationist and writer Rachel Carson in her groundbreakingessay Undersea, published in the Atlantic in 1937. With our “earth-bound senses”, neither you nor I can grasp how profoundly the ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is shallow and deep, light and dark, placid and chaotic, benign and dangerous – filled wit
  
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