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Planks
Planks Motionless planks, lively as water. Photo of the week: Chalet-wood, Chesières, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland 2025
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Life is a celebration
Life is a celebration Boys and girls, after spending a day together in the woods. Photo of the week: Boys and girls, Pokhara, Nepal 1996
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Life is hard
Life is hard Children burdened with the daily task of fetching water. Photo of the week: Boys fetching water, Pokhara, Nepal 1996
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The encounter
The encounter Marie d’Orléans died shortly after the birth of her son in 1839. She was 26 years old. During her short life as Princess of Orleans and, after her marriage, as Duchess of Württemberg, she devoted herself to sculpture with considerable success. In the museum of the Monastère royal de Brou, I was struck…
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Dynamic white
Dynamic white Ryman examined meticulously what he could do with, mainly, white paint on differently coloured surfaces. He himself would not easily give a title like ‘Dynamic white’ to a painting of his. He was very much aware of the materials he used, the kind of paint, the surface, the visible mounting to the wall,…
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Love and devotion
Love and devotion Mother and child: the universal feeling of love.Praying nun: the religious feeling of devotion.The feelings may be close to each other but they are not the same. Photos of the week: statues of Mary in the chapel of Besanceuil, and of a devotional nun in Eglise Saint-Thomas, Cuiseaux, France 2025
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O Holy Night
O Holy Night Nativity scene in Chartres cathedral. Photo of the week: Christmas at Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Chartres, France 2024
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Bleu de Chartres
Bleu de Chartres When you enter Chartres Cathedral, the blue light in the stained-glass windows immediately catches your eye: the famous blue of Chartres. There are many different colours in the stained glass, red, yellow, green, white … but it is the intensity of the blue that dominates the image. The photo shows a detail…
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Curiosity
Curiosity Feeling small under their inquisitive looks. Photo of the week: Petit Veyriat, Foissiat, France 2025
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The A of Achilles
The A of Achilles In 1962, Cy Twombly created two paintings “about” Achilles: “Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus” and “The Vengeance of Achilles”, depicted here. In both paintings, as is often the case with Twombly, the title of the work is a fairly inconspicuous part of the composition. What is all the more striking…
