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Spanish librarian and archaeologist Manuel Esteve trying on a Corinthian helmet discovered at a site in Jerez, Spain, circa 1938

Samuel Beckett wrote most of his best-known works in French because, he said, it was easier to write “without style.”

Obama in the White House, with 'Butterfly' by Susan Rothenberg in the backdrop.

A Serbian girl watches NATO aircraft in the sky over Pale, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. September 1995

The hand of Miles Davis

Gloucestershire artist Victoria Rees has painted a local farmer every week for 13 years.

Ivo Andric at home. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, beating John Steinbeck, JRR Tolkien and EM Forster

Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with a Nude Eve Babitz. Photo by Julian Wasser, 1963