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Voltaire
Art: A mirror of Society
The Anatomy Lesson ~ Rambrandt (CA 1632)
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Dusk
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Let the evening come
A Wall
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Ground frost on a sunny Fall morning
A jogger's view
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All overgrown by cunning moss
"Putting Out-system"
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The Siege of Vienna, 1683
The Ottoman Slave Tax
Window view
Poussin:
Young Woman with a Water Jug
Haul away
Green field
Remington Portable
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Marx
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Evening
Bark
Graffette
Mikhail Lermontov
Stream
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Punishing Serfs
This seventeenth-century illustration from Olearius’s famous ‘Travels to Moscovy’ suggests what eastern serfdom really meant. The scene is set of eastern Poland. There, according to Olearius, a common command of the lord was, “Beat him till the skin falls from the flesh.” (University of Illinois, Champaign)
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