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1 week ago

Shell shocked: Strawberry Hill plans to rebuild Horace Walpole's lost garden seat

Strawberry Hill House is fundraising to restore Horace Walpole's iconic Shell Seat, an eighteenth-century garden feature designed by Richard Bentley and carved by William Robinson that was lost after 1842.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Did Leonardo da Vinci paint a nude Mona Lisa? I may have just solved this centuries-old mystery

An 18th-century British engraving by John Boydell depicted the Mona Lisa partly nude and circulated widely as libertine decor linked to Houghton Hall's collection.
Writing
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

The delightful history behind serendipity suggests it's not mere luck

Serendipity is the capacity to find valuable, unanticipated things and can be cultivated as a skill rather than dismissed as pure luck.
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