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How Important Are Certificates of Authenticity?

How Important Are Certificates of Authenticity? Some publishers (and galleries) provide comprehensive Certificates of Authentication with the art they sell. These authentications give information that may include the name of the artist, title of the work, year the editions were issued, the total edition size, the number of proofs, the name of the publisher and/or …

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Tattershall Castle

Tattershall Castle Tattershall Castle posses one of the most splendid of later medieval tower houses. It has justly been described as the finest piece of medieval brickwork in England. Ralph, Lord Cromwell, erected this tower in the years 1434046. Rising over a hundred feet to the top of its corner turrets, with a view stretching …

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Hedingham Castle

Hedingham Castle The village of Castle Hedingham is dominated by one of the finest keeps. Faced with ashlar masonry brought all the way from Barnack, it is almost perfectly preserved, lacking only its battlements. The sloping plinth and pilaster buttresses are typical Norman motifs but the turrets rising at two opposite corners are a distinctive …

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Venetian Painting At The National Gallery; Ravishingly Beautiful Visions of Religion And Nudity

Venetian Painting At The National Gallery; Ravishingly Beautiful Visions of Religion And Nudity The new show that is installed at The National Gallery of Art, “Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting,” presents us, not only with ravishing beauty, but with the vision of a time when apparently religion and nudity were easygoing …

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Sanibel Island Photos

Sanibel Island Photos Sanibel is a barrier island that lies a few miles off the western coast of Florida, 150 miles northwest of Miami. This place is well-known as one of the perfect vacation destinations in the world perhaps for the fact that Sanibel Island offers the magnificent beauty of unspoiled, white sand beaches that …

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