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  • Immigrant children waving American flags, photograph, c. 1910, in the National Immigration Museum, in the main building on Ellis Island, the immigration processing centre for the United States from 1892 to 1954, at the mouth of the Hudson river in New York City, NY, USA. Ellis Island and its Immigration Museum are part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and are managed by the National Park Authority. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculptural group of mermaids and children at the back of the statue of Ceres, patron goddess of Rome and of agriculture, reclining on the earth and balancing a vase of flowers on her head, in the Garden of Bomarzo, also known as the Sacro Bosco or Sacred Grove, or the Parco dei Mostri or Park of the Monsters, a monumental Mannerist park complex, c. 1550, made by Pier Francesco Orsini, or Vicino, 1523–1585, Duke of Orsini, designed by Pirro Ligorio, 1512-83, with sculptures by Simone Moschino, 1533-1610, in Bomarzo, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. The gardens are in a wood at the bottom of a valley beneath the Castle of Orsini, with many large sculptures, small buildings and inscribed poems. The layout of the garden is chaotic, in contrast with formal Renaissance gardens, and it has a surrealistic air. The garden was restored in the 1970s and is now a major tourist attraction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children's playground in the Placa del Sol, in the Gracia district, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The square was built in 1840 and is surrounded by 19th century buildings including some in Catalan Modernist style. Gracia was an independent municipality 1626-1897 before being incorporated into the city of Barcelona. It is a vibrant district with wide boulevards and squares, with many boutiques and galleries. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children of Ute hunters, who guided and fed Spanish explorers who first arrived in the mid-1700s, photograph, from the Anasazi Heritage Center, an archaeological museum of Native American pueblo and hunter-gatherer cultures, Dolores, Colorado, USA. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children playing at an old street fountain in Moulay Idriss, Meknes-Tafilalet, Northern Morocco. The town sits atop 2 hills on Mount Zerhoun and was founded by Moulay Idriss I, who arrived in 789 AD and ruled until 791, bringing Islam to Morocco and founding the Idrisid Dynasty. It is an important pilgrimage site for muslims. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jim the New Yorker, Jeanne the Russian doll, Enzo the Italian and Felipe the Mexican (left-right), Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ayako the Japanese, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mahatma the Indian, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rania the Arab, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ali the Tunisian, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Felipe the Mexican, Ali the Tunisian and Rania the Arab (left-right), Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Maria Carmen the Spaniard, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Antonio the Brazilian, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Enzo the Italian, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jim the New Yorker, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Constantine has been ordered by doctors to bathe in the fresh blood of 3000 children. A soldier holds a young boy in the basin while another stands guard with his sword and a queue of naked children. A messenger arrives on the left with word from Constantine that the children are to be spared. Section of the preparation for bloodshed, from the Life of St Sylvester stained glass window, 1210-25, in the ambulatory of Chartres Cathedral, Eure-et-Loir, France. St Sylvester was Pope 314-35 AD during the reign of Constantine the Great (306-37). Chartres cathedral was built 1194-1250 and is a fine example of Gothic architecture. Most of its windows date from 1205-40 although a few earlier 12th century examples are also intact. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stained glass window of the Children of God, by Madame Deanna de Marigny, with Jesus and children, a ribbon of flowers, musical instruments and the crossed keys of heaven, commissioned in 1968 by Mayor Michel Buillard and Monsignor Hubert Coppenrath, in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Papeete, or Cathedrale Notre Dame de Papeete, planned in 1844 and built in colonial Gothic style 1856-75, on the Rue du General de Gaulle in Papeete, on the island of Tahiti, in the Windward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Jesus with 2 children, from the stained glass window of the Children of God, by Madame Deanna de Marigny, commissioned in 1968 by Mayor Michel Buillard and Monsignor Hubert Coppenrath, in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Papeete, or Cathedrale Notre Dame de Papeete, planned in 1844 and built in colonial Gothic style 1856-75, on the Rue du General de Gaulle in Papeete, on the island of Tahiti, in the Windward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marie de Medici, queen of France, with her children, fresco, by Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano, 1611-89, commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici, from the Fasti Medicei, or Glories of the Medici family, series, in the internal courtyard at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The children are Louis XIII, Don Gastone, the princess Nicola, Enrichetta Maria queen of England and Maria Cristina Duchess of Savoy, with her dog. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Catherine de Medici with her children, fresco, by Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano, 1611-89, commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici, from the Fasti Medicei, or Glories of the Medici family, series, in the internal courtyard at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The children depicted are Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III, Francesco Ercole Duke of Alencon, Elizabeth Queen of Spain, Claudia Duchess of Lorraine, and Margaret wife of Henry of Navarre. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Catherine de Medici with her children, fresco, detail, by Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano, 1611-89, commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici, from the Fasti Medicei, or Glories of the Medici family, series, in the internal courtyard at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The children depicted are Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III, Francesco Ercole Duke of Alencon, Elizabeth Queen of Spain, Claudia Duchess of Lorraine, and Margaret wife of Henry of Navarre. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marie de Medici, queen of France, with her children, fresco, detail, by Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano, 1611-89, commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici, from the Fasti Medicei, or Glories of the Medici family, series, in the internal courtyard at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The children are Louis XIII, Don Gastone, the princess Nicola, Enrichetta Maria queen of England and Maria Cristina Duchess of Savoy, with her dog. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Kashinkids (left), 2017, street art by Kashink, of 4 children with multiple eyes, painted with children from the Rue du Clos school, on the Rue Albert Marquet, in the Charonne quarter of the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France. Kashink is a female street artist of slavic and hispanic roots, known for her huge bold bright works featuring figures with multiple eyes or Mexican skulls, usually with a political or militant message. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children playing, Beauvais tapestry, detail, after a drawing by Florentin Damoiselet, c. 1665-69, under Louis Himart, 1 of a series of 8 tapestries on children's games made for the Chateau de Versailles and sold at auction during the Revolution, on the first floor at the top of the staircase, in the Palais Brongniart, or Palais de la Bourse, built by Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart 1808-13 and Eloi Labarre 1813-26, on the Place de la Bourse in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. The building housed the Bourse de Paris or Paris Stock Exchange from the late 19th century, and Euronext Paris from 2000, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children playing, Beauvais tapestry, detail, after a drawing by Florentin Damoiselet, c. 1665-69, under Louis Himart, 1 of a series of 8 tapestries on children's games made for the Chateau de Versailles and sold at auction during the Revolution, on the first floor at the top of the staircase, in the Palais Brongniart, or Palais de la Bourse, built by Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart 1808-13 and Eloi Labarre 1813-26, on the Place de la Bourse in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. The building housed the Bourse de Paris or Paris Stock Exchange from the late 19th century, and Euronext Paris from 2000, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Second tapestry of children gardening, wool, Flemish or French, late 17th - early 18th century, copied from an original series made at the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1664, in the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. The subject of children gardening came from Charles le Brun's decoration of the Pavillon de l'Aurore at the Chateau de Sceaux. Taken by the Nazis during WWII, these tapestries were in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld 1940-48, were returned to France after Liberation and given to the Bourges museum in 1960. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tapestry of children gardening, wool, Flemish or French, late 17th - early 18th century, copied from an original series made at the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1664, in the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. The subject of children gardening came from Charles le Brun's decoration of the Pavillon de l'Aurore at the Chateau de Sceaux. Taken by the Nazis during WWII, these tapestries were in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld 1940-48, were returned to France after Liberation and given to the Bourges museum in 1960. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General view of the Tophet (children's graveyard), Carthage, Tunisia, pictured on January 27, 2008, in the afternoon. Carthage was founded in 814 BC by the Phoenicians who fought three Punic Wars against the Romans over this immensely important Mediterranean harbour. The Romans finally conquered the city in 146 BC. Subsequently it was conquered by the Vandals and the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage. The Tophet was used from 7th century BC until the fall of Carthage. The name and excavations suggest that children were sacrificed here. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Low angle view of commemorative stelae under vaulted Roman foundations in the Tophet (children's graveyard), Carthage, Tunisia, pictured on January 27, 2008, in the afternoon. Carthage was founded in 814 BC by the Phoenicians who fought three Punic Wars against the Romans over this immensely important Mediterranean harbour. The Romans finally conquered the city in 146 BC. Subsequently it was conquered by the Vandals and the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage. The Tophet was used from 7th century BC until the fall of Carthage. The name and excavations suggest that children were sacrificed here. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • High angle view of the Tophet (children's graveyard), Carthage, Tunisia, pictured on January 27, 2008, in the afternoon. Carthage was founded in 814 BC by the Phoenicians who fought three Punic Wars against the Romans over this immensely important Mediterranean harbour. The Romans finally conquered the city in 146 BC. Subsequently it was conquered by the Vandals and the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage. The Tophet was used from 7th century BC until the fall of Carthage. The name and excavations suggest that children were sacrificed here. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Low angle view of commemorative stelae in the Tophet (children's graveyard), Carthage, Tunisia, pictured on January 27, 2008, in the afternoon. Carthage was founded in 814 BC by the Phoenicians who fought three Punic Wars against the Romans over this immensely important Mediterranean harbour. The Romans finally conquered the city in 146 BC. Subsequently it was conquered by the Vandals and the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage. The Tophet was used from 7th century BC until the fall of Carthage. The name and excavations suggest that the Phoenicians sacrificed children here. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • View from the front of a commemorative stele in the Tophet (children's graveyard), Carthage, Tunisia, pictured on January 27, 2008, in the afternoon. Carthage was founded in 814 BC by the Phoenicians who fought three Punic Wars against the Romans over this immensely important Mediterranean harbour. The Romans finally conquered the city in 146 BC. Subsequently it was conquered by the Vandals and the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage. The Tophet was used from 7th century BC until the fall of Carthage. The name and excavations suggest that children were sacrificed here. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Oblique view of a commemorative stele in the Tophet (children's graveyard), Carthage, Tunisia, pictured on January 27, 2008, in the afternoon. Carthage was founded in 814 BC by the Phoenicians who fought three Punic Wars against the Romans over this immensely important Mediterranean harbour. The Romans finally conquered the city in 146 BC. Subsequently it was conquered by the Vandals and the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage. This commemorative stele depicting a female figure in relief is from the Tophet which was used from 7th century BC until the fall of Carthage. The name Tophet and excavations suggest that children were sacrificed here. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Marie de Medici, queen of France, with her children, fresco, detail, by Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano, 1611-89, commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici, from the Fasti Medicei, or Glories of the Medici family, series, in the internal courtyard at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The children are Louis XIII, Don Gastone, the princess Nicola, Enrichetta Maria queen of England and Maria Cristina Duchess of Savoy, with her dog. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tapestry of children gardening, wool, Flemish or French, late 17th - early 18th century, copied from an original series made at the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1664, in the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. The subject of children gardening came from Charles le Brun's decoration of the Pavillon de l'Aurore at the Chateau de Sceaux. Taken by the Nazis during WWII, these tapestries were in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld 1940-48, were returned to France after Liberation and given to the Bourges museum in 1960. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Femme et enfants au bord de la mer, or Woman and children at the seaside, oil painting in Fauvist style, 1915, by Louis Valtat, 1869-1952, in the Musee d'Art Moderne de Troyes, inaugurated 1982, in the former Episcopal Palace, built 16th and 17th centuries, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. The museum holds French painting collections from the mid 19th century to 1960s. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Group portrait of children playing in Ichan Kala, the old city, Khiva, Uzbekistan, pictured on July 5, 2010, in the afternoon. Khiva, ancient and remote, is the most intact Silk Road city. Ichan Kala, its old town, was the first site in Uzbekistan to become a World Heritage Site(1991). Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • General view of children playing in Ichan Kala, the old city, Khiva, Uzbekistan, pictured on July 5, 2010, in the afternoon. Khiva, ancient and remote, is the most intact Silk Road city. Ichan Kala, its old town, was the first site in Uzbekistan to become a World Heritage Site(1991). Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Children's theatre, a puppet theatre set used for performances to children from 1810, in the Palazzo Borromeo, on Isola Madre, the largest of the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The palace was built in the 16th century for the Borromeo family, designed by Pellegrino Pellegrini or Il Tibaldi. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Low angle view of Maison des Enfants (Children's House), Parc Zoologique de Paris, or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris, also known as Vincennes Zoo), 1934, by Charles Letrosne, 12th arrondissement, Paris, France, pictured on August 24, 2011 at midday. In November 2008 the 15 hectare Zoo, part of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History) closed its doors to the public and renovation works will start in September 2011. The Zoo is scheduled to re-open in April 2014. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Sacrifice, Roman relief, marble, 1st century AD, from the Ara Providentiae in the Merida Forum, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The scene depicts a veiled man thought to be Marco Agrippa behind a 3-legged table with children and a priest or camillus, who is opening an incense box, assistants and a double flute player. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mud Woman Rolls On, 2011, sculpture of a Native American woman and her 3 children, made from clay and plant fibre, by Roxanne Swentzell, b. 1962, from the collection of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sacrifice, Roman relief, marble, detail, 1st century AD, from the Ara Providentiae in the Merida Forum, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The scene depicts a veiled man thought to be Marco Agrippa behind a 3-legged table with children and a priest or camillus, who is opening an incense box, assistants and a double flute player. The Roman remains in Merida are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Medea as woman with 2 children, drawing a sword, Gallo-Roman, 1st - 3rd century AD, from a funerary building in the Arles Roman cemetery near the ramparts, excavated in 1782, in the Musee de l'Arles Antique, an archaeological museum built 1995 by Henri Ciriani and extended in 2013, at Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The scene depicts the moment Medea kills her rival Creusa and her 2 sons to punish her husband Jason. The museum is built on the ruins of the Roman Circus, and houses many artefacts from the town's Gallo-Roman history from 1st century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Teatro de Marionetas Cabanyal, La Estrella, a historic children's puppet theatre established in 1995, in the Cabanyal district of Valencia, Spain. As well as the theatre, the building houses a Puppet Museum. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tomb of the Infants John and Blanche of Aragon, children of Alfonso the Old, made in 1380 by Pere Andreu, master of Xativa, in Valencian Gothic style, in the Chapel of the Virgin of Health, originally the Chapterhouse, at the Real Monasterio de Sant Jeroni de Cotalba, a monastery founded in 1388 by the duke of Gandia, Alfons de Vell, and built 14th - 18th centuries in Valencian Gothic, mudejar, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical styles, in Alfauir, Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tomb of the Infants John and Blanche of Aragon, children of Alfonso the Old, made in 1380 by Pere Andreu, master of Xativa, in Valencian Gothic style, in the Chapel of the Virgin of Health, originally the Chapterhouse, at the Real Monasterio de Sant Jeroni de Cotalba, a monastery founded in 1388 by the duke of Gandia, Alfons de Vell, and built 14th - 18th centuries in Valencian Gothic, mudejar, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical styles, in Alfauir, Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children bathing in the pool beneath the Cascade des Anglais, in the Saint-Vincent river valley at Vernet-les-Bains, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. Vernet-les-Bains is a spa town at the foot of Mt Canigou. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted tomb slab with young children (the abbey was also a school) at the burial of a bishop, detail, in the wall of the convent building along the side of the cloister, at the Abbaye Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, a Romanesque Benedictine monastery built 1005-9 under Guifred, Count of Cerdanya, on the slopes of the Pic du Canigou, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. The abbey complex consists of St Mary's or the lower church, and the abbey church of St Martin's or the upper church, and the bell tower. The abbey is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted tomb slab with young children (the abbey was also a school) at the burial of a bishop, detail, in the wall of the convent building along the side of the cloister, at the Abbaye Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, a Romanesque Benedictine monastery built 1005-9 under Guifred, Count of Cerdanya, on the slopes of the Pic du Canigou, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. The abbey complex consists of St Mary's or the lower church, and the abbey church of St Martin's or the upper church, and the bell tower. The abbey is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted tomb slab with young children (the abbey was also a school) at the burial of a bishop, in the wall of the convent building along the side of the cloister, at the Abbaye Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, a Romanesque Benedictine monastery built 1005-9 under Guifred, Count of Cerdanya, on the slopes of the Pic du Canigou, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. The abbey complex consists of St Mary's or the lower church, and the abbey church of St Martin's or the upper church, and the bell tower. The abbey is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted tomb slab with young children (the abbey was also a school), detail, in the wall of the convent building along the side of the cloister, at the Abbaye Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, a Romanesque Benedictine monastery built 1005-9 under Guifred, Count of Cerdanya, on the slopes of the Pic du Canigou, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. The abbey complex consists of St Mary's or the lower church, and the abbey church of St Martin's or the upper church, and the bell tower. The abbey is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted tomb slab with young children (the abbey was also a school), in the wall of the convent building along the side of the cloister, at the Abbaye Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, a Romanesque Benedictine monastery built 1005-9 under Guifred, Count of Cerdanya, on the slopes of the Pic du Canigou, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. The abbey complex consists of St Mary's or the lower church, and the abbey church of St Martin's or the upper church, and the bell tower. The abbey is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Grande Plage, detail of baskets of fish and woman with crying children, watercolour painting on canvas, 1925-35, by Augustin Hanicotte, in an exhibition entitled L’eau à la Bouche, February - May 2020, in the Musee d'Art Moderne de Collioure, in Collioure, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. This large canvas pictures all of daily life unfolding on the beach at Collioure, with fishermen, priests, groups of women, traditional barques catalanes, the Chateau Royal and Fort Saint-Elme. The Collioure Museum was created by the painter Jean Peske in 1934 and has a collection of modern and contemporary art. Collioure is a small town depicted by many artists in the 20th century, on the Vermilion Coast near the Spanish border. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Mary Salome with her children St James and St John, with a half open book as history is being made, on the altar in the Chapelle du Chateau de Montriou, a small Flamboyant Gothic chapel, 15th century, originally attached to the Chateau de Montriou, founded 1484 by Charlotte de Beauvau, daughter of a senechal of Anjou, in Feneu, Maine-et-Loire, France. The altar holds 4 statues of the 3 Marys and St Anne. In the stained glass windows are the coats of arms of the Cassin de la Loge family, of whom the current owners are descendants. The chapel is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statues of the 3 Marys and St Anne, on the altar in the Chapelle du Chateau de Montriou, a small Flamboyant Gothic chapel, 15th century, originally attached to the Chateau de Montriou, founded 1484 by Charlotte de Beauvau, daughter of a senechal of Anjou, in Feneu, Maine-et-Loire, France. The statues depict (left-right) St Anne with her daughter Mary and a closed book; Virgin Mary with Christ child with no book (Christ is the word of God); Mary Salome with her children St James and St John, with a half open book, and Mary of Clopas with her sons James the Lesser, Jude, Joseph and Simon, with an open book. In the stained glass windows are the coats of arms of the Cassin de la Loge family, of whom the current owners are descendants. The chapel contains late 15th century frescoes of the Passion of Christ. The chapel is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Immigrant children waving American flags, photograph, c. 1910, in the National Immigration Museum, in the main building on Ellis Island, the immigration processing centre for the United States from 1892 to 1954, at the mouth of the Hudson river in New York City, NY, USA. Ellis Island and its Immigration Museum are part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and are managed by the National Park Authority. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cockpit Arts building, a social enterprise and creative business incubator at Creekside in Deptford, London, UK. On the wall is the Love Over Gold mural created by Gary Drostle and local school children in 1989, commissioned by Dire Straits. Cockpit was founded in 1986 with 5 units opening in Cockpit Yard in Holborn, and now supports 170 businesses in the Holborn and Deptford sites. Creatives receive training, support and bursaries and work across fields including fine art, ceramics, textiles, illustration, woodwork, bookbinding, leatherwork and jewellery making. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stained glass window of the Le Tailleur family, late 15th century, with (left-right) 2 donors: Isabeau Le Tailleur, wife of Michel Cordier, consul of Moulins 1423-24, presented by a saint; St Gilles with his doe presenting Gilles Le Tailleur, treasurer of Duke Charles I in 1484, and his 6 children; the Virgin; Christ on the cross, and St John, in the Cathedrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation de Moulins, originally built as a Flamboyant Gothic collegiate church in the 15th century, and became a cathedral with a Neo-Gothic nave added by Jean-Baptiste Lassus, Eugene Millet and Paul Selmersheim in the 19th century, at Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The cathedral is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Plaque commemorating Jewish children from the 17th arrondissement deported to concentration camps by the Nazis and Vichy government, in the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Skatepark with children riding scooters and skateboards, in the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Front cover of issue no. 30 of Lisez-Moi Historia, a monthly history magazine, published May 1949, featuring an article on the end of Hitler by A Francois-Poncet, with a painting of Marie Antoinette and her children by Vigee Le Brun on the cover. Historia was created by Jules Tallandier and published 1909-37 and again from 1945. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Praying figures (the king, the queen and their children), from the funerary monument of Francois I, 1494-1547, and Claude of France, 1548-70, in marble, by Pierre Bontemps, 1505-68, commissioned by Henry II, in the Basilique Saint-Denis, Paris, France. The basilica is a large medieval 12th century Gothic abbey church and burial site of French kings from 10th - 18th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children learning about construction methods in the exhibition on the trades and tools of builders, in the Cathedraloscope, a cathedrals interpretation centre on the Place de la Cathedrale in Dol-de-Bretagne, Brittany, France. The museum is next to the Cathedral Saint-Samson and provides information on its history and construction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children learning about construction methods in the exhibition on the trades and tools of builders, in the Cathedraloscope, a cathedrals interpretation centre on the Place de la Cathedrale in Dol-de-Bretagne, Brittany, France. The museum is next to the Cathedral Saint-Samson and provides information on its history and construction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted figures of a couple embracing and 2 children cuddling, beneath 1 of the 8 balconies on the Baroque Palazzo la Rocca, built 1760-80 for the Baron of Sant'Ippolito, Don Saverio la Rocca, on Via Capitano Bocchieri in Ragusa Ibla, in Sicily, Italy. The town is split into the lower and older town of Ragusa Ibla, and the higher upper town of Ragusa Superiore, separated by the Valle dei Ponti. It is built on the site of an ancient city, inhabited by Sicels, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans. In 1693 it was devastated by an earthquake, and was rebuilt in the Baroque style. The town forms part of the Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fresco of children dancing, 1931, by Maurice Guy-Loe, pseudonym of Maurice Guyot, 1898-1991, in the Salon de Musique or Music Room of the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, designed by Lucien Bechmann, 1880-1968, built 1923-35 and inaugurated in 1925, in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. This was the first residence built at CIUP and was influenced by the style of English University colleges at Oxford and consists of 7 pavilions around a garden. The buildings are listed as a historic monument. The CIUP or Cite U was founded in 1925 after the First World War by Andre Honnorat and Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe to create a place of cooperation and peace amongst students and researchers from around the world. It consists of 5,800 rooms in 40 residences, accepting another 12,000 student residents each year. Picture by Manuel Cohen. Further clearances may be requested.
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  • Fresco of a children's choir, 1931, by Maurice Guy-Loe, pseudonym of Maurice Guyot, 1898-1991, in the Salon de Musique or Music Room of the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, designed by Lucien Bechmann, 1880-1968, built 1923-35 and inaugurated in 1925, in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. This was the first residence built at CIUP and was influenced by the style of English University colleges at Oxford and consists of 7 pavilions around a garden. The buildings are listed as a historic monument. The CIUP or Cite U was founded in 1925 after the First World War by Andre Honnorat and Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe to create a place of cooperation and peace amongst students and researchers from around the world. It consists of 5,800 rooms in 40 residences, accepting another 12,000 student residents each year. Picture by Manuel Cohen. Further clearances may be requested.
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  • Curtained beds for children, restored in 1875 by Maurice Ourdou, in the Salle des Povres or Room of the Poor, almost 50m long, with a painted wooden ceiling with dragons' heads and caricatures of local people, in Les Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a charitable almshouse and hospital for the poor, built 1443-57 by Flemish architect Jacques Wiscrer, and founded by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins, in Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France. The hospital was run by the nuns of the order of Les Soeurs Hospitalieres de Beaune, and remained a hospital until the 1970s. The building now houses the Musee de l'Histoire de la Medecine, or Museum of the History of Medicine, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Slave trader selling slaves and their children, mid-19th century, by Eugene Ferdinand Buttura, 1812-52, and Moynet, facsimile of an original in the Musee du Quai Branly, in the Musee d'Aquitaine, Cours Pasteur, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children watering vegetables in El Hort Indignat, an urban allotment project in the El Poblenou district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The industrial neighbourhood fell into decline after the Industrial Revolution, and has recently been redeveloped, triggered by the Olympic Games of 1992, with old factories converted into apartment buildings and offices, resulting in a vibrant, young and artistic community. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children picking squashes in El Hort Indignat, an urban allotment project in the El Poblenou district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The industrial neighbourhood fell into decline after the Industrial Revolution, and has recently been redeveloped, triggered by the Olympic Games of 1992, with old factories converted into apartment buildings and offices, resulting in a vibrant, young and artistic community. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children watering vegetables and gardening in El Hort Indignat, an urban allotment project in the El Poblenou district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The industrial neighbourhood fell into decline after the Industrial Revolution, and has recently been redeveloped, triggered by the Olympic Games of 1992, with old factories converted into apartment buildings and offices, resulting in a vibrant, young and artistic community. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children watering vegetables and gardening in El Hort Indignat, an urban allotment project in the El Poblenou district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The industrial neighbourhood fell into decline after the Industrial Revolution, and has recently been redeveloped, triggered by the Olympic Games of 1992, with old factories converted into apartment buildings and offices, resulting in a vibrant, young and artistic community. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children tending to vegetables in El Hort Indignat, an urban allotment project in the El Poblenou district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The industrial neighbourhood fell into decline after the Industrial Revolution, and has recently been redeveloped, triggered by the Olympic Games of 1992, with old factories converted into apartment buildings and offices, resulting in a vibrant, young and artistic community. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Woman and children drinking at the Sebilj, a public fountain in Ottoman style made from wood on a stone base, built 1891, in Bascarsija Square, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Behind is the 16th century Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque. The square is also called Pigeon Square as people sit in the cafes drinking coffee and feeding the many pigeons which congregate here. The city was founded by the Ottomans in 1461. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The old man and his children, from the fables of La Fontaine, traditional blue and white azulejos tile scene, 18th century, in the cloister of the Monastery of Sao Vicente de Fora, an Augustinian order monastery and church built in the 17th century in Mannerist style, Lisbon, Portugal. The monastery also contains the royal pantheon of the Braganza monarchs of Portugal. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The elected in Paradise, in the Celestial Jerusalem, with Abraham holding 2 children representing the Holy Innocents, early 12th century Romanesque, carved by the Master of the Tympanum, from the tympanum of the Last Judgement above the portal on the West facade of the Abbatiale Sainte-Foy de Conques or Abbey-church of Saint-Foy, Conques, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrenees, France, a Romanesque abbey church begun 1050 under abbot Odolric to house the remains of St Foy, a 4th century female martyr. The church is on the pilgrimage route to Santiago da Compostela, and is listed as a historic monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pastoral concert, with a lute player, a guitarist and a woman singing, in a garden setting with children and a pet dog, late 19th century engraving. Copyright © Collection Particuliere Tropmi / Manuel Cohen
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  • Mother with children and apple tree, from mosaic mural by Walter Womacka entitled Unser Leben or Our Life, depicting various occupations in East Berlin, on the facade of the Haus des Lehrers or House of the Teachers, built 1962-64 in East Germany or the GDR, Berlin, Germany. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Teacher in a schoolroom and children learning about geography and science, from mosaic mural by Walter Womacka entitled Unser Leben or Our Life, depicting various occupations in East Berlin, on the facade of the Haus des Lehrers or House of the Teachers, built 1962-64 in East Germany or the GDR, Berlin, Germany. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Women and children mourning the arrest of their loved ones, from the Block der Frauen or Block of Women sculpture, by Ingeborg Hunzinger, erected 1995, Rosenstrasse, Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The sculpture is a memorial to the Jewish women's protest in 1943 against the arrest of their husbands by the SS, and resulted in their release. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ruins of Himare Castle, with children playing, Himare, Vlore, Albania. The original castle dates to the Bronze Age and its polygonal walls to the 5th - 4th century BC. The castle contains the Church of Saints Sergius and Baku, the Church of All Saints, the apartment of Tano Jorgji Goro, an ancient tower, the Ancient Walls of the North Eastern side and the medieval entrance. Himare is a town in Vlore in the Albanian Riviera on the Ionian Coast, Southern Albania. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Caroline Murat, or Caroline Bonaparte, 1782-1839, Queen of Naples, with her children Achille 1801-47, Laeticia 1802-59, Lucien Charles 1803-78 and Louise 1805-89, painted 1808-10 by Francois Gerard, 1770-1837, in the Musee National du Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • A woman and 2 children walking in a narrow street in the medina or old town of Tetouan on the slopes of Jbel Dersa in the Rif Mountains of Northern Morocco. Tetouan was of particular importance in the Islamic period from the 8th century, when it served as the main point of contact between Morocco and Andalusia. After the Reconquest, the town was rebuilt by Andalusian refugees who had been expelled by the Spanish. The medina of Tetouan dates to the 16th century and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children leaving school, and in the distance, the Millennium Bridge and Tate Modern, City of London, England. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carres de la Perspective (the plots of perspective), children running under a tree at the corner of Georges Vila Alley and Buffon Alley, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carres de la Perspective (the plots of perspective), children running under a tree at the corner of Georges Vila Alley and Buffon Alley, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from the front of a commemorative stele in the Tophet sanctuary Carthage, Tunisia, pictured on January 27, 2008, in the afternoon. Carthage was founded in 814 BC by the Phoenicians who fought three Punic Wars against the Romans over this immensely important Mediterranean harbour. The Romans finally conquered the city in 146 BC. Subsequently it was conquered by the Vandals and the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage. The Tophet was used from 7th century BC until the fall of Carthage. The name and excavations suggest that children were sacrificed here. The relief of this stele depicts the sympols of Tanit, one of the city's patron deities. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Medina Tangier, Morocco pictured on December 18, 2009. Children play in a sloping street, outside typical Medina houses with overhanging upper stories and shuttered windows. Tangier, the 'White City', gateway to North Africa, a port on the Straits of Gibraltar where the Meditaerranean meets the Atlantic is an ancient city where many cultures, Phoenicians, Berbers, Portuguese and Spaniards have all left their mark. With its medina, palace and position overlooking two seas the city is now being developed as a tourist attraction and modern port. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Children learning about construction methods in the exhibition on the trades and tools of builders, in the Cathedraloscope, a cathedrals interpretation centre on the Place de la Cathedrale in Dol-de-Bretagne, Brittany, France. The museum is next to the Cathedral Saint-Samson and provides information on its history and construction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sculpted figures of 2 children cuddling, beneath 1 of the 8 balconies on the Baroque Palazzo la Rocca, built 1760-80 for the Baron of Sant'Ippolito, Don Saverio la Rocca, on Via Capitano Bocchieri in Ragusa Ibla, in Sicily, Italy. The town is split into the lower and older town of Ragusa Ibla, and the higher upper town of Ragusa Superiore, separated by the Valle dei Ponti. It is built on the site of an ancient city, inhabited by Sicels, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans. In 1693 it was devastated by an earthquake, and was rebuilt in the Baroque style. The town forms part of the Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of fresco of leopard on the facade of the Maison des Enfants (Children's Building), Parc Zoologique de Paris, or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris, also known as Vincennes Zoo), 1934, by Charles Letrosne, 12th arrondissement, Paris, France, pictured on April 26, 2011 in the morning. In November 2008 the 15 hectare Zoo, part of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History) closed its doors to the public and renovation works will start in September 2011. The Zoo is scheduled to re-open in April 2014. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Portrait of Margherita Medici di Marignano with her children, Mannerist painting, mid 16th century, in the Margherita Medici Room, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. Margherita Medici di Marignano was the sister of Pope Pius IV Medici and wife of Count Gilberto II Borromeo, father of Federico (left), Vitaliano and Carlo Borromeo. The palazzo, begun 1632, was designed by Angelo Crivelli, for Carlo III Borromeo and his wife Isabella D'Adda, then completed by Carlo Fontana for Giberto III Borromeo and Vitaliano VI Borromeo. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of fresco of giraffes on the facade of the Maison des Enfants (Children's Building), Parc Zoologique de Paris, or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris, also known as Vincennes Zoo), 1934, by Charles Letrosne, 12th arrondissement, Paris, France, pictured on April 26, 2011 in the morning. In November 2008 the 15 hectare Zoo, part of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History) closed its doors to the public and renovation works will start in September 2011. The Zoo is scheduled to re-open in April 2014. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Detail of fresco of Polar Bears on the facade of the Maison des Enfants (Children's Building), Parc Zoologique de Paris, or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris, also known as Vincennes Zoo), 1934, by Charles Letrosne, 12th arrondissement, Paris, France, pictured on April 25, 2011 in the afternoon. In November 2008 the 15 hectare Zoo, part of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History) closed its doors to the public and renovation works will start in September 2011. The Zoo is scheduled to re-open in April 2014. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Mosaics panel based on the stainglass figurative stories achieved in 2012-2013 by the pupils of the school Notre Dame de Poissy under the direction of mosaics artist Sandrina Van Geel, Collegiale Notre-Dame de Poissy, showing the Western bell tower and chapels of the North aisle, a catholic parish church founded c. 1016 by Robert the Pious and rebuilt 1130-60 in late Romanesque and early Gothic styles, in Poissy, Yvelines, France. This panel depicts Saint Louis IX King of France giving a judgement. The Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Poissy was listed as a Historic Monument in 1840 and has been restored by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mosaics panel based on the stainglass figurative stories achieved in 2012-2013 by the pupils of the school Notre Dame de Poissy under the direction of mosaics artist Sandrina Van Geel, Collegiale Notre-Dame de Poissy, showing the Western bell tower and chapels of the North aisle, a catholic parish church founded c. 1016 by Robert the Pious and rebuilt 1130-60 in late Romanesque and early Gothic styles, in Poissy, Yvelines, France. This panel depicts the baptism of Saint Louis, held by his mother Blanche of Castile in 1214. The Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Poissy was listed as a Historic Monument in 1840 and has been restored by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Playground and football enclosure on the newly renovated pedestrianised section of the Voie Georges Pompidou, a West-East roadway across Paris, on the right bank of the river Seine, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. In the distance is the Ile Saint-Louis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mosaics panel based on the stainglass figurative stories achieved in 2012-2013 by the pupils of the school Notre Dame de Poissy under the direction of mosaics artist Sandrina Van Geel, Collegiale Notre-Dame de Poissy, showing the Western bell tower and chapels of the North aisle, a catholic parish church founded c. 1016 by Robert the Pious and rebuilt 1130-60 in late Romanesque and early Gothic styles, in Poissy, Yvelines, France. This panel depicts the education of Saint Louis by his mother Blanche of Castile. The Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Poissy was listed as a Historic Monument in 1840 and has been restored by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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