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  • A knife with wooden handle and iron blade, 16th century, from the 1999 excavations at the medieval castle of Chateau-Thierry led by Christophe Patat, kept at the Centre Jean Mace, at the Cordeliers Convent, Chateau-Thierry, Picardy, France. The first fortifications on this spur over the river Marne date from the 4th century and the first castle was built in the 9th century Merovingian period by the counts of Vermandois. Thibaud II enlarged the castle in the 12th century and built the Tour Thibaud, and Thibaud IV expanded it significantly in the 13th century to include 17 defensive towers in the walls and an East and South gate. The castle was largely destroyed in the French Revolution after having been a royal palace since 1285. In 1814 it was used as a citadel for Napoleonic troops. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • A knife with wooden handle and iron blade, 16th century, from the 1999 excavations at the medieval castle of Chateau-Thierry led by Christophe Patat, kept at the Centre Jean Mace, at the Cordeliers Convent, Chateau-Thierry, Picardy, France. The first fortifications on this spur over the river Marne date from the 4th century and the first castle was built in the 9th century Merovingian period by the counts of Vermandois. Thibaud II enlarged the castle in the 12th century and built the Tour Thibaud, and Thibaud IV expanded it significantly in the 13th century to include 17 defensive towers in the walls and an East and South gate. The castle was largely destroyed in the French Revolution after having been a royal palace since 1285. In 1814 it was used as a citadel for Napoleonic troops. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • A knife with wooden handle and iron blade, 16th century, from the 1999 excavations at the medieval castle of Chateau-Thierry led by Christophe Patat, kept at the Centre Jean Mace, at the Cordeliers Convent, Chateau-Thierry, Picardy, France. The first fortifications on this spur over the river Marne date from the 4th century and the first castle was built in the 9th century Merovingian period by the counts of Vermandois. Thibaud II enlarged the castle in the 12th century and built the Tour Thibaud, and Thibaud IV expanded it significantly in the 13th century to include 17 defensive towers in the walls and an East and South gate. The castle was largely destroyed in the French Revolution after having been a royal palace since 1285. In 1814 it was used as a citadel for Napoleonic troops. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC14_France_MC287.jpg
  • Taurobolium altar, used for sacrificing bulls, dedicated to Cybele, Mother of the Gods, and to the imperial Numina, by Lucius Pomponius Paternus, with relief of bull's head, sacrificial knife, ladle and vase, Gallo-Roman sculpture, 180-250 AD, excavated in the ramparts of Vesunna, in the Musee Vesunna, Perigueux, Dordogne, France. The Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum was built by Jean Nouvel and opened in 2003, to protect and house the excavated remains of the Vesunna domus and exhibit artefacts from the region. Vesunna was founded on the site of modern-day Perigueux in c. 16 BC under Emperor Augustus, and was the Gallo-Roman capital of Petrucores territory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Taurobolium altar, used for sacrificing bulls, dedicated to Cybele, Mother of the Gods, and to the imperial Numina, by Lucius Pomponius Paternus, with relief of bull's head, sacrificial knife, ladle and vase, Gallo-Roman sculpture, 180-250 AD, excavated in the ramparts of Vesunna, detail, in the Musee Vesunna, Perigueux, Dordogne, France. The Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum was built by Jean Nouvel and opened in 2003, to protect and house the excavated remains of the Vesunna domus and exhibit artefacts from the region. Vesunna was founded on the site of modern-day Perigueux in c. 16 BC under Emperor Augustus, and was the Gallo-Roman capital of Petrucores territory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • St Peter Martyr Enjoining Silence, depicting St Peter Martyr or St Peter of Verona holding a finger to his lips, Renaissance fresco by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in the Convento San Marco, now the Museo di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The painting was restored in 1954 by Leonetto Tintori and in 2012 by Bartolomeo Ciccone. St Peter's martyrdom in 1252 is depicted by a knife in his back and a wound in his skull. He wears and blue and white robe and holds a book and a palm branch. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • St Peter Martyr Enjoining Silence, depicting St Peter Martyr or St Peter of Verona holding a finger to his lips, Renaissance fresco by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in the Convento San Marco, now the Museo di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The painting was restored in 1954 by Leonetto Tintori and in 2012 by Bartolomeo Ciccone. St Peter's martyrdom in 1252 is depicted by a knife in his back and a wound in his skull. He wears and blue and white robe and holds a book and a palm branch. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of man amongst the foliage cutting a plant with a curved knife, from the monumental fireplace, destroyed in 1820 and reassembled in the 1930s, in the Salle des Festins or Hall of Feasts, in the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Sacrifice of Isaac, with an angel stopping Abraham's knife and pointing to a ram, with Isaac's legs echoing the shape of a cross (an Old Testament antetype to the Road to Calvary), from the stained glass window of the New Alliance, 1215-25, in bay 3, in the ambulatory of Bourges Cathedral or the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, built 1195-1230 in French Gothic style and consecrated in 1324, in Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The New Alliance window is a typological window, drawing parallels between the Old and New Testaments, specifically with the Passion scenes of Christ carrying the cross, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection with their Old Testament antetypes. 22 of the original 25 medieval stained glass windows of the ambulatory have survived. The cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carved capital depicting Abraham holding a knife about to sacrifice his son Isaac, with an angel on the far right, in the transept 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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  • Fresco of hunting scene from hall at Qasr Amra, Jordan. A hunter is seen skinning the dead animal with a knife. These early Islamic frescoes have strong Persian and Byzantine influences. The original castle complex was built in 723-743 by Walid Ibn Yazid, the future Umayyad Caliph Walid II. It was a fortress with military garrison and residence of the Umayyad Caliphs. Today only the royal pleasure cabin remains, with reception hall and hammam or bath house. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of tanners, one with a knife, in the dyeing pits, Chouara Tannery, Fez, Morocco, pictured on February 25, 2009 in the evening. The Chouara tannery is the largest of the four ancient tanneries in the Medina of Fez where the traditional work of the tanners has remained unchanged since the 14th century. It is composed of numerous dried-earth pits where raw skins are treated, pounded, scraped and dyed. Tanners work in vats filled with various coloured liquid dyes derived from plant sources. Colours change every two weeks, poppy flower for red, mint for green, indigo for blue, chedar tree for brown and saffron for yellow. Fez, Morocco's second largest city, and one of the four imperial cities, was founded in 789 by Idris I on the banks of the River Fez. The oldest university in the world is here and the city is still the Moroccan cultural and spiritual centre. Fez has three sectors: the oldest part, the walled city of Fes-el-Bali, houses Morocco's largest medina and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site;  Fes-el-Jedid was founded in 1244 as a new capital by the Merenid dynasty, and contains the Mellah, or Jewish quarter; Ville Nouvelle was built by the French who took over most of Morocco in 1912 and transferred the capital to Rabat. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Hell, with a demon eating the brains of a man who commits suicide with a knife to his throat, 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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  • Broken sculpture of a bull sacrifice, with figure about to slit the neck of the animal with a knife, from the Museum Of Apollonia near the Ardenica monastery in Fier, Albania. The museum was opened in 1958 to display artefacts found at the nearby Greek Illyrian archaeological site of Apollonia. Apollonia was an ancient Greek city in Illyria, founded in 588 BC by Greek colonists from Corfu and Corinth. It flourished in the Roman period and declined from the 3rd century AD when its harbour was silted up due to an earthquake. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Knifegrinder, 1912, oil on canvas, by Kasimir Malevich, 1878-1935, from the collection of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Malevich was a Russian painter who founded the Suprematist art movement and produced many geometric abstract works. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Taurobolium altar, used for sacrificing bulls, dedicated to Cybele, Mother of the Gods, and to the imperial Numina, by Lucius Pomponius Paternus, Gallo-Roman sculpture, 180-250 AD, excavated in the ramparts of Vesunna, detail, in the Musee Vesunna, Perigueux, Dordogne, France. The Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum was built by Jean Nouvel and opened in 2003, to protect and house the excavated remains of the Vesunna domus and exhibit artefacts from the region. Vesunna was founded on the site of modern-day Perigueux in c. 16 BC under Emperor Augustus, and was the Gallo-Roman capital of Petrucores territory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Lucretia, oil painting, c. 1657, by Guido Cagnacci, 1601-63, in the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, a fine arts museum opened 1801 in a former convent on the Place des Terreaux in Lyon, Rhone, France. The painting depicts the moment just before Lucretia stabs herself through the heart with a dagger. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Butchers cutting up a cow and men carrying joints of meat as offerings, painted relief at the Tomb of Sesheshet Idut, princess, probably the daughter of king Unas, 5th dynasty, Old Kingdom, on the Unas causeway at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb of Idut has walls covered with painted reliefs of hunting, fishing, farming and tax payment. The mastaba was usurped and was originally that of the vizier Ihy. The burial site at Saqqara, containing pyramids, mastabas and tombs from 1st dynasty to the Greco Roman period, was the royal necropolis for Memphis. Saqqara is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Martyrdom of St Cucuphas, with an executioner cutting the saint's throat while he is tied to a tree, 1504-7, by Ayne Bru, oil painting on wood, Renaissance, originally part of an altarpiece at the monastery of Sant Cugat del Valles, in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, in the Palau Nacional on Montjuic Hill, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Yves Le Guel, owner of Doumbea, the last remaining producer of 'jambon a l'ancienne' or traditional ham and 'jambon de Paris' or Parisian ham, within Paris, at the Rue de Chaconne in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France, photographed on 12th February 2019. Doumbea produces several salt cured ham products of the highest quality, which are sought after by the finest chefs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Knives used to open the oyster shells, used by the captain of the dhow, 20th century, in a temporary exhibition on pearl diving, which has been practised in Bahrain for over 2000 years, in the Bahrain National Museum, designed by Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen, inaugurated December 1988 by Amir Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. The museum houses cultural and archaeological collections covering 6000 years of history, with rooms entitled Burial Mounds, Dilmun, Tylos and Islam, Customs and Traditions, Traditional Trades and Crafts, and Documents and Manuscripts. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mathilde Lingee, master glazier, setting glass in lead for a stained glass window by the artist Bernard Quesniaux, photographed 30th August 2017 at the Ateliers Duchemin, Paris, France. Since the 1850s, the Ateliers Duchemin have been making and restoring stained glass. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The revenge of Herodias, with the head of St John on a plate, polychrome high relief in the second row on the North side of the Gothic choir screen in the North ambulatory, 1490-1530, commissioned by canon Adrien de Henencourt and made by the sculptor Antoine Ancquier, depicting the life of St John the Baptist, at the Basilique Cathedrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens or Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, built 1220-70 in Gothic style, Amiens, Picardy, France. Amiens Cathedral was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The revenge of Herodias, with the head of St John on a plate, polychrome high relief in the second row on the North side of the Gothic choir screen in the North ambulatory, 1490-1530, commissioned by canon Adrien de Henencourt and made by the sculptor Antoine Ancquier, depicting the life of St John the Baptist, at the Basilique Cathedrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens or Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, built 1220-70 in Gothic style, Amiens, Picardy, France. Amiens Cathedral was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gladiator figure from a carved sarcophagus found at Aphrodisias, Aydin, Turkey. Sarcophagi were recovered in various locations, often with designs of garlands and columns. The Sculpture School at Aphrodisias was an important producer of carved marble sarcophagi and friezes from the 1st century BC until the 6th century AD. Many sarcophagi were decorated with lively reliefs, symbolizing the desire to deny the eternal darkness of death. Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek city in Caria near the modern-day town of Geyre. It was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias. The city suffered major earthquakes in the 4th and 7th centuries which destroyed most of the ancient structures. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of worker, Chouara tannery, Fez, Morocco, pictured on February 22, 2009 in the morning. The Chouara tannery is the largest of the four ancient tanneries in the Medina of Fez where the traditional work of the tanners has remained unchanged since the 14th century. It is composed of numerous dried-earth pits where raw skins are treated, pounded, scraped and dyed. Tanners work in vats filled with various coloured liquid dyes derived from plant sources. Colours change every two weeks, poppy flower for red, mint for green, indigo for blue, chedar tree for brown and saffron for yellow. Fez, Morocco's second largest city, and one of the four imperial cities, was founded in 789 by Idris I on the banks of the River Fez. The oldest university in the world is here and the city is still the Moroccan cultural and spiritual centre. Fez has three sectors: the oldest part, the walled city of Fes-el-Bali, houses Morocco's largest medina and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site;  Fes-el-Jedid was founded in 1244 as a new capital by the Merenid dynasty, and contains the Mellah, or Jewish quarter; Ville Nouvelle was built by the French who took over most of Morocco in 1912 and transferred the capital to Rabat. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Bull of Marathon, oil painting on canvas, 1918, by Maurice Denis, 1870-1943, in the Musee des Beaux Arts de Tours, a fine arts museum founded 1801, and housed since 1910 in the archbishop's palace on the Place Francois Sicard in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. The museum houses paintings from 14th - 21st centuries, sculpture, prints, ceramics and furniture, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stela with relief of god Bes, Roman Egyptian stele of the god Bes, 1st - 2nd century AD, polychrome limestone, from Coptos, or Qift, in the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, a fine arts museum opened 1801 in a former convent on the Place des Terreaux in Lyon, Rhone, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere, a museum created by Paul Feller, displaying handmade tools from 17th - 19th centuries, housed in the Hotel de Mauroy, built c. 1560, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. The museum displays over 12,000 tools and celebrates apprenticeships of many kinds. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sacrifice of Isaac, detail from the Genesis stained glass window, c. 1500, in the Eglise de la Madeleine, built 13th, 16th and 17th century in Gothic style, in Troyes, Champagne, Aube, Grand Est, France. The church is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Men carrying joints of meat as offerings, painted relief at the Tomb of Sesheshet Idut, princess, probably the daughter of king Unas, 5th dynasty, Old Kingdom, on the Unas causeway at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb of Idut has walls covered with painted reliefs of hunting, fishing, farming and tax payment. The mastaba was usurped and was originally that of the vizier Ihy. The burial site at Saqqara, containing pyramids, mastabas and tombs from 1st dynasty to the Greco Roman period, was the royal necropolis for Memphis. Saqqara is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Butchers cutting up a cow to present joints of meat as offerings, painted relief at the Tomb of Sesheshet Idut, princess, probably the daughter of king Unas, 5th dynasty, Old Kingdom, on the Unas causeway at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb of Idut has walls covered with painted reliefs of hunting, fishing, farming and tax payment. The mastaba was usurped and was originally that of the vizier Ihy. The burial site at Saqqara, containing pyramids, mastabas and tombs from 1st dynasty to the Greco Roman period, was the royal necropolis for Memphis. Saqqara is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Butchers cutting up a cow to present joints of meat as offerings, painted relief at the Tomb of Sesheshet Idut, princess, probably the daughter of king Unas, 5th dynasty, Old Kingdom, on the Unas causeway at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb of Idut has walls covered with painted reliefs of hunting, fishing, farming and tax payment. The mastaba was usurped and was originally that of the vizier Ihy. The burial site at Saqqara, containing pyramids, mastabas and tombs from 1st dynasty to the Greco Roman period, was the royal necropolis for Memphis. Saqqara is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen using hook and line and dip net, and various fish species in the river Nile, painted relief at the Tomb of Sesheshet Idut, princess, probably the daughter of king Unas, 5th dynasty, Old Kingdom, on the Unas causeway at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb of Idut has walls covered with painted reliefs of hunting, fishing, farming and tax payment. The mastaba was usurped and was originally that of the vizier Ihy. The burial site at Saqqara, containing pyramids, mastabas and tombs from 1st dynasty to the Greco Roman period, was the royal necropolis for Memphis. Saqqara is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Papyrus boat, with details of offering bearers and fishermen using hook and line and dip net, painted relief at the Tomb of Sesheshet Idut, princess, probably the daughter of king Unas, 5th dynasty, Old Kingdom, on the Unas causeway at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb of Idut has walls covered with painted reliefs of hunting, fishing, farming and tax payment. The mastaba was usurped and was originally that of the vizier Ihy. The burial site at Saqqara, containing pyramids, mastabas and tombs from 1st dynasty to the Greco Roman period, was the royal necropolis for Memphis. Saqqara is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Kiss of Judas, Renaissance fresco, 1441-43, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 33 in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. To the right is St Peter cutting off the ear of a servant of the high priest. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • St Peter cutting off the ear of a servant of the high priest, detail from Kiss of Judas, Renaissance fresco, 1441-43, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 33 in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Kiss of Judas, detail, Renaissance fresco, 1441-43, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 33 in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. To the right is St Peter cutting off the ear of a servant of the high priest. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Martyrdom of St Bartholomew, depicting the saint being flayed alive, 1465-80, by Jaume Huguet, 1412-92, Gothic, panel from the altarpiece of St Anne, St Bartholomew and St Magdalene, in tempera, stucco and gold leaf on board, from the church of Sant Marti de Pertegas in Sant Celoni, Valles Oriental, in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, in the Palau Nacional on Montjuic Hill, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marble relief on a shop surrounding the agora, an open public square surrounded by colonnades and shops, 4th century AD, in Perga, an ancient Pamphylian city ruled by the Persians, Greeks and Romans, in Antalya, Turkey. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marble relief on a shop surrounding the agora, an open public square surrounded by colonnades and shops, 4th century AD, in Perga, an ancient Pamphylian city ruled by the Persians, Greeks and Romans, in Antalya, Turkey. Behind is Hadrian's Gate, a monumental gate built during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD. An inscription over the middle arch states that the Plancha Magna dedicated the gate to the city. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Suicide of Anger, with a woman committing suicide by stabbing herself in the chest with a sword, sculpted stone capital, 12th century, in the Basilique Notre Dame du Port, a 12th century Romanesque basilica in the port area of Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The church is listed as a historic monument and forms part of the Santiago de Compostela UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Yves Le Guel, owner of Doumbea, the last remaining producer of 'jambon a l'ancienne' or traditional ham and 'jambon de Paris' or Parisian ham, within Paris, at the Rue de Chaconne in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France, photographed on 12th February 2019. Doumbea produces several salt cured ham products of the highest quality, which are sought after by the finest chefs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Yves Le Guel, owner of Doumbea, the last remaining producer of 'jambon a l'ancienne' or traditional ham and 'jambon de Paris' or Parisian ham, within Paris, at the Rue de Chaconne in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France, photographed on 12th February 2019. Doumbea produces several salt cured ham products of the highest quality, which are sought after by the finest chefs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Yves Le Guel, owner of Doumbea, the last remaining producer of 'jambon a l'ancienne' or traditional ham and 'jambon de Paris' or Parisian ham, within Paris, at the Rue de Chaconne in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France, photographed on 12th February 2019. Doumbea produces several salt cured ham products of the highest quality, which are sought after by the finest chefs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ham makers at work in the kitchens of Doumbea, owned by Yves Le Guel, the last remaining producer of 'jambon a l'ancienne' or traditional ham and 'jambon de Paris' or Parisian ham, within Paris, at the Rue de Chaconne in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France, photographed on 12th February 2019. Doumbea produces several salt cured ham products of the highest quality, which are sought after by the finest chefs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man pruning trees, detail from the West rose window, originally made 1225, with the Virgin in the central medallion and around, the labours of the months, signs of the zodiac, Virtues and Vices and prophets, in the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or Notre-Dame cathedral, built 1163-1345 in French Gothic style, on the Ile de la Cite in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The rose window was completely restored 1844-67 under Jean Baptiste Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc, by master glaziers Alfred Gerente, Louis Steinhel, Antoine Husson, Charles Laurent Marechal and A N Didron the Elder. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man cutting crops with a scythe, detail from the West rose window, originally made 1225, with the Virgin in the central medallion and around, the labours of the months, signs of the zodiac, Virtues and Vices and prophets, in the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or Notre-Dame cathedral, built 1163-1345 in French Gothic style, on the Ile de la Cite in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The rose window was completely restored 1844-67 under Jean Baptiste Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc, by master glaziers Alfred Gerente, Louis Steinhel, Antoine Husson, Charles Laurent Marechal and A N Didron the Elder. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man cutting crops with a scythe, detail from the West rose window, originally made 1225, with the Virgin in the central medallion and around, the labours of the months, signs of the zodiac, Virtues and Vices and prophets, in the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or Notre-Dame cathedral, built 1163-1345 in French Gothic style, on the Ile de la Cite in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The rose window was completely restored 1844-67 under Jean Baptiste Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc, by master glaziers Alfred Gerente, Louis Steinhel, Antoine Husson, Charles Laurent Marechal and A N Didron the Elder. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pearl diver opening oysters on a tourist pearl diving activity trip from Ras Raya port, Muharraq, Bahrain. Tourist pearl activities are strictly monitored, with each person catching up to 60 oysters. Muharraq is a city on the Pearling Path and with a strong history of pearl diving and pearl trade, where 17 buildings form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site celebrating the pearl trade. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pearl diver opening oysters on a tourist pearl diving activity trip from Ras Raya port, Muharraq, Bahrain. Tourist pearl activities are strictly monitored, with each person catching up to 60 oysters. Muharraq is a city on the Pearling Path and with a strong history of pearl diving and pearl trade, where 17 buildings form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site celebrating the pearl trade. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mathilde Lingee, master glazier, setting glass in lead for a stained glass window by the artist Bernard Quesniaux, photographed 30th August 2017 at the Ateliers Duchemin, Paris, France. Since the 1850s, the Ateliers Duchemin have been making and restoring stained glass. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cul-de-lampe corbel sculpture of a man holding a dagger, in the secondary staircase of the North facade, between the Louis XII wing and the Grande Salle des Etats Generaux, at the Chateau Royal de Blois, built 13th - 17th century in Blois in the Loire Valley, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France. The chateau has 564 rooms and 75 staircases and is listed as a historic monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Sacrifice of Isaac, with Abraham and his son Isaac climbing the mountain, with Isaac carrying the wood in the shape of a cross (an Old Testament antetype to the Road to Calvary), the stained glass window of the New Alliance, 1215-25, in bay 3, in the ambulatory of Bourges Cathedral or the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, built 1195-1230 in French Gothic style and consecrated in 1324, in Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The New Alliance window is a typological window, drawing parallels between the Old and New Testaments, specifically with the Passion scenes of Christ carrying the cross, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection with their Old Testament antetypes. 22 of the original 25 medieval stained glass windows of the ambulatory have survived. The cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Carved capitals with fantastic beasts and figures entwined with foliage, on the facade of the Abbey Church, Romanesque, built 1105-60, at Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Loire Valley, Maine-et-Loire, France. The abbey was founded in 1100 by Robert of Arbrissel, who created the Order of Fontevraud. It was a double monastery for monks and nuns, run by an abbess. The order was dissolved during the French Revolution and the building subsequently used as a prison. The abbey is listed as a historic monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The sacrifice of Isaac, stained glass window, 1974, by Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, with the studio of Jacques Simon, in the axial chapel of the apse of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims or Reims Cathedral, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France. The cathedral was built 1211-75 in French Gothic style with work continuing into the 14th century, and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The revenge of Herodias, with the head of St John on a plate, polychrome high relief in the second row on the North side of the Gothic choir screen in the North ambulatory, 1490-1530, commissioned by canon Adrien de Henencourt and made by the sculptor Antoine Ancquier, depicting the life of St John the Baptist, at the Basilique Cathedrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens or Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, built 1220-70 in Gothic style, Amiens, Picardy, France. Amiens Cathedral was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The revenge of Herodias, with the head of St John on a plate, polychrome high relief in the second row on the North side of the Gothic choir screen in the North ambulatory, 1490-1530, commissioned by canon Adrien de Henencourt and made by the sculptor Antoine Ancquier, depicting the life of St John the Baptist, at the Basilique Cathedrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens or Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, built 1220-70 in Gothic style, Amiens, Picardy, France. Amiens Cathedral was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene of a butcher's stall at a street market in the Middle Ages. Image taken from the filming of 'Paris la ville a remonter le temps' written by Carlo de Boutiny and Alain Zenou, directed by Xavier Lefebvre, a Gedeon Programmes production. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Saints Crispin and Crispinian, patron saints of cobblers, at Soissons, hanging by their armpits at the gallows while soldiers cut them with knives and the governor Rictus Varus looks on, from the Scenes of the Life and Martyrdom of Saints Crispin and Crispinian stained glass window, attributed to Nicolas le Prince, donated in 1530 by the cobblers guild in Gisors, in the Collegiate Church of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais, built 12th to 16th centuries in Gothic and Renaissance styles, in Gisors, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. The church was consecrated in 1119 by Calixtus II but the nave was rebuilt from 1160 after a fire. The church was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fresco of hunting scene from hall at Qasr Amra, Jordan. Hunters are seen skinning and butchering the dead animal with knives. These early Islamic frescoes have strong Persian and Byzantine influences. The original castle complex was built in 723-743 by Walid Ibn Yazid, the future Umayyad Caliph Walid II. It was a fortress with military garrison and residence of the Umayyad Caliphs. Today only the royal pleasure cabin remains, with reception hall and hammam or bath house. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tomb effigy of a lady, probably Margaret of Gloucester, wife of Robert II, mid 13th century, in the Gothic Chapel, a 13th century chapel in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. The effigy, French, in limestone, wears aristocratic costume with a purse or aumoniere, a needle case and a knife in a sheath. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View from above of a young boy sharpening his knife, Chouara Tannery, Fez, Morocco, pictured on February 25, 2009 in the evening. The Chouara tannery is the largest of the four ancient tanneries in the Medina of Fez where the traditional work of the tanners has remained unchanged since the 14th century. It is composed of numerous dried-earth pits where raw skins are treated, pounded, scraped and dyed. Tanners work in vats filled with various coloured liquid dyes derived from plant sources. Colours change every two weeks, poppy flower for red, mint for green, indigo for blue, chedar tree for brown and saffron for yellow. Fez, Morocco's second largest city, and one of the four imperial cities, was founded in 789 by Idris I on the banks of the River Fez. The oldest university in the world is here and the city is still the Moroccan cultural and spiritual centre. Fez has three sectors: the oldest part, the walled city of Fes-el-Bali, houses Morocco's largest medina and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site;  Fes-el-Jedid was founded in 1244 as a new capital by the Merenid dynasty, and contains the Mellah, or Jewish quarter; Ville Nouvelle was built by the French who took over most of Morocco in 1912 and transferred the capital to Rabat. Picture by Manuel Cohen.
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  • Nacho lifting the epidermis of the skins with a special knife at the tannery factory of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Nacho lifting the epidermis of the skins with a special knife at the tannery factory of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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