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How do you rest?
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Today, we've come together
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It smells of formaldehyde
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Formaldehyde?
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Marquis, I'll show you
a splendid painting
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These men are emitting
a very strange odour
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Marquis, look at
"The Birth of John the Baptist"
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The Marquis smells of formaldehyde
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No, it's you
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I know this painting.
I saw it on my last visit here
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It comes from Paris,
from the Crozat collection
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Catherine II acquired it in 1772
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One of the earliest pieces
of the Hermitage collection
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Such information,
that's for specialists
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For us, detail is more interesting
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Look closely here
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A chicken and a cat
are in the foreground
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They are symbolic figures
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The chicken
represents greed and avarice
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The cat, cynicism and cruelty
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Cynicism and cruelty... The cat...
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They are both calmed
by the birth of John
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How interesting
:20:16
Why is he dressed like that?
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Cleopatra, for example,
What do you know of her?
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Massimo Stanzione...
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Cleopatra is on the same wall
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as "The Circumcision of Christ"
by the pious Ludovico Cardi
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- What bothers you?
- Bothers me?
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Right next to "Sainte Cecile"?
Can you imagine!
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By Carlo Dolci...
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And next to "Eastern Still Life"!
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- Why does that bother you?
- Don't argue, Oleg
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As a Catholic, that shocks me
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What do you think of Wagner?
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Who is Wagner?
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Oleg, he doesn't know Wagner!