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Holbein’s “The Dead Christ”
Hans Holbein’s painting referred to as The Dead Christ in the novel (the full title of the real painting, which was completed around 1520-22, is The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb)…
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The Chinese Vase
Mrs. Epanchin’s beloved, expensive Chinese vase represents the extremely delicate social norms and etiquette of high society—norms that Myshkin fails to understand and frequently violates, usually by accident. Myshkin’s breaking of the vase also…
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