Even though this is invisible to the naked eye, some particularly radiant paintings are haloed with a cloud of tiny coloured dust particles. Coming so close to these pictures, art lovers are generally covered with them. Sometimes they scatter them all around as they make gesticulate vigorously in front of their friends to describe the masterpiece they have just seen.
Enlargement (one million two hundred and fifty thousand times) of the coloured particles given off by the paintings in this gallery.

On May the 5th 1907, the sculptor Baptiste D... conceived a Venus in stone whose forms were to be exclusively cut by the single force of cleverly canalised jets of water.
But at the unveiling on June the second 1910, the water was cut off to discover the goddess rising out of the waves and the officials deemed her to be so improper that they decided to immerse her again until she recovered a more decent appearance.

On the 14th of February 1931, when he heard above him the thud of the famous meteorite which was destined to strike this bathroom, Oskar Serti had the feeling that he was going to be its victim.
Surrendering, his last thought was for Catherine de Sélys, whom he had bastardly abandoned five years earlier.
The sudden reminder, at this fatal moment, of his deplorable behaviour vis à vis the poor Catherine, rekindled in him such a sentiment of disgust, that a violent jolt of self-repulsion ran through him and miraculously whisked him away from the danger.