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A Happy Coincidence
A happy coincidence. A project by the French photographer Stéphane Dréchan about people in museums and their looks that match works of art
Alexandr Radayev
The East · Art
Allegory of Europe in an engraving by Gilles Rousselet, late 17th century
Allegories of Europe and Asia. Engraving by Gilles Rousselet, late seventeenth century
Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage
Ludwig I built Walhalla near Regensburg in 1842, a memorial to eminent Germans
Catherine II Has Gone to Valhalla. In 1842 Ludwig I built Walhalla in Bavaria, a majestic memorial edifice to perpetuate the memory of outstanding Germans. Conforming precisely to the Greek architectural canon, the building, designed by Leo von Klenze, stands on a high bank of the Danube, 10 km from
Observations · Society · People
How the names of ships seen from a dacha window changed over forty years
Alla Demidova on ships and their names:. For more than forty years now I have watched from my dacha window this picture of ships sailing past. We had a game: who could make out a name first. Little by little I grasped a certain regularity: the two-deckers were given
Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
Picasso Museum in Paris to be renovated from 2028 to 2030 at a cost of 50 million euros
Picasso Museum in Paris Announces Major Redevelopment by 2030. The Picasso Museum in Paris, which holds the largest collection of the artist's work in the world, with more than 5,000 works and 200,000 archival items, is preparing for a major redevelopment. The plans include a new
Archaeology
Four Neolithic earthwork circles found near Rechnitz in Austria
Four Neolithic earthwork circles found in Austria. In an archaeological park near the town of Rechnitz (Austria), four earthwork circles about 100 metres in diameter have been discovered. They were built in the Middle Neolithic, in the 5th millennium BC, 2,000 years before Stonehenge. Similar circles are found throughout
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
Restorers have recovered the parquet and sphinx stoves of Francesco Camporesi's palace theatre
Restoration of the Egyptian Pavilion at the Ostankino Estate completed. Specialists have restored more than 700 sq. m. of authentic artistic parquet, door leaves adorned with gilded and silvered carving, faux marble, items of fittings and stucco decoration, as well as the historic stoves with their sculpted sphinxes. The design
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
Emmanuel of 1681 and the nine new bells of 2013 at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
The restored bells of Notre-Dame de Paris have a good many unusual and interesting details attached to them. The great bell Emmanuel, for instance, is a witness to history: cast in 1681, it is the only one of the large bells to have survived the French Revolution. Napoleon heard
Faith · Mores
Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov on why God asks people only to fulfil their ordinary duties
The Lord does not require you to stop eating, drinking and sleeping, or to give all your property to the poor. Do what you ought: if you are a wife, be a normal wife; if you are a father, be a normal father; if you are a son, be a
NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
The new Versace collection is really not bad at all; I would happily try on some of the looks
The new Versace collection is really not bad at all; I would happily try on some of the looks. But the women's handbags… Gentlemen, it is high time we put an end to this fashion; we have played long enough, and that will do
NB! · Geography · Science
A sailing chariot, invented in the early seventeenth century by the mathematician Simon Stevin for Prince Maurice of Nassau, allowed swift travel, by the standards of the day, along the shores of the North Sea
Art · Museums · Humour
Eighteenth-century Venetian marionettes from the collection of Marchesa Luisa Casati
They Rather Overdid It with This Fellow. Eighteenth-century Venetian marionettes from the collection of the Marchesa Luisa Casati