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Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Heritage
Delphi, once the centre of the entire Greek world
Art · Observations · Heritage
Vicente Segrelles depicts a treasure finder and the ghost of the hoard's owner
The owner is, after all, not the one who found it, but the one who left it. When gazing on the treasures of antiquity, it would be as well not to forget their true proprietors. Illustration: the Spanish artist Vicente Segrelles.
NB! · Observations · Science · Humour
Celebrated Irish scientists: the ancient Irish were dark-skinned with blue eyes
Celebrated Irish scientists: the ancient Irish were dark-skinned with blue eyes. Shall we carry on, or is anyone ready to get off?
Architecture · The East · Geography · Heritage
This column of green marble in the corner of the stone wall of the Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul is mentioned in the text of the famous seventeenth-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi. Çelebi writes that the architect Sinan set it up before building the
This column of green marble in the corner of the stone wall of the Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul is mentioned in the text of the famous seventeenth-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi. Çelebi writes that the architect Sinan set it up before building the mosque exactly in the centre of
Art · Science
Dürer’s engraving “Nemesis” with realistic proportions of the human body
This "Nemesis" is one of the first engravings with such realistic proportions of the human body. Dürer is believed to have worked on it with extraordinary care, using compasses and calculating instruments in order to depict the human body not as an ideal, but as it is in
NB! · Art · New York · Humour
The Future of Mankind?
The future of mankind? By the American illustrator Reid Kikuo Johnson, cover of The New Yorker, October 2017
Architecture · Monarchies · Moscow · Heritage
Monument to "the Most Pious, Most Autocratic, Great Sovereign, Our Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich of All Russia"
The monument to "the Most Pious, Most Autocratic, Great Sovereign, Our Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich of All Russia. 1881–1894", the work of the architect Alexander Pomerantsev and the sculptors Alexander Opekushin and Artemy Ober, was unveiled in Moscow beside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on 30 May
NB! · In the Press · London · Monarchies · Observations
Cosmopolitan was explaining, two weeks ago, how we shall learn of the death of King Charles III
London · Monarchies · Observations · Society
Rumours of Charles III's death spread on Telegram, TikTok and Twitter in March without official confirmation
I don't understand why everyone on Telegram suddenly started posting about the death of King Charles III. Clearly, people want views, but there has been no official announcement of the monarch's death. Rumours that Charles was dead began circulating in earnest as early as 17 March.
The East · Art · Museums · Observations
A Painting by Vladimir Fyodorovich Stozharov, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts, at Arter, the Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art
It must be admitted that the display at the museum is rather peculiar: on the neighbouring wall, a couple of metres from Stozharov, hangs Dürer's rhinoceros, and a little further on, Bill Viola.
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