NB! · Archaeology · The East
Alexandr Radayev
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Villa with a white colonnade on a sandy hill
Aristocracy · Architecture · Mores · Rome
Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of m
Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of modernism on the shore of the Tyrrhenian
Architecture · Geography · Observations
Infrastructure's effect on the landscape in an aerial view of a railway yard
A Queue of Trains at the Norfolk Railway Station in Virginia, USA. If anyone underestimates the influence of infrastructure on the landscape, do think again.
NB! · Coming Up · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome
The exhibition "Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii" at the Great Palaestra runs until 15 January 2023
NB! · Art · Books
Ascalaphus, Hades’ gardener, is turned into an owl for betraying Persephone’s secret
Ascalaphus, Hades' gardener, is turned into an owl as punishment for revealing that Persephone had tasted the food of the dead, pomegranate seeds, and so cannot return to the world of the living. Ovid's Metamorphoses
NB! · Architecture · Observations
Could All Our Street Kiosks Look Like THIS, Please?
NB! · Archive · London · Monarchies
The future King Charles III and Princess Anne chat as they sit in their prams in the garden of Clarence House in 1951
Observations · Mores · Society · People
Nina Khrushchev and Jacqueline Kennedy
Nina Khrushchev and Jacqueline Kennedy. These photographs are often captioned with ironic remarks comparing the two First Ladies, of the USSR and the USA, as if to set Nina Khrushchev in a less flattering light. Well, then. It may be agreed that the wife of the Soviet General Secretary dressed
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Engraving detail: balustrade with a halberd and a head on a pike
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Paris
A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from…
A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from the prison of La Petite Force to the
NB! · Books · London · Monarchies · Society Pages
Camilla, Queen Consort of England, presented the 2022 Booker Prize to Shehan Karunatilaka, a 47-year-old Sri Lankan writer living in Singapore, for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Camilla, Queen Consort of England, presented the 2022 Booker Prize to Shehan Karunatilaka, a 47-year-old Sri Lankan writer living in Singapore, for his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. This is the seventh time Camilla has presented the award.