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Alexandr Radayev
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How Napoleon's Appearance Changes in Antoine-Jean Gros Portraits Before and During the Empire
Have you noticed that Napoleon, in his portraits from before the imperial period, looks like a completely different man? Take, for example, the portraits by Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon's official painter: "Napoleon on the Bridge at Arcole" of 1796 and "Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul"
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Who Has Not Dreamed of Such a Secret Door?
Art · Pop Culture · Humour
Works by the French photographer Sacha Goldberger
She will ask whether you love the Renaissance or Star Wars more... and will leave without ever hearing your answer about the works of the French photographer Sacha Goldberger
Archaeology · Art · Pop Culture · Humour
Anthropomorphic mud glyph from an Alabama cave dated to between 700 and 900 AD
An anthropomorphic figure with a radiating semicircle in place of a backside, from unnamed cave No. 19 in Alabama, signals insistently to the people of the 21st century, who likewise worship an idol of ample stern embodied in the figure of Kim Kardashian. Looking at this mud glyph, one might
NB! · Faith · Observations · People
Pope Francis is now getting about in a wheelchair 😔
Art · Monarchies · Observations · Paris · Humour
Vincenzo Vela's Sculpture of Napoleon's Death at the 1867 Exhibition
At the slightest indisposition I feel like Napoleon on Saint Helena in Vincenzo Vela's sculpture The Last Moments of Napoleon I. This sculptural portrait of the dying Bonaparte was a great success at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1867, and the statue was eventually acquired by Emperor
Architecture · Geography · London · Monarchies · Society
London to open a metro line named after Elizabeth II on 24 May for the Platinum Jubilee
On 24 May London will launch an underground line named after Queen Elizabeth II, with 40 stations. The transit section of the Crossrail city railway has been called the largest construction project in Europe; work on it has been under way since 2009, and the total cost came to almost
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Makeshift corner by Richelieu–Drouot metro station, Paris
NB! · Observations · Society · Paris
Male and female street urinals in Paris and criticism of Mayor Anne Hidalgo
Municipal improvement of the kind Paris enjoys I would not wish upon any city in the world. And the local mayor, the inept Anne Hidalgo, was still opening her little beak for a presidential mandate
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Nature
Alexander Brodsky's park at the Vereteyevo estate near Moscow wins gold at the prestigious international Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2022
NB! · Cinema · Mores · Humour
A Breton Feast of the Time of Louis XV in Bertrand Tavernier’s film “Let Joy Reign Supreme”
How do you prefer it: at the table, on the table or under the table? A typical Breton feast of the days of Louis XV in Bertrand Tavernier's film "Let Joy Reign Supreme"