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Not only is "Aida" a family drama, but it is set in Ancient Egypt, and its scenario, however modest at just 4 pages, was written by the Egyptologist Mariette Bey
Not only is "Aida" a family drama, but it is set in Ancient Egypt, and its scenario, however modest at just 4 pages, was written by the Egyptologist Mariette Bey. Verdi had to labour over it, because there was little material to begin with: Mariette simply read the
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Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with their eldest daughter Olga Nikolaevna, and her grandmother Queen Victoria with the heir, Prince Albert
Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with their eldest daughter Olga Nikolaevna, and her grandmother Queen Victoria with the heir, Prince Albert. Well, and who here is the most stylish?
NB! · Faith · Observations · Ethnography · Humour
Omen linking a sunny St Raoul's Day to the start of the harvest
I read somewhere that if St Raoul's Day is sunny, the harvest will soon be ready for gathering. St Raoul's Day (the feast of the English martyr Ralph Milner) was yesterday, and it seems we are still a very long way from any harvest
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The Tretyakov Gallery Has Preserved a Chagall Autograph
The Tretyakov Gallery has preserved a Chagall autograph. In the photograph he is seen with Furtseva and, in all likelihood, her daughter Svetlana Petrovna
Art · Moscow · Museums · People
Marc Chagall's only visit to the Soviet Union in 1973 and his Tretyakov Gallery exhibition
In 1973, the 86-year-old Marc Chagall visited the Soviet Union for the first time. The visit was arranged by the Minister of Culture, Yekaterina Furtseva, who had been introduced to the artist in Paris. At the Tretyakov Gallery there opened what contemporaries described as a modest exhibition of
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Today is the birthday of Marc Chagall
Today is the birthday of Marc Chagall. In the photograph he is with his wife, Valentina Georgievna Brodskaya, at his home in the south of France, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, where he would die in 1985 at the age of 97. On the wall: Red Roofs
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John Paul II at the shrine of Saint Maria Goretti in Nettuno soon after his papal election
Pope John Paul II venerated the body of Saint Maria Goretti in one of the first days after his election. Her shrine stands in its own chapel in the town of Nettuno, in the sanctuary of Our Lady
Faith · Observations · People
The story of Maria Goretti, killed in 1902 and canonised 48 years later
One of the favourite saints of my school syllabus was Maria Goretti. Children always regard her with great reverence and love, which is understandable: she is one of the few who belong specifically to a children's pantheon. A saintly girl who, we may be certain, really existed, and
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An Incredibly Detailed Female Leopard in Giallo Tigrato Marble (the Stone That Adorns Santa Maria Maggiore)
An incredibly detailed female leopard in giallo tigrato marble (the stone that adorns Santa Maria Maggiore). The cat has glass eyes 😍 And her two cubs live in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
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I wonder what plant it is that Cranach's Adam in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has on his nether parts?
I wonder what plant it is that Cranach's Adam in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has on his nether parts? It looks like an epiphyte, something like an orchid. It would be amusing: in that case it is Eve who has plucked the flower, and not the other
Art · Museums
Vienna's Museum of Art History and Lucas Cranach's “Adam and Eve” in Its Collection
Opening a new weekly column. Today we shall visit the foremost art museum of Vienna, the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History), whose holdings are made up of several royal collections: those of Archduke Leopold, Emperor Rudolf II and Prince Eugene of Savoy. The Italians and the Dutch are the