Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves

Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves. The display consists of manuscripts, codices, printed books and a great many works of art, showing the connection between the different arts between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Engravings, sculptures, paintings, coins, drawings and texts by the masters of the Renaissance and celebrated humanists show how the Renaissance shaped the contours of Western thought, science, art and literature, which, without exaggeration, became the foundation of modern Western, that is, global, civilisation

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s