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Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris
Jewels of the Apollo Gallery at the Louvre, where a robbery reportedly took place
These are only some of the jewels displayed in the Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre, which was robbed today, according to available reports. Among other things, the gallery houses the principal French crown jewels. What could be seen in the Galerie d'Apollon: 💎The "Regent"
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Overcast day on a Paris street beside a stone building with arches
Museums · Heritage · Paris · Reportage
The Louvre closed for exceptional reasons, with approaches to the museum cordoned off
The Louvre Has Been Robbed. The museum is closed. All likely approaches to it have been cordoned off. Crowds of tourists who do not read the news are asking the gendarmes what has happened and whether they will get their money back. A notice announces, in studiously neutral terms, exceptional
NB! · Observations · Humour
What Is the Name of the Mental State That Makes People Think Others Will Change Their Minds if Shown Weighty Arguments Backed by Exhaustive Facts and Data?
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
At times it seems to me that museums of classical art are temples not so much of beauty as of discipline, intellectual discipline included, naturally
At times it seems to me that museums of classical art are temples not so much of beauty as of discipline, intellectual discipline included, naturally. We often go there not for inspiration but for confirmation that our world can still be explained, at least a little. And yet, after dozens
Faith · Art · Books · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Nabokov's poem “The Guardian Angel” and a Guardian Angel icon from the Russian Museum
In the hour of mournful midnight the beating of the heart grows more distinct, and nearer comes the bright-winged companion, my grieved and gentle friend. He draws near, but soon I lose myself, and in my sleep I see a storm, I see the sea And maidens laughing on
NB! · Faith · Art · Humour
A Plump Evangelist Luke in a Coloured Engraving on Vellum by Cornelis van Merlen, Patron of Artists, Physicians and, Judging by Appearances, of Those Who Have Rather Overdone the Luncheons Between Manuscripts
Archaeology · Museums · Paris · Humour
Etruscan funerary urn of the 4th–3rd century BC in the Louvre collection
Judging by the gestures, he is still arguing with the tour guide. An urn that proves that ancient art is not merely vases, but a philosophy of form. The photograph shows an Etruscan funerary urn, roughly of the 4th to 3rd centuries BC, from the collection of the Louvre. Such
Cinema · Monarchies · Humour
Orson Welles as Justinian the Great in the film “The Battle of Rome”
Justinian the Great wishes his crown to outshine every star in the firmament. The only trouble is that Orson Welles also demands a spotlight of his own. Still from the film “The Battle of Rome”
Books · Society
Perhaps all this is trifles, And the main thing, the very main thing, Which is more terrible even than mortal anguish, Is coarseness of spirit, coarseness of matter, Coarseness of life, of love, of everything; Coarseness of the native she-beast, the U.S.S
Perhaps all this is trifles, And the main thing, the very main thing, Is that which is more terrible even than mortal anguish: Coarseness of spirit, coarseness of matter, Coarseness of life, of love, of everything; Coarseness of the native she-beast, the U.S.S.R., – Coarseness, savagery – and
NB! · Art
Painting “A Big Company” by Tatyana Nazarenko, 2013
A Large Party. Tatyana Nazarenko, 2013