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A New Banksy in Marseille, on Rue Félix Frégier
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Library digitises over 18,000 of its 82,000 manuscripts, available on DigiVatLib
The Vatican Apostolic Library Embarks on a Large-Scale Project to Restore and Digitise More Than 80,000 Ancient Manuscripts. The library's collection comprises more than 82,000 manuscripts and 1.6 million printed books, among them more than 8,000 incunabula, books printed before 1501. Its holdings
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MGTU mailing announces 3 June prayer service for success in the summer exams
Time to Read the Akathists! The Bauman University student mailing list, as ever, is on top form
Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Heritage
Derbent is over 2,000 years old and ranks among the oldest cities in Russia
Underground reservoir of the 10th to 11th centuries to open to visitors in Derbent. Derbent, with a history of more than 2,000 years, is one of the oldest cities in Russia
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Rubens's tomb in St James's Church in Antwerp and the decoration of its burial chapel
Rubens's tomb is in St James's Church in Antwerp. His remains lie in the family vault beneath the funerary chapel built at the commission of his widow. The altar of the chapel is adorned with Rubens's painting of 1638, "Madonna Surrounded by Saints&
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The British Museum is simply a whole mountain of random things that were carried off from other countries and cultures
The British Museum is simply a whole mountain of random things that were carried off from other countries and cultures. It only strengthens the view that being British is nothing to be proud of. The only thing that was British was the enormous queue at the entrance
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Damien Hirst compared a certificate for a future sculpture to futures trading
Damien Hirst Speaks of His "Posthumous Drawings" Project: Instructions for Making Works of Art That Can Be Produced and Sold in His Name After the Artist's Death. "The idea is to have a certificate saying: 'First year after Damien's death: you have
Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
Centre Pompidou branch to open in November 2027 with focus on South American artists
While the main building of the Centre Pompidou in Paris closes for lengthy renovation, a new branch of the museum is planned to open in the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, not far from the Iguazu Falls. The museum's activity will focus both on displaying part of
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Attention, Children!
A work by the cartoonist Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family
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Red rose placed in the hand of a bronze statue
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