Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Rome
Before Santa Maria Maggiore, where Pope Francis was laid to rest yesterday, there were, naturally, queues many hours long. It is one of the four major basilicas of Rome, but despite its pilgrimage status, large queues did not usually gather here outside the church festivals. Now, I suspect, the beaten
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Biden, the second Catholic US president after Kennedy, attended the funeral of Pope Francis. In rather good health, compared with his time in office
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How the funeral of Pope Francis went today, 26 April 2025. Pope Francis died on the morning of 21 April in the Vatican of a stroke and heart failure. In the evening the rite of certifying death and placing the body in the coffin was performed. On 22 April official
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Yury Avvakumov, Russian architect, populariser of the concept of paper architecture, artist who has represented Russia three times at the Venice Biennale, and researcher who has worked for many years with the legacy of the Russian avant-garde and the them. The catalogue of the exhibition "Moscow-Paris. 1900-
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Delightful works by the Vietnamese-French artist Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980). All the works shown here were created in the 1950s and are devoted to scenes from the lives of women: their toilette and their care of children, with the everyday world of childhood. Mai Trung Thu was a