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A triptych by the Belgian Symbolist Léon Frédéric entitled "The Ages of the Worker", painted between 1895 and 1897. It belongs to the collection of the Musée d'Orsay and is currently on show at the "Brussels 1900" exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris.
Faith · Art
I Wash My Hands At the centre of the composition we see Jesus Christ, with Pontius Pilate seated to his right. And who is that in the upper part of Pontormo's fresco from the Carthusian monastery of Galluzzo? A servant is coming down the stairs, carrying the water
The Golden Age · NB! · Books · Moscow · Observations
Good morning from Konstantin Paustovsky. Dedicated to everyone who is about to take the Metro
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On the find of the ancient Chinese ape-man
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Under the Stalinist charter of collective-farm life, the peasant woman of the kolkhoz receives leave for a month before the birth and a month after it Before 1917, maternity leave did not exist in Russia. Whether a pregnant working woman kept her place depended on the decision of her
Faith · People · Humour
Who'd like some with a little fat? (c) Pope Leo XIV
Archive · Science · People · Ethnography
When Yuri Knorozov was refused an entry visa to Mexico in June 1956, his senior colleague Sergei Alexandrovich Tokarev, head of the Department of Ethnography at Moscow State University, explained to the young decipherer of the Maya script: "The Mexican government still obeys the Washington imperialists and assumes that
NB! · Observations · Paris · Humour
May things turn out better for you than they have for this Parisian flowerbed
Art · Museums · Paris · People
Behind the creation of the Statue of Liberty lies a grand financial epic. The monument's makers resorted to crowdfunding long before the term existed, although in those years many monuments were built by subscription, and anyone who wished could contribute his mite. So it was in this case:
Art · Society · People
The heirs of Pablo Picasso are going to law over counterfeit silver dishes and gold medallions made after his designs. A preliminary investigation on the complaint of Paloma Ruiz-Picasso, filed on behalf of nine heirs, is being conducted by the court in Aix-en-Provence. The case file speaks
Archaeology · Faith · Science · Ethnography
The children whom the Incas offered in sacrifice were given alcohol and plant-based substances that dulled the senses before they died. This was shown by a toxicological analysis of the hair and nails of eight mummies from Peru and Argentina, which are about 500 years old. The sacrificial rite
The East · Archaeology
Off the island of Takashima in Japan, 29 playing cards and five dice have been found on a sunken ship of the Mongol fleet. The vessel apparently perished in 1281, during the Battle of Koan, when the fleet of the Chinese Yuan dynasty attempted to invade Japan. The ship is