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Tourist discovers 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus in use at a Bulgarian bar
Tourist discovers 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus in use at a Bulgarian bar. Ah, those Balkans.
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Hell among the Indians, Naraka, lies at the bottom of the earth, but souls are condemned to remain there only for a time, depending on their guilt, after which they may leave it in the shape of "unclean" beasts
Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
Head of Christ, a fragment of the crucifix from the Basilica of San Bernardino in L'Aquila, Abruzzo: the only surviving wooden sculpture, or rather fragment, by the architect and sculptor Lando di Pietro
In 1944, as the Allied forces were advancing towards the north of Italy, a bomb destroyed the basilica, including the crucifix that stood on the high altar. Of the sculpture only the head, parts of the knee and the left hand survive. In one of the knees and in the
NB! · Cinema · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
"Anora" has premiered at the Khudozhestvenny, and I hope the film gets a wide release too
"Anora" has premiered at the Khudozhestvenny, and I hope the film gets a wide release too. Mark Eidelshtein is excellent, Mikey Madison plays very well, and Yura Borisov is not bad either. The screenplay does not dazzle, though the direction is up to standard, and it would be
The East · Books · Observations
Review of Han Kang’s novel “The Vegetarian” and the heroine’s Mongolian spot
Another tick in the list of Nobel laureates' books read. Russian-speaking readers could already make the acquaintance of the South Korean writer Han Kang a few years ago: two novels by this year's Nobel laureate have been published in Russia, "The Vegetarian" and "
Art · Madrid · Monarchies · Observations
Goya's portrait of Queen Maria Luisa of Parma in the Royal Palace of Madrid
Queen María Luisa of Parma of Spain, portrayed in this picture in court dress and an oriental headdress, was extremely pleased with Goya's work. She even praised him in her letters. She came to the studio tirelessly to admire how the portrait was progressing. When he finished, the
Archive · Museums · Observations · Paris · Pop Culture
The Galerie Dior presents a retrospective of the iconic suit, with the Bar jacket from the 1947 collection, for which Christian Dior changed the shape of the mannequin for the first time, achieving a feminine silhouette that became one of the most recogni
The Bar jacket has appeared in every Dior collection, but on this occasion the House's archive invites us to see how the garment changed under successive creative directors: Yves Saint Laurent's Sultan dress of 1958, Marc Bohan's white dress with a black hat of
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Autumn is essentially the same goddess as spring; she has simply come to collect her flowers
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A Dictionary of Ailments
A Dictionary of Ailments. R: Rapture
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Two rowers in straw hats in a boat on green water, painting in a gilded frame
Art · Museums · Paris · People
Musée d'Orsay opens exhibition on Gustave Caillebotte and his collection of Impressionists
I try to write honestly and to be worthy of having my pictures hung in the hallway of a house where Cézanne and Renoir will hang. Renoir called Gustave Caillebotte the Joan of Arc of painting: the scion of a wealthy family, an engineer who gave himself to art without