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"Dance at Bougival", Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883
"Dance at Bougival", Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Drive away with all your might the lust of Cupid, or else Venus will possess your blinded soul
The inscription on Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Venus and Cupid" from the Hermitage collection. The painting returned to the permanent display today after restoration. Painted in 1509, Cranach's Venus is the first female nude in the history of German painting, Eve excepted.
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
NBC's 1980s miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's “The Martian Chronicles”
In the 1980s NBC screened a miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles", about the settlement of Mars by Earthlings who have left their home planet because of nuclear war. Having made a technological leap after the Second World War, humanity ends by destroying life
NB! · Museums · Mores · Humour
A Basin for Washing Your Eyes After Everything You Have Seen on the Internet, Fifteenth Century
Faith · Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Heritage
Monument to Tsar Nicholas II the Martyr near Mytishchi, village of Taininskoye, Moscow Region
Monument to Tsar Nicholas II the Martyr near Mytishchi, village of Taininskoye, Moscow Region. The author is the sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov. The monument was erected in 1996, for the centenary of Nicholas II's coronation, on the ancient royal road from Moscow to the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius,
Art · People
Rare Van Dyck etching with a self-portrait sketch offered at Christie's
Christie's has put up an exceedingly rare etching by Van Dyck, bearing a sketch for his self-portrait. This lively, spontaneous sketch is the best evidence of Van Dyck's virtuosity as a draughtsman and portraitist. The image is known from the engraving by Jacob Neeffs, who
NB! · Archive · Observations
Photograph of two mountaineers with ice axes taken in 1900
Two mountaineers in 1900. Every time I see photos like this, I am struck by how much the world has changed in a mere hundred years.
Faith · Books · People
An old printed text on inner anxieties as the result of a guilty conscience
Archbishop Platon, court preacher to Catherine II, on the nature of anxiety:. Inward disquiet proceeds from a reproachful conscience, which feels shame and remorse when the passions are followed against the dominion of the mind. Such a wretched state of the soul is not from God, but from a depraved
Architecture · Faith · Rome
How the Vatican site changed from the Circus of Caligula to St Peter’s Basilica
The Circus of Caligula Gradually Becomes an Elegant Vatican. A marvellous infographic showing the evolution of the site on which St Peter's Basilica was built in the fourth century, and which acquired its present appearance at the end of the sixteenth century thanks to Michelangelo
NB! · Observations · Education
Congratulations to all students and teachers on the official end of the academic year!
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