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The Veiled Christ, 1753. In Italian the sculpture is known as “Cristo velato” The sculpture was to have been carved by Antonio Corradini, but after his death, when only a terracotta sketch remained, it was decided that the project would be completed by Giuseppe Sanmartino, who was 33 years old
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Museums
Interestingly, the painting "Allegory of Hearing", executed in 1617–1618 by the Flemish artists Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, captures not merely the collection of curiosities and luxuries belonging to the rulers of the Netherlands, Archduke Albert VII and his wife Isabella, but also music
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The librarian of the Rumyantsev Museum and philosopher of the "Common Task" Nikolai Fyodorov held that humanity is obliged to resurrect literally all its dead ancestors. By what means? By technical effort, or rather by the collective effort of reason. Tolstoy knew him, read him, argued with him,
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Know what solution they came up with? Since 2018, a group of artists has been painting murals across Rio with portraits of figures of Afro-Brazilian culture, each placed at a spot where the person in question once lived
Archaeology · Heritage · Science
The earliest iron production in the territory of Angola dates to the 5th to 8th centuries. Since 1974 the Ndalambiri rock shelter in Angola has been protected as a monument of national heritage, thanks to a painted frieze 60 metres long with almost 1,200 figures. A team led by
Coming Up · Art · Books · London
The estimate for the book is £1.5–2 million. The manuscript has spent 700 years in private hands, has never been publicly exhibited and has never been studied academically. It is now the earliest of the three privately owned copies of the cycle among the two hundred or so
Archaeology · Faith
In Black Lake Cave on the Croatian peninsula of Pelješac, a terracotta head in the guise of a Greek theatrical mask, dating from the 3rd-4th century BC, has been found. The object is hollow, with a small hole for a cord: it hung on a wall. Vessels for wine
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Artists Jest. Vasily Vereshchagin
Faith · Observations · Society · Rome
Pope Leo XIV Issues His First Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence. Leo XIV invites the reader to choose: are people building the Tower of Babel, or restoring Jerusalem under Nehemiah? The main thing the Pope draws attention to in the encyclical is the passage of technological power from the public sector
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
Look how beautifully the exit of La Fourche metro station has been restored in Paris! Officials very rarely, but still occasionally, manage to discharge their duties properly; in this case they needed the direct participation of the residents of the neighbourhood, who proposed precisely this design in place of the