Art · Museums

Allegory of Justice Trampling Deceit and Protecting a Woman with a Child and a Boy

Dutch Golden Age, c. 1651/53, Baroque artist Gabriël Metsu. Mauritshuis collection, The Hague. On long-term loan since 2019 to the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden

NB! · Observations

I Support the Idea

NB! · Archive · Society · Paris

Paris in May 1968

Paris in May 1968. The corner of Boulevard Saint-Michel and Rue Soufflot. Nowadays the spot is occupied by something along the lines of a Burger King

Coming Up · Architecture · Books · Museums

Today our "Where to Go" column takes us to the Chekhov museum-reserve: what to see at Melikhovo in May?

"Everything here is in miniature: a little avenue of lime trees, a pond the size of an aquarium, a little garden and park, little trees, but you stroll about a time or two, look closely, and the impression of smallness vanishes." So Anton Chekhov described the Melikhovo estate

Map of Eurasia with the territory of the Roman Empire shaded red and that of the Mongol Empire shaded blue.

NB! · The East · Monarchies · Observations

The Mongol and Roman Empires on one map and the length of their existence

The Mongol Empire and the Roman Empire. The former collapsed overnight; the latter lasted from the end of the Second Punic War until 1453.

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These Two ❤️

Heritage · Society

Ramsgate memorial to the small vessels lost in the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation

A deeply moving people's memorial at Ramsgate to the many "little ships" of Dunkirk, which took part in the evacuation of British and French troops in June 1940 and never returned. Among them were fishing boats, pleasure craft, small coastal cargo vessels, ferries and even private

NB! · Humour

Young man, are you quite all right?

NB! · Archive · Architecture · Faith · Moscow

Inside the Original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 1880s

NB! · Faith · Art

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, El Greco, before 1570

Architecture · Faith · Observations · Society · Paris

In the Marais, inside the church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, vintage clothes are sold at weekends

In the Marais, inside the church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, vintage clothes are sold at weekends. There are usually plenty of tourists here, eager to capture a thoroughly Parisian combination: Baroque-Classicist architecture and fashionable dress. This is a working church, which shares its premises with a second-

Coming Up · Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

I have been to the Georges de La Tour exhibition "Between Shadow and Light" at the Musée Jacquemart-André five times, and each time there was a queue at the door, but if I could get in once more, I would gladly go

I have been to the Georges de La Tour exhibition "Between Shadow and Light" at the Musée Jacquemart-André five times, and each time there was a queue at the door, but if I could get in once more, I would gladly go. So I am determined not

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