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King and a youth offering a sword, in the style of a medieval miniature
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Sergey Yukhimov’s illustrations for “The Lord of the Rings” in the 1993 Russian edition
The greatest illustrations to "The Lord of the Rings", 1980-1990, by Sergey Yukhimov. They were published in the 1993 Russian edition
Aristocracy · Books · People
If you like me, let them read me; if I offend, let them cast me into the fire: I seek no trumpet of praise
Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Dolgorukov
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Drawing of a classical hall with Corinthian columns and griffin ceiling beams
Archive · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage
A project to remodel the Acropolis by the celebrated Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, whom Otto, the first King of the Greeks, invited to design a royal palace in Athens, a small provincial town of some 10,000 inhabitants…
Schinkel was far ahead of his time in proposing that the palace be built literally on the site of the ancient temples, folding the ruins of the age of Pericles into a residential and administrative royal quarter. In effect, this would have meant the destruction of the Acropolis with all
Aristocracy · Architecture · Art · Observations · Humour
Ceramic pavilion “Wedding Cake” by Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor
The 12-metre ceramic pavilion "Wedding Cake" by the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. The present day. Waddesdon Manor in the English county of Buckinghamshire, property of the Rothschild Foundation. The author calls her work a building, an immersive sculpture. At first glance it appears a rather striking structure,
Art · Museums · Paris · Rome
Paris, Rue Saint-Merri
Judith and Holofernes, Michelangelo da Caravaggio, collection of the Palazzo Barberini
Archaeology · Architecture · Science
Lifting devices of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, from levers to the rotating crane
The illustrations of the building of the Aqua Claudia show Roman construction machinery made entirely of wood and driven by human muscle. Sophisticated hoisting machines existed in Ancient Egypt too, though they bore little resemblance to modern cranes, being systems of inclined planes and levers. A crane similar to those
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Hans Baldung Grien, The Seven Ages of Woman, c. 1544
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Hans Baldung, paintings on the theme of the three (seven) ages of woman and death
Hans Baldung, paintings on the theme of the three (seven) ages of woman and death. 1520s–1540s.
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