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Italy puts on sale 15th-century house in Palazzo Felicini where Leonardo da Vinci lived
An Italian house where Leonardo da Vinci once lived is up for sale. The building is currently owned by a former Italian footballer. The residence in Emilia dates from the 15th century and forms part of the Palazzo Felisini. Da Vinci lived here after moving to Bologna with his patron
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Mary of Teck as a grandmother and the question of her strictness
Was Mary of Teck a strict grandmother? Hm, let me think
Art · Observations · Humour
Prehistoric people feasting in Viktor Vasnetsov’s “Stone Age”, 1883
The Stone Age. A Feast. Viktor Vasnetsov, 1883 *My leopard skin is prettily reflected in the glass in the centre
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Archaeology · Art · Museums · Mores
Venus in a golden bikini from Naples and the two-piece garment of women in ancient Rome
The Venus in the Golden Bikini from the Naples National Archaeological Museum. She is not the only evidence that women in ancient Rome wore a costume of two separate parts: an upper bodice covering the breasts and a lower part covering the hips. It could serve as underwear or as
Architecture · Faith · Art
A company strolling beneath cathedral vaults in an oil painting on panel
The artist Laurent Grasso reimagines the interior of the Church of St Bavo by the Dutch draughtsman Pieter Jansz Saenredam of 1631 in his painting of 2023. And the company strolling beneath the cathedral vaults elegantly turns, elegantly turns into a little cloud of mist. Studies of the Past, oil
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Model of an exhibition room with fabric drapery and small paintings
Archive · Architecture · Art · Museums
Carlo Scarpa's design for the 1953 exhibition of the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina entered the golden fund of exhibition architecture
Carlo Scarpa's design for the 1953 exhibition of the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina entered the golden fund of exhibition architecture. Scarpa draped the rooms of the Palazzo Zanca in multicoloured cotton cloths, concealing walls, floors and every scrap of decoration, and leaving only niches for the
London · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
The names Archie and Lilibet chosen by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for their children
This is what the line of succession to the English crown looks like now. I have one question about this list: does it really mean that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their children ARCHIE and LILIBET? All this time I had assumed these were diminutives of some
Art · Museums · Nature · Humour
Hundreds of frogs playing tennis and billiards, brawling in a tavern, fighting with rulers at school, performing acrobatic stunts and going about other ordinary human business: this is one of the most unusual museums in the world, the museum of frog taxid
Hundreds of frogs playing tennis and billiards, brawling in a tavern, fighting with rulers at school, performing acrobatic stunts and going about other ordinary human business: this is one of the most unusual museums in the world, the museum of frog taxidermy in the Croatian city of Split. The Hungarian
Books · Observations · Humour
Who decides whether a writer is justly forgotten, with Tatishchev and Kheraskov as examples
When a writer is said to be unjustly forgotten, it is worth asking: how is it determined whether a person has been forgotten deservedly or not? Is there some committee that establishes this? Or is it estimated by eye? Tatishchev, for instance, is unjustly forgotten, whereas Kheraskov is quite deservedly