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In the transept of the Catholic church of Saint-Mamboeuf, in the Burgundian Deanery of Charmont-Montbéliard, two monumental canvases hang facing each other: a Deposition of Christ dated 1902, and a painting of 1921 showing the burial of a soldier of the F

A man in a jacket stands with his back to the viewer at a window, while a woman at a desk with a typewriter and papers rests her head in her hand.

Books · People

A note on the French writer Frédéric Dard

Two clever people with opposing ideas can say far more to one another than two idiots of the same party. The French writer Frédéric Dard

NB! · Mores · Humour

I Like Your Outfit Very Much, but I Have Very Bad Taste

Faith · Books · Mores · Ethnography

Saint Lucy of Syracuse, her iconography, her role in Dante and the dessert of 13 December

In Italy there is a famous festive dessert called Saint Lucy's eyes. The iconography of the early Christian patron saint of the blind characteristically shows eyes, which she holds in her hands or on a small dish. According to variants of the hagiographic legend, Saint Lucy, who lived

NB! · Art · London · Museums · Mores · Humour

This 11-year-old English boy from 1660 has a very cool cap, even by modern standards

Black and white photograph of a woman in a long dress standing with her arms raised above her head beneath two caryatid statues of an ancient temple.

NB! · Archive · Architecture · People · Pop Culture

Isadora Duncan at the Erechtheion Caryatid Porch on the Athenian Acropolis in 1920

Isadora Duncan and the female figures of the "Porch of the Caryatids" of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian Acropolis. The photograph was taken in 1920, that is, two years before the wedding of the American dancer and Sergei Yesenin, to whom Duncan was married until 1924.

Two books on an orange background: on the left, a cover with a black-and-white photo of a man facing a sculpted head; on the right, a cover with a journal layout and text about the "new".

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Two Garage.txt books: on Herwarth Walden and on the "new" in art

Coming Up · Art · Books · Observations

A selection of eight books on history and art from Alpina Non-Fiction and Garage

NonFic is approaching, so I want to share some of the books recently sent to me for review that are worth hunting out at the fair's stands. 1. "A Little History of the World" by Ernst Gombrich. For people of any age who would like to

Cinema · Books

And So She Entered

And so she entered. Throwing back her veil, She looked at me attentively. I say to her: "Was it you who dictated to Dante The pages of the Inferno?" She replies: "I did." Literal translation "The Muse", Anna Akhmatova, 1924 and Jennifer Coolidge, The

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The American professor of classics Bernard Knox once remarked that a few rides in Athenian taxis had given him a fresh appreciation of the Homeric chariot races

Detail of a painting: a young nude woman looks back over her shoulder while infant cupids hold a white veil above her.

Art · Humour

Painting “The Toilet of Venus” attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Madam, Cover Yourself! The Toilet of Venus, attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The East · Cinema · Humour

Orson Welles filmed the murder scene of “Othello” in Turkish baths for lack of costumes

Why are there naked men in Orson Welles's "Othello"? In the original text, the action of Act V, in which the murder contrived by Iago, the principal antagonist, is played out, unfolds in Cyprus, near the house of the courtesan Bianca. The filming was a great

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