Architecture · Art · Monarchies · Museums

Maurizio Cattelan's suspended horse, the 1997 work “Novecento” at the Rivoli museum

Anyone who has been to Turin cannot fail to remember the horse suspended from the dome of the former residence of the House of Savoy at Rivoli, which has housed a museum of contemporary art since 1984. Quite literally the subject of a nature morte, a still life, it is

Detail of an old painting: part of a woman's face in a white headdress with a fly painted on it.

Art · Humour

The Master of Frankfurt portrays himself with his wife in a self-portrait of 1496

When the Landlady Was Telling the Truth About There Being No Cockroaches. Self-Portrait of the Master of Frankfurt with His Wife, 1496

NB! · Art · Observations · Education · Humour

Perhaps everyone has seen this already, but the crib sheets of a Spanish student at the University of Málaga, published by his lecturer, really do look like a work of art

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View of Dresden by Full Moon

View of Dresden by full moon. The Norwegian painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, 1839

Archaeology · Observations · Ethnography · Humour

Serpent Stone from the Roman town of Alauna in Britain, with Celtic and Roman symbols

Good morning! Here is the so-called Serpent Stone from the Roman civilian settlement of Alauna in Britain. The meeting of Celtic traditional beliefs and Roman symbolism looks for all the world like Aesculapius' serpent that has failed to coil itself around a phallus of considerable girth. Such stones

Close-up of an eye on a painting made with thick, textured brushstrokes of yellow, orange, green and red.

NB! · Art · Observations

Van Gogh and Rembrandt as a subject for reflection on painting

Van Gogh and Rembrandt. Food for thought

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · New York

Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC

Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Cinema · London · Monarchies · Observations

The 1992 Windsor Castle fire and how it is depicted in the series “The Crown”

Imelda Staunton and Jonathan Pryce as the royal couple in the drama "The Crown" are certainly splendid, but during the November 1992 fire at Windsor Castle Prince Philip was presiding over a World Wildlife Fund congress in Buenos Aires and, however much he might have wished it, could

NB! · Art

Cupid and Psyche, Jacob Jordaens, 17th Century

Painted portrait of an older woman in a dark cap, an embroidered white blouse and a brocade sarafan. She wears a multi-strand pearl necklace and rings, her hands clasped.

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Portrait of a woman in Russian dress with a pearl necklace

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg

The “Zertsalo” exhibition on Russian provincial portraiture of the 18th and 19th centuries at the Manege

A remarkable exhibition of Russian provincial portraiture of the 18th and 19th centuries, "Zertsalo" ("The Mirror"), is on at the Manege in Saint Petersburg. Although most of the artists and most of the faces portrayed remain unknown, the curators have managed, within these terem chambers, to

Round bowl of translucent dark blue glass with milk-white swirls, photographed from above against a grey background.

NB! · Art · Museums

Mosaic glass bowl in dark blue and milk white, 1st century BC, in the Getty Museum collection

Bowl of translucent dark blue and milk-white mosaic glass, 1st century BC. Collection of the Getty Museum

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