Cinema · Society · People

Giuseppe Volpi, founder of the Venice Festival, and the Grand Council of Fascism

The Venice Film Festival was born under Mussolini's warm wing. Its founder, the rather successful Italian politician Giuseppe Volpi, sat on the Grand Council of Fascism until 1943. True, when he spoke out against the alliance with Hitler, he was not merely driven out of every post but

NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Architecture

The Palace of Knossos, a Postcard of 1900

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How do you like the nereids at the base of the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna, mid-sixteenth century, by the sculptor Giambologna?

NB! · Art · People · Nature

The Exquisite Clouds of the German Artist Otto Modersohn, 1892

NB! · Archaeology · The East

The Seal of Cyrus the Great

A two-storey house with a pediment and tall white columns stands on a hill. A sandy path with stone steps leads up to it, among dry grass and shrubs.

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Villa with a white colonnade on a sandy hill

Aristocracy · Architecture · Mores · Rome

Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of m

Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of modernism on the shore of the Tyrrhenian

Aerial view of a railway yard with many tracks and long curving rows of dark freight cars.

Architecture · Geography · Observations

Infrastructure's effect on the landscape in an aerial view of a railway yard

A Queue of Trains at the Norfolk Railway Station in Virginia, USA. If anyone underestimates the influence of infrastructure on the landscape, do think again.

NB! · Coming Up · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome

The exhibition "Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii" at the Great Palaestra runs until 15 January 2023

Engraving of a crowned woman gesturing towards an owl with spread wings among rocks, with pomegranates hanging from a tree.

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Ascalaphus, Hades’ gardener, is turned into an owl for betraying Persephone’s secret

Ascalaphus, Hades' gardener, is turned into an owl as punishment for revealing that Persephone had tasted the food of the dead, pomegranate seeds, and so cannot return to the world of the living. Ovid's Metamorphoses

NB! · Architecture · Observations

Could All Our Street Kiosks Look Like THIS, Please?

NB! · Archive · London · Monarchies

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