NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Art · Museums

Reliefs of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum, 4th century BC, by four Greek masters, Scopas, Timotheus, Bryaxis and Leochares, depicting the war of the Greeks and the Amazons

Medieval miniature of a seated man raising his hand, a woman beside him, and a brazier with fire on the left.

NB! · Pop Culture · Humour

A medieval miniature compared with the character Eric Cartman

Further proof that Eric Cartman is a recurring character of world culture. "Mum, I need a poo!"

NB! · Observations

Good morning

NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Looking at Brigitte Bardot at the annual charity show for artists in need, the 1970 Gala of the Artistes' Union, and I cannot tell whether they simply look alike to me, or whether Angelina Jolie really does resemble the young Brigitte from this angle

Marble figure of a nude warrior with tousled hair and a torque at his neck, half-reclining on an oval shield and propping himself on one arm. Other statues and a bust stand in the hall behin

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The Dying Gaul, a marble sculpture in the Capitoline Museums

NB! · Art · Cinema · Museums · Pop Culture · Rome · Humour

Tony Stark, Captain America: Civil War, 2016, and the Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museums, 230s BC

NB! · Cinema · London · Monarchies · Pop Culture

Dame Helen Mirren Congratulates Elizabeth II on Her Platinum Jubilee in Elizabethan Dress

NB! · Architecture

A Breton water tower that looks like a knightly castle from the future

Books · Mores · Saint Petersburg

I Knew Two Lovers Who Lived in Petrograd in the Days of the Revolution and Did Not Notice It

Boris Pasternak

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When they asked who had skipped the opening of Parliament to go to the Royal Horse Show

Art · Books · Mores

The tragic tale of the lovers Paolo and Francesca, slain by his brother and her husband Giovanni, who surprised them together, is known to us thanks to Dante, who placed the story of real historical figures, Francesca da Rimini, Gianciotto and Paolo…

The tragic tale of the lovers Paolo and Francesca, slain by his brother and her husband Giovanni, who surprised them together, is known to us thanks to Dante, who placed the story of real historical figures, Francesca da Rimini, Gianciotto and Paolo Malatesta, in Canto V of the "Inferno&

Books · Observations

Alexander Blok on doves and the bygone times of Paolo and Francesca

What angered me most of all was. That it was not we who were kissing, but the doves, And that the days of Paolo and Francesca are gone. Alexander Blok

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