Architecture · Faith · Art
Carved and gilded altar of St Peter's Cathedral in Malmö
Everything You Need to Know About the Baroque, in Two Photographs. The altar of St Peter's Church in Malmö
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Books · Observations · Humour
Author receives first fee for a lecture on Odysseus in wine and whisky from venue owner
Yesterday I received, for the first time in my life, a fee for a public appearance. In the form of a bottle of wine and a bottle of whisky, admittedly. I shall not hide that it was unexpected and very pleasant that the proprietor of the establishment, seated at the
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I adore this portrait of Catherine II: so charming, so unaffected and, above all, unflattering
I adore this portrait of Catherine II: so charming, so unaffected and, above all, unflattering. It is a great pity that the artist's name has not come down to us
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White round tower with a wooden roof and apple trees in the foreground
Faith · Museums · Observations · Nature
I understand that not everyone will care for regular gardens of the French type
I understand that not everyone will care for regular gardens of the French type. Very well, then: I was taken with the metropolitan's garden of apple, pear, cherry and plum trees beneath the ancient walls of the Rostov Kremlin. Metropolitan Jonah Sysoyevich conceived it in the manner of
Observations · Humour
Subscriber clarifies that Lavinia in the portrait plays a virginal, not a spinet
I love you, dear subscribers! And it is pleasant to know that there are such specialists among you. On the post about Lavinia And what a name, the virginal! Pure poetry!
Art · Society · People · Rome
If you should ever find yourself in an unequal struggle with the hidebound notion that the history of world culture knows no great women creators, then remember, for instance, Lavinia Fontana, a Renaissance or, as she is sometimes called, early Baroque pa
If you should ever find yourself in an unequal struggle with the hidebound notion that the history of world culture knows no great women creators, then remember, for instance, Lavinia Fontana, a Renaissance or, as she is sometimes called, early Baroque painter from Bologna. Fontana achieved the same successes as
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Isabella Ruini as Venus likewise does not shy from an age gap with Cupid
Isabella Ruini as Venus likewise does not shy from an age gap with Cupid. A work by Lavinia Fontana
Art · Humour
- Are you quite sure our difference in age doesn't trouble you?
- Oh, come now
Art · Museums · Observations · People · Rome
Statue of Pyrrhus, 1st Century, in the Capitoline Museums, and Its Predator-Skin Footwear
Statue of Pyrrhus (318-272 BC) in the Capitoline Museums, 1st century AD. Of course you remember the expression "Pyrrhic victory", but it is not the military past of this commander and ruler, so important to the history of Greece, that I wish to draw your attention to,
Architecture · London · Science · Education
The 1743 lunar clock at Queens' College, Cambridge, has no link to Isaac Newton
Contrary to rumour, Isaac Newton has nothing to do with these moon dials at Queens' College. The curious panel appeared on a Cambridge wall in 1743, and to tell the time from it one did indeed need a university education. That is precisely why moon dials never became as