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Tree of Life by Giuseppe Arcimboldo and Giuseppe Meda in Monza Cathedral, 1556
Fresco of the Tree of Life with Christ crucified on its trunk. Painted in 1556 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the very same who made portraits out of vegetables, and Giuseppe Meda in the transept of Monza Cathedral, north-east of Milan
Architecture · Cinema · Madrid · Observations · Rome
Roman Forum Reconstruction for the 1964 Film “The Fall of the Roman Empire”
A little more on architecture. And on cinema. For the filming of The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), a full-scale reconstruction of the Roman Forum was built at Las Matas, near Madrid. Covering 92,000 square metres, four times the size of Red Square, it became the largest
Architecture · Observations · Ethnography · Humour
If you want to give a pleasant surprise to your beloved from the house with the carved palisade, remember what the parts of a window surround are properly called
Sit down and learn them, I shall be round to test you
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations
How high relief differs from bas-relief, as shown by a Moscow metro composition
I do not understand why everyone is writing about the return of the bas-relief with Stalin at Taganskaya station, when it is a HIGH RELIEF, not a bas-relief: two fundamentally different kinds of sculptural image. Let me explain the difference. A high relief (haut-relief, or alto-rilievo)
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"The Last Judgement": a fresco by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, painted in 1885–1896 for St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv
"The Last Judgement" is a fresco by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, painted in 1885–1896 for St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv. The artist later painted a picture on the same subject for the Church of St George in Gus-Khrustalny
Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage · Paris · Rome
“They say you have abandoned the idea of transporting Trajan's Column? To tell the truth, the undertaking would have cost us very dear”
«They say you have abandoned the idea of transporting Trajan's Column? To tell the truth, the undertaking would have cost us very dear» It beggars belief, but the French really did intend to carry Trajan's pillar off from Rome to Paris as a trophy during the
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Bilbo Baggins's home Bag End in Hobbiton on a plan by Emil Jensen
The Shire? Baggins? Quite some pile Old Bilbo has got himself
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Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Region
Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Region. The Church of Saints Faith, Hope, Love and their Mother Sophia
Archaeology · Architecture · Paris
Buried cities, of course, are not so straightforward
Excavations in Paris, not far from the city's oldest fountain, the Fountain of the Innocents, show what complex feats of engineering lie beneath the visible part of the city. Under every quarter there are, quite literally, unbroken foundations on piles, no smaller than the houses above ground
Architecture · Madrid · Society
Soviet aid to Republican Spain and Soviet symbols in Madrid in 1937
Did you know that the Gran Vía, Madrid's main street, was renamed in 1937 Gran Vía Avenida de Rusia, Russia Avenue, and soon afterwards Avenida de la Unión Soviética, Soviet Union Avenue? Shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, sympathy with and interest in the workers&
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Rome
Pope Francis buried in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome's oldest church of the Virgin Mary
Before Santa Maria Maggiore, where Pope Francis was laid to rest yesterday, there were, naturally, queues many hours long. It is one of the four major basilicas of Rome, but despite its pilgrimage status, large queues did not usually gather here outside the church festivals. Now, I suspect, the beaten