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Four books on the Russian avant-garde, from the 1981 exhibition catalogue to Chernikhov

Yury Avvakumov, Russian architect, populariser of the concept of paper architecture, artist who has represented Russia three times at the Venice Biennale, and researcher who has worked for many years with the legacy of the Russian avant-garde and the them. The catalogue of the exhibition "Moscow-Paris. 1900-

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The Athenian Acropolis in Photographs of the 1890s and Today

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San Saba church in Rome, founded in the 6th century for Greek monks who fled Palestine

One of the Most Extraordinary Churches in Rome: the Basilica of San Saba on the Lesser Crest of the Aventine Hill. Mere walls of old plaster and a mere floor, one would think; yet in the Roman church of San Saba they form a veritable chronicle of styles. The church

Church interior with an altar and Chinese-style murals, three figures in red robes on the vault and a meal scene beneath them.

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Catholic church in Taiwan decorated in Chinese style after sketches by Gresnigt

Taiwan has a Catholic church in the Chinese style, inspired by sketches by Gresnigt. The apostles at the Last Supper here eat with chopsticks, and all the saints have faces resembling those of the Chinese

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Sketches for a Catholic church in the Chinese style, created by the Benedictine monk Adelbert Gresnigt and published in the bulletin of the Catholic University of Peking in the 1920s

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The Grodno Mona Lisa on the façade of an early twentieth-century fire tower

The Grodno Mona Lisa on the façade of an early twentieth-century fire tower. It is not the uniform that makes the man, but the man the uniform.

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Alberta Ferretti's Milan apartment opened to the public during Design Week

Our Milan walk continues. The magnificent interior in the photographs is the decor of one of the apartments of the designer Alberta Ferretti, used as a working space and closed to visitors on ordinary days. For Design Week, however, the celebrated studio Artemest furnished this remarkable space, and it was

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Design and contemporary art within the walls of a cultural centre housed in Milan's Palazzo Litta, where Napoleon once stayed

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On the second day of their Italian visit, King Charles III and Camilla toured the Colosseum

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The Vestibule of a Residential House in Old Bucharest

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Marie Antoinette's dairy near Rambouillet château, with a grotto and a sculpture of Amalthea

Émile Zola describes the château of Rambouillet, with its forest and surroundings, as a paradise to which one longs to flee from the heat of the stone corridors of Paris, in Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Paradise"). To this day it remains one of the most

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March draws to a close, 63 days remain until summer

March draws to a close, 63 days remain until summer. Let us recall together the most interesting pieces on the channel over the past month: 📌 A photo chronicle of Moscow in the pictures of an American spy. Unique colour shots of the capital in the 1950s. 📌 Plywood night bombers against