Architecture · Art · Heritage
Allegory of March, fresco in the Hall of the Months in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara. The Salone dei Mesi (Hall of the Months) is one of the masterpieces of Italian palace architecture, famous for the allegorical frescoes symbolising the months on the walls of a hall 24 metres long, 11
NB! · Architecture · Art · Moscow
Smalti mosaic panels after sketches by Alexander Deineka on the vaults of Mayakovskaya metro station. One of the most beautiful details of the Moscow Metro
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Architecture · Art · Mores · Paris
Maison de Verre, the House of Glass: Pierre Chareau's ambitious and avant-garde project in Paris, at 31 Rue Saint-Guillaume. The house was built between 1928 and 1932 for Dr Jean Dalsace, a physician and well-known Communist, and a close friend of the designer Pierre Chareau,
Architecture · Art · Paris · People
Furniture by the French architect and designer Pierre Chareau, 1920s and 1930s. Today the pieces of furniture and decor created by Chareau sell for tens of thousands of euros. Even the most modest of them, a small paper holder, went at auction in 2021 for 8 thousand. The gallery shows
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Maiden Castle in Dorchester, England, is the largest Iron Age fortification in Europe. The castle was built in the 600s BC and is, in principle, still fit for its original purpose: one need only add a palisade and a few simple buildings, and voilà, ready for defence!
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This house has gone mad. A superb piece of street art on the blind end wall of a multi-storey block of flats in the town of Zheleznodorozhny, by the artist Shozy.
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Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
The most beautiful of Romania's churches, a pearl of Moldavian architecture, the Church of Saint George, built in 1488 and painted both inside and out. It stands in the Voroneț convent for women. A UNESCO World Heritage Site. The chief distinguishing feature of the frescoes is held to
Architecture · Books · London · Museums
The British Library building with a dome 45 metres in diameter, built in the 1850s. Or, to be precise, the circular Reading Room of the British Museum, with iron bookshelves running round its perimeter. The total length of the Reading Room's shelving is 25 kilometres. A considerable area
Architecture · Geography · Science · Nature
The German medieval town of Nördlingen is built in the crater of a meteorite that fell 15 million years ago and left a mark 25 km in diameter. The walls of all the town's buildings are filled with micro-diamonds: the rock from which the local terrain is
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