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There is an old joke about the Parthenon: when they finally finish building it, it will look magnificent!
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Let us consider the superfluous man not through the Byronic hero of Romanticism, but through the fire-safety sensor in Queen Wilhelmina's salon at Soestdijk Palace: it is, of course, necessary, but to look appropriate, it…
Architecture · Faith · Art · Rome
Andrea Pozzo's Baroque Frescoes in the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome, Late 17th Century
It is not the Sistine Chapel, but there are no queues here either. The Baroque frescoes in the Jesuit church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome, painted by Andrea Pozzo at the end of the 17th century, are devoted to the divine light which, through the teaching of the Church,
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society
Nizhny Novgorod packhouses named best creative space by two awards
Not for nothing did I admire the Nizhny Novgorod Pakgauzy: by the end of the year they had won two prestigious awards at once. The first: Creative Space at the Russian Creative Awards, where they outstripped both Sevkabel Port and the Oktava cluster. The second: the Snob "Made in
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Isadora Duncan at the Erechtheion Caryatid Porch on the Athenian Acropolis in 1920
Isadora Duncan and the female figures of the "Porch of the Caryatids" of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian Acropolis. The photograph was taken in 1920, that is, two years before the wedding of the American dancer and Sergei Yesenin, to whom Duncan was married until 1924.
NB! · Architecture · The East · Observations
Bukhara Is Beautiful 💜💙
NB! · Architecture · The East · Art · Museums · Observations
Painted ceiling of a hall in the Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan
In the Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan, a single room is enough to fall irrevocably in love. No exhibits, guided tours or wall labels are required: just lift your head
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Baroque pulpit shaped like a ship with an anchor and Archangel Michael, Irsee Abbey
A pulpit symbolising hope, in the form of a ship's prow with a raised anchor and a golden sculpture of the Archangel Michael, in Irsee Abbey, Germany. Church Baroque: a love for all time
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The Soviet Pavilion at the Brussels World Exhibition of 1958
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The ruins of the 6th-century Church of Saint John the Theologian in Selçuk, Turkey
The ruins of the 6th-century Church of Saint John the Theologian in Selçuk, Turkey. According to one version, the church stands on the site of the burial of John the Theologian
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