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Cabinetmakers restore a seventeenth-century cabinet in a restoration workshop
In the restoration workshop. Cabinetmakers restore a seventeenth-century cabinet
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NB! · Architecture · Faith · Rome
This Is What Santa Maria sopra Minerva Looks Like Inside
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Museums · Observations
The first tier of the Temple of Minerva remained underground and is used as a cellar, as can be seen from a model in Assisi's rather neglected archaeological museum, which looks more like a mere warehouse of Roman finds
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Roman portico of the 1st century BC survives in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Assisi
Minerva: Between the Pizzeria and the Carabinieri Station. In the birthplace of Francis of Assisi there are, oddly enough, historic sites known for no connection with the saint's life. Crowds of pilgrims file past this small church at the beginning of Piazza del Comune on their way to
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The Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, with its Roman portico of the 1st century BC, in the Italian town of Assisi
NB! · Architecture · Paris
One of the Loveliest Pavilions Stands in the Very Heart of Paris
One of the loveliest pavilions stands in the very heart of Paris. The avenue of Nicholas II was renamed Alexander III, and in 1966 Winston Churchill
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Monarchies · Paris
The Russian Pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair stood on the Avenue Nicolas II, which ran from the bridge of Alexander III, whose foundation stone the Emperor had laid, to the Champs-Élysées
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I have prepared a note on the Château de Chambord, whose compositional centre is the famous staircase after Leonardo's sketches
I have prepared a note on the Château de Chambord, whose compositional centre is the famous staircase after Leonardo's sketches. The staircase is so contrived that those ascending by its two separate flights will never cross paths, yet will meet at the top
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Francis I's Salamander at Blois, the Valois Family Château
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Coffered Ceiling of a Gallery at Château de Chambord with Salamanders and the Monogram of Francis I
The gallery at the Château de Chambord, founded by Francis I. The gallery ceiling is adorned with bas-reliefs of the royal salamander and the monogram F
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Balzac's Drawing Room and Bedroom at the Château de Saché, Where He Lived for Seven Years
The modest drawing room of the small Château de Saché, where Balzac lived for seven years. His bedroom under the attic is far humbler still: a bed and a table in a cramped little room. But a fair number of the writer's personal belongings have survived here
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The Château de Saché belonged to a friend of Balzac's father; the writer lived here for a time and wrote "Père Goriot" and "The Lily of the Valley"
The Château de Saché belonged to a friend of Balzac's father; the writer lived here for a time and wrote "Père Goriot" and "The Lily of the Valley". Balzac was perpetually short of money, and either borrowed from friends or begged a roof