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Mary Magdalene Did Not Recognise the Risen Christ and Took Him for the Gardener. The motif of the risen and unrecognised Christ recurs several times in the Gospel accounts, but it is in the guise of a gardener that the Saviour is at his most enigmatic. Mary did not recognise
Art · Moscow · Museums
Recognised? This is "Rozanova Dancing". The artist Varvara Stepanova has drawn the artist Olga Rozanova. A little masterpiece from the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova" at the Pushkin Museum, Gallery of European and American Art
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The penitent harlot Thaïs burns her worldly goods under the guidance of her spiritual mentor Paphnutius. An illustration from the enigmatic manuscript of the "Smithfield Decretals", a compilation of legal texts commissioned by Pope Gregory IX and dated to the thirteenth century, southern France
NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The bathroom of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace. Eduard Petrovich Hau, 1850s
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Archaeology · Art
Two workmen have unearthed a 2,000-year-old sculpture of the Diadumenos on the Greek island of Delos, that is, a victorious athlete tying the red ribbon of triumph around his head. It is one of the many copies of a lost bronze original by the ancient Greek sculptor
NB! · Archaeology · Art
A delightful piece of work from the late 4th century BC. This bronze krater with Dionysian scenes was found in a burial near Thessaloniki. The craftsmen achieved its golden gleam through a high tin content
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Art · Museums · Paris
Collection of the Louvre
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Naples, photograph by Ferdinando Scianna, 1997. On the wall is a work by the painter Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Art · Observations · Humour
The drawing is called “Big Dreams”. The artist is Jean-Jacques Sempé, 1997 And how do your weekends begin?
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Some Sample Schemes of the Layout of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise according to the Text of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" Hell: 9 circles. Purgatory: 6 circles and 3 circles of Ante-Purgatory. Paradise: 9 levels. In Hell there is pitch darkness, in Limbo, half-light. In