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NB! · Art · Pop Culture · Humour
Artist Elena Sheidlina Reimagines Horace Slughorn's Attempt to Hide from the Death Eaters
The artist Elena Sheidlina has reimagined Horace Slughorn's attempt to hide from the Death Eaters. On this occasion, no dragon's blood was needed to discover the hiding place.
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies
Giuseppe Duprà painted a portrait of a child with a spear and a dog in 1766
Prince Maurizio Giuseppe of Savoy at the Age of 4. Portrait with a spear. Italian artist Giuseppe Duprà, 1766
NB! · Art · Observations
The Floating Diana from the Fresco in the Painter's House at Pompeii and Marc and Bella Flying over the Sky of Vitebsk in Marc Chagall's "Over the Town"
Art · Observations · Ethnography
Henri-Paul Motte depicts the druid rite of cutting mistletoe with a golden blade
The aesthetics of druid life always remind me of pictures of Ancient Rus'. Druids Cutting the Mistletoe on the Sixth Day of the Moon. Henri-Paul Motte (1846-1922) It is believed that sprigs of mistletoe were cut with a golden blade, after which cattle were offered in sacrifice
Art · London · Observations · Society · Humour
Britain Impoverished by the Liberals Begs on the Thames Embankment with Her Battered Lion, the Palace of Westminster in Ruins Behind Her
Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1891. On the whole, 130 years on, the subject is topical once more. Only now the old lady Britannia must also sit there with a black eye, courtesy of her cultural enrichers.
Art · Society · Saint Petersburg
Plate with portraits of the Decembrists made by the Leningrad Porcelain Factory in 1925
But you did not perish in vain: what you have sown will sprout. The Decembrists. Leningrad Porcelain Factory, 1925, and we are still waiting for the shoots
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums
Souls of the Righteous in the Hand of God on a 16th-Century “Last Judgement” Icon from Solvychegodsk
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God. Icon of the Last Judgement, 16th century, from the Annunciation Cathedral in the town of Solvychegodsk.
Art · Observations · Nature · Humour
Osborne’s painting “Cupboard Love” and the English idiom for self-interested love
Cupboard Love, Walter Osborne, 1886. In English the painting is called Cupboard Love, an idiom denoting self-interested affection. That is to say, the object of love is regarded as a source of benefits, namely as a cupboard stocked with tasty things. According to Osborne's conception, such is
Art · Observations · People
Louise Bourgeois: a work of art does not need to be explained; if you feel nothing about it, I cannot explain it to you; if it does not move you, I have failed
Well, then.
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums · People
An authentic dress of Empress Josephine and her portraits in a similar guise
Art · Museums
Claude Lalanne's 1976 cabbage on chicken legs at the Museum of Fine Arts in Agen
Cabbage on Chicken Legs. Claude Lalanne, 1976. Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen, Aquitaine, France