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The Swedish Lion, or the Lion of Gripsholm Castle, was once a favourite of King Frederick I, and is today one of the emblems of the royal residence, alongside its portrait gallery, its theatre and its 18th-century interiors
Faith · Art · Mores · Ethnography
Norwegian likvaka dance beside the dead persisted until the end of the 19th century
The traditional Norwegian dance of the dead, the likvaka, went like this: a crowd of young people gathered in the house of the deceased and danced to lively music, shaking the floor so hard that the corpse lying there in its bed or coffin jumped. Sometimes the dance was arranged
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Saint George, a curly-haired little boy, 15th century, Sartorio Museum, Trieste, Italy
NB! · Archive · Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
A photograph from the Russian Museum archive: this is how large canvases were prepared for conservation and transport, rolled onto perfectly smooth plywood drums, interleaved with thick paper, with the edges of the canvases stitched together
Archive · Art · Museums · Humour
Repin centenary exhibition in Perm in 1944 from the evacuated works of the Russian Museum
The centenary of Ilya Repin's birth in 1944 was marked by a large exhibition at the Perm Regional Museum, assembled from the holdings of the Russian Museum, evacuated to the city in 1941. In all, some 200 works by Repin found themselves in evacuation: watercolours, paintings, drawings. The
Archaeology · Art · Museums
Fragments of the marble copy of Lysippos's Granicus battle group commissioned by Lucullus
In the 1st century BC the Roman general Lucullus commissioned a marble copy of the bronze group by the celebrated sculptor Lysippos, which commemorated Alexander the Great's victory over the Persians at the Battle of the Granicus. Of the marble statues there survive a couple of torsos, a
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Four-headed sculpture of the Virgin and Child from Provence, 14th century, in the Musée Pierre de Luxembourg
Virgin and Child: an enigmatic sculpture with four heads. Provence, second half of the 14th century. Musée Pierre de Luxembourg. It may have been set in a portal and divided down the middle by a screen
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The Archangel Gabriel from the Antalya Archaeological Museum
The Archangel Gabriel from the Antalya Archaeological Museum. The relief bears not only Greek lettering but also Arabic, over the medallion in Gabriel's hands
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Lion over a fallen knight at the base of a presbytery column in Modena Cathedral
The lion "vanquishes" the knight. Though, judging by the expression on its face, it has already won. The sculpted base of a presbytery column in Modena Cathedral (the Duomo). Incidentally, another dramatic lion has triumphed over a knight's horse
Faith · Art · Ethnography
The Lamb on the Cross in Church Embroidery and the Book with Seven Seals
Quite often in Western churches one comes across an image of a lamb lying on a cross amid golden rays: it symbolises the sacrifice and death of Jesus Christ. In fact, until the fifth century Jesus himself was not depicted on the crucifix; now and then his presence was indicated
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