NB! · Art · Museums
Section
· 3414 stories
Art
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Heritage
Chryselephantine sculpture: from chrysos (gold) and elephantinos (ivory)
Chryselephantine sculpture: from chrysos (gold) and elephantinos (ivory). Statues with a wooden frame were covered in ivory and clothed in gold. Only fragments of these beautiful statues have survived to this day
NB! · Art · Humour
Head of a sculpture of Apollo with golden hair and inset eyes
The morning after a legendary party. Apollo
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Busts of Peter the Great by Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Caesarean and Baroque
The sculpture deserves a story of its own. If you are not lucky enough to see it at Versailles, be sure to look at the bust when it returns home to Saint Petersburg. It is one of two busts of Peter made by Rastrelli, but perhaps the most outstanding. In
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Society · Paris
A Baroque bust of Peter I by Rastrelli the Elder is on show at Versailles, at the exhibition opened by Putin and Macron to mark the monarch's sojourn in France
NB! · Art · London · Monarchies · People · Humour
this little hamster in a frock, with a curious trinket at his neck, is the future King Charles II of England (1630-1685), who will order the remains of Cromwell and his associates to be dug up and quartered
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
It took me a while to notice that the men on the plate are kissing
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome
The sculpture of Laocoön and his sons, found in Rome in 1506, is kept in the Vatican
The sculpture of Laocoön and his sons being killed by serpents was found in Rome in 1506. The work of the renowned Rhodian masters Athenodoros, Polydorus and Hagesandros is now kept in the Pio-Clementino Museum in the Vatican
Art · Books
Causes of the death of Laocoön's sons in Virgil and Sophocles
According to Virgil, for warning the Trojans not to bring the gigantic horse into the city, the gods sent two serpents to strangle the prophet Laocoön and his sons. Sophocles' version ties the punishment to the breaking of a prohibition on marriage and the desecration of the temple of
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
Frans van der Mijn
Frans van der Mijn. Allegory of Touch. Couldn't have put it better
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Science
The upper tier of the pectoral with the so-called scenes of Scythian life suggests that it may depict the legend of two brothers who set off in search of the golden fleece
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums
Griffins attacking a horse on a gold pectoral in a Ukrainian museum
The lower tier of the gold pectoral (weight 1.1 kg) shows animal scenes, in one of which griffins kill a horse. The necklace is an exhibit of the Ukrainian Museum of Historical Treasures