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A Nun of Diminished Social Responsibility Captured in Two Paintings, "Nun on Her Knees", by the Eighteenth-Century Austrian Court Painter Martin van Meytens
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Observations · Rome
The Galleon Fountain at the Casina of Pius IV in the Vatican is covered in ice
The frozen Galleon Fountain in the courtyard of the Casina of Pius IV in the Vatican usually fires water, "extinguishing the fire of war", in the phrase of Pope Urban VIII. But these days the galleon is sheathed in a crust of ice, which is more allegorical still
Archive · Faith · Museums · Heritage
After the Restoration the reliquary returned to Nantes, where it received little attention and was lost from view for many years, surfacing only in 1824, when it turned up in the hands of the porter of the town hall
After the Restoration the reliquary returned to Nantes, where it received little attention and was lost from view for many years, surfacing only in 1824, when it turned up in the hands of the porter of the town hall. Decades later, after long wanderings through museums and collections of jewels,
NB! · Faith · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris
The fate of the golden casket holding the heart of Anne of Brittany was a sorry one: after its desecration by vandals, the reliquary was sent to the melting pot
The fate of the golden casket holding the heart of Anne of Brittany was a sorry one: after its desecration by vandals, the reliquary was sent to the melting pot. By a miracle it ended up not as scrap gold but in the National Library in Paris
Aristocracy · Faith · Monarchies · Heritage · People
The heart of Anne of Brittany in its reliquary and its fate during the Revolution
Besides her political testament, Anne of Brittany left a worldly one: the Duchess asked that her heart be carried home to her native land and buried where her parents lay. The heart was placed in a golden reliquary measuring 15*12 cm, crowned with a coronet of clover leaves and
NB! · Faith · Museums · Observations · Heritage
I have a sudden longing to get to Rostov the Great and visit the Museum of Church Antiquities, where a carved altar cross of the 16th century, stolen in 1995, is once again on display
I have a sudden longing to get to Rostov the Great and visit the Museum of Church Antiquities, where a carved altar cross of the 16th century, stolen in 1995, is once again on display. Ticket: 70 roubles
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Jean Tassel, The Adoration of the Magi
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Paris
The central nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral can hold a twelve-storey building
Welcome to Notre-Dame! The central nave of the cathedral could hold a twelve-storey building
NB! · Faith · Art · Ethnography
A Sculptural Group at the Château de Fontainebleau Devoted to Saint Sylvester
A sculptural group at the Château de Fontainebleau devoted to Saint Sylvester. The pontiff is also venerated in the Orthodox Church, with his feast day on 2 January. He is regarded as the patron of domestic fowl, chickens in particular
NB! · Faith · Art · Moscow · Heritage
The Canopy over the Shrine of Metropolitan Peter
The canopy over the shrine of Metropolitan Peter. Russia, 1819. Dormition Cathedral, Moscow Kremlin
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Art · Museums · Rome
Porphyry bowl from Nero's Golden Palace in the rotunda of a Vatican museum
Porphyry bowl from Nero's Golden House, with a circumference of 13 metres. It is now in the Michelangelo Simonetti rotunda of the Belvedere Palace in the Vatican, home to the Museo Pio-Clementino (the museum of Clement XIV and Pius VI)