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“Herod, fearing deposition, killed children who are still being torn apart by bombs today; Pilate washed his hands, as we risk doing every day, until we reach the point of no return”
Pope Leo XIV on Netanyahu’s crimes and the complicity of the West
Architecture · Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Rome
Hall of Constantine in the Vatican, painted under five popes, and a restoration milestone
After ten years of painstaking restoration, the state Hall of Constantine in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican has regained its original splendour. The largest of the Raphael Rooms, named after the Roman emperor who granted Christians freedom of worship, was decorated under five pontiffs over the course of the
Aristocracy · Faith · Monarchies · Paris · People
Nun Elizabeth, great-great-granddaughter of Napoleon I, and the Leuchtenberg family
In 2013, at the Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God in Bussy-en-Othe, some hundred kilometres from Paris, the nun Elizabeth of Leuchtenberg peacefully departed to the Lord. She was one of the last Russian nuns of the first wave of emigration and, at the same
Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Books · Moscow · Museums · Mores · Paris
A selection of articles on museum forgeries, etiquette, architecture and cinema
June's days are running out, so here is a round-up of this month's publications. The June digest takes in literary parallels, architecture, vampires, henpecked husbands and the artefacts of the Louvre. 📌 In the Parnassian Mockingbird cinema rubric: a piece on the first vampire serial 📌 The
Faith · Art · Museums
Christ and Three Angels, Antonello da Messina, 1476
Museo Correr, Venice. Da Messina was a gifted painter of the Early Renaissance, a native of Sicily. He is credited with introducing oil painting to Italy, which he mastered thanks to the Netherlanders and to Jan van Eyck, acknowledged as its genius.
Architecture · Faith · Art
Mikhail Nesterov, “Saint Olga”, sketch for the murals of St Vladimir’s Cathedral in Kyiv, 1892
Saint Olga. Mikhail Nesterov. Sketch for the mural and the mural itself in St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv, 1892
Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
It Turns Out the Holy Synod of the ROC Has Established a Feast in Honour of the Return of Andrei Rublev's Icon "Trinity" to the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius on 22 June 2023
In the fifteenth century the icon stood in the iconostasis of the Trinity Cathedral of the Lavra, founded by St Sergius of Radonezh. After the Revolution it was removed from the monastery, and in 1929, after nine years spent in the museum at Zagorsk, it was transferred to the Tretyakov
Architecture · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
Yaroslavl's Church of John the Baptist in Deyneka's painting “Footballer”
The painting "Footballer" by Alexander Deineka, which can be seen at the artist's exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, depicts the bell tower of the Church of John the Baptist in Yaroslavl, the very one that appears on the 1,000-rouble banknote. The 45-
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
On 23 June, after six years of restoration and with the blessing of the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, the first of sixteen copper statues returned to its place on the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris
The first statue to be placed on the spire was that of Saint Thomas, and it is in many ways a symbolic choice. Saint Thomas is regarded as the patron saint of architects. The composition consists of figures of the 12 apostles and four symbolic figures of the evangelists: an
Archive · Faith · Monarchies
Oath of allegiance to Emperor Nicholas Pavlovich and Heir Alexander Nikolayevich
Solemn Promise to His Imperial Majesty the Sovereign Emperor and Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich. "I, the undersigned, promise and swear by Almighty God, before His Holy Gospel, that I desire and am bound to serve faithfully and without hypocrisy, and to obey in all things, His Imperial Majesty, my
Faith · Art · Museums
John the Forerunner
John the Forerunner. Icon from the iconostasis of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God at the Ferapontov Monastery. 1490s or 1502-1503. Attributed to Dionisius, the first Russian icon painter of secular status