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El Greco depicts Saint Sebastian at the moment of revelation beneath a cloudy sky

Christie's in London to offer this remarkable Saint Sebastian by the great El Greco, thought to date from 1600, from a private collection. It is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the known portraits of Saint Sebastian created by El Greco. The saint is shown against an overcast, clouded

NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Faith · The East

The Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon: Photographs of the Late Nineteenth Century

A huge replica of Noah's Ark afloat on the water, with a tugboat beside it and a road and lawn on the shore.

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Humour

A replica of Noah's Ark in the Netherlands is put up for sale for 350,000 euros

A replica of Noah's Ark is for sale in the Netherlands. The price is 350,000 euros.

NB! · Faith · Art · People · Humour

Yet Another Cringeworthy Work by Maurizio Cattelan, Entitled La Nona Ora, Shows Pope John Paul II Felled by a Meteorite

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Patriarch Kirill Awards Emir Kusturica the Order of St Seraphim of Sarov, First Class

Patriarch Kirill has awarded Emir Kusturica the Order of St Seraphim of Sarov, First Class. The award was timed to coincide with the director's 70th birthday. The congratulatory address states that the order was conferred on the filmmaker for his contribution to the preservation of traditional values

Faith · The East · Books

The Bhagavad Gita on the immortality of the soul and endurance of grief and pleasure

You grieve for those not worth grieving for, though your thoughts are the thoughts of wise men. The wise man grieves neither for death nor for life. Never was there a time when I, and you, and all the Princes of the earth did not exist, and never shall we

Black and white photograph of a granite relief with four standing baboon figures in a museum display.

NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Museums · Paris · Nature

Relief of four baboons from the Temple of Amun at Thebes, Louvre collection

Baboons worshipping the sun. Stone relief from the Theban temple of Amun, Louvre collection

Stone head of a bearded man with wavy hair and closed eyes, a fragment of medieval sculpture against a brown background.

Faith · Art · Museums · Paris

Recently Found Medieval Sculpture from Notre-Dame at the Musée de Cluny

Head of Christ with closed eyes, 1230s. From the section of recently discovered medieval sculpture from Notre-Dame at the Musée de Cluny

Faith · Monarchies · Society · Paris

In 2021 Emmanuel Macron changed the shade of blue on the national flag, explaining that he wished to return to the state the symbol of the French Revolution, which raised this banner

In 2021 Emmanuel Macron changed the shade of blue on the national flag, explaining that he wished to return to the state the symbol of the French Revolution, which raised this banner. Yet each of the colours taken separately carries anything but revolutionary connotations. Red goes back to the Capetian

NB! · Archive · Architecture · Faith · Art · Saint Petersburg

Huge cartoons with the composition for the painting of the drum of the main dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral

Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg

Brullov painting from a Brussels church confiscated from collector Pevzner

The Apparition of "Christ in the Tomb" at the Russian Museum, at the "Great Karl" Exhibition. I had not expected to see this painting at the grand jubilee exhibition of Karl Bryullov. The previously unknown canvas by Bryullov, which has now featured in legal proceedings for

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The Life of Saint Martin, the Cloak Story and the Relic of the French Kings

Saint Martin and the Beggar. El Greco, 1597-1599. The episode of the cloak and the beggar is the best known in the life of Saint Martin. The Serbian bishop Nikolai Velimirovich gives the following version: Martin was born to pagan parents in the Pannonian town of Sabaria in the