Museums · Heritage · Ethnography

Fowler Museum at UCLA transferred 11 ceremonial objects to Australia's Larrakia community

The Fowler Museum returns 11 valuable artefacts to an Aboriginal community in Australia. On 20 May the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) handed over 11 objects to the Lawrakia community in the Northern Territory of Australia. Among them are a headband made of kangaroo teeth

Monarchies · Heritage · Mores · Humour

Bust of Peter the Great in Brussels and the legend of the Tsar's 1717 visit to the fountain

Does the bust of Peter the First in Brussels stand on the spot where the Tsar was sick after a drinking bout in April 1717? The bust is said to have been accompanied by a Latin inscription: "On 16 April 1717, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,

Aristocracy · Monarchies · Heritage · Society

A legal dispute of almost a century over ownership of the property of the Hohenzollern royal dynasty has come to an end: the German federal government, together with the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, has reached an agreement with the descendants of th

The dispute began in 1926, when a treaty on the division of property after the fall of the monarchy in 1918 was signed between representatives of the House and the former state of Prussia. However, since the Hohenzollern property had been confiscated before the agreement was concluded, the legal questions

Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage · Paris · Rome

“They say you have abandoned the idea of transporting Trajan's Column? To tell the truth, the undertaking would have cost us very dear”

«They say you have abandoned the idea of transporting Trajan's Column? To tell the truth, the undertaking would have cost us very dear» It beggars belief, but the French really did intend to carry Trajan's pillar off from Rome to Paris as a trophy during the

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage

Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Region

Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Region. The Church of Saints Faith, Hope, Love and their Mother Sophia

Archive · Art · Heritage · Science

Getty Research Institute opens access to over 12 million records in updated Provenance Index

The Getty Research Institute has updated its Provenance Index (Getty Provenance Index). The new version offers open access to more than 12 million records drawn from archival inventories, auction catalogues and art dealers' account books, reaching back as far as the sixteenth century. The development of the project reflects

NB! · Archaeology · Archive · The East · Heritage

The Ruins of Persepolis, Photographed around 1923

The Sistine Chapel with a metal framework and protective layer on the floor, and the fresco “The Last Judgement” on the far wall.

Faith · Observations · Heritage · Rome · Humour

A Second Floor Level Is Being Built in the Sistine Chapel to Protect the Historic Pavement During the Conclave

A False Floor Goes Up in the Sistine Chapel, and Then We Shall Be Told: Heaven forbid, no under-the-carpet manoeuvres! The floor of the Sistine Chapel has been covered with a protective layer, and a platform is being erected on top of it to serve as a second

Archive · Art · Heritage

Relocation of Michelangelo’s David to the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence in 1873 and its replacement by a copy

The removal of Michelangelo's David from Piazza della Signoria to the Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1873. A copy was set up in the square in place of the original; otherwise, in all likelihood, the legendary sculpture would by now have suffered badly

Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Rome

Pope Francis buried in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome's oldest church of the Virgin Mary

Before Santa Maria Maggiore, where Pope Francis was laid to rest yesterday, there were, naturally, queues many hours long. It is one of the four major basilicas of Rome, but despite its pilgrimage status, large queues did not usually gather here outside the church festivals. Now, I suspect, the beaten

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The Athenian Acropolis in Photographs of the 1890s and Today

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The Art Newspaper Russia Awards for 2024 Presented

The Art Newspaper Russia Awards for 2024 have been presented. The annual ceremony took place in the hall of the Pushkin Theatre, and I congratulate the whole team, the editorial board of the newspaper and, personally, Milena Orlova and Tatiana Sakhokia on this important event in Russian culture. The winners