Interviews · Art · Heritage
Today we talk to the art historian Sergey Popov, founder of the pop/off/art gallery, about how the gallery works with artists' legacies. On heirs Working with the heirs of contemporary artists continues, to some extent, the tasks set by the artist himself: sales to the very best
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Rome
One of the Most Extraordinary Churches in Rome: the Basilica of San Saba on the Lesser Crest of the Aventine Hill. Mere walls of old plaster and a mere floor, one would think; yet in the Roman church of San Saba they form a veritable chronicle of styles. The church
NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage · Rome
Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
March draws to a close, 63 days remain until summer. Let us recall together the most interesting pieces on the channel over the past month: 📌 A photo chronicle of Moscow in the pictures of an American spy. Unique colour shots of the capital in the 1950s. 📌 Plywood night bombers against
NB! · Architecture · Heritage · Paris
Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage · Paris · Saint Petersburg
One of the most beautiful bridges in Paris, the Pont Alexandre III, was built to celebrate the strengthening of the diplomatic alliance between France and Russia. Incredibly costly, difficult to execute and superbly decorated, the Alexander Bridge remains to this day one of the principal sights of Paris. Construction ran
Art · Heritage · Science
An X-ray of Joan Miró's painting Pintura ("Painting", 1925–1927) has shown that it was painted over a portrait of the artist's mother, writes Artguide. In recent examinations using X-rays, specialists discovered beneath the paint layer of the work a portrait of
Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage · Paris
This is how the Vendôme Column might have looked, erected by Napoleon in 1807 in honour of the victory at Austerlitz. The associations are no accident: the form does indeed match the message. The original in the end differs little from the prototype, save for a somewhat widened viewing platform
Art · Museums · Heritage · People
In the storeroom of a small museum in northern France, a painting by the Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana has been found. The picture had been lying about in storage for the past 150 years. Fontana is considered one of the first professional women artists in Europe, and the discovery of
Architecture · Geography · Heritage
The oldest surviving lighthouse in the world, A Coruña in Spain, was built by the Romans as early as the 1st century AD. Since then the lighthouse has undergone some changes, having been raised in height and strengthened, but its architectural core has remained unchanged. It is believed that the
In the Press · Art · Museums · Heritage
Norfolk resident Barbara de Dozsa refuses to return Antonio Solario's "Madonna and Child", stolen in 1973 from the Civic Museum of Belluno (Italy), reports Artguide. Some time ago Mrs de Dozsa's husband acquired the work without knowing its provenance. The painting, which appeared on
Archaeology · Archive · The East · Geography · Heritage
Today, before the rock-cut temple of Nefertari, the first wife of Ramesses II, there lies not the bank of the Nile but desert. How did this come about? Let us see. The temple was built in the mid-thirteenth century BC, after the victory over the Hittites, and was