Architecture · Heritage · Society
Federation Council approves law on leasing cultural heritage sites under concession agreements. The law is intended to attract more private investment for the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage sites. Concessionaires will be obliged to carry out restoration and conservation work on such sites, observing the requirements of the norms
Archaeology · Cinema · Observations · Heritage
Plunderers of Etruscan Tombs Wanted by Police. The Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, has announced that the Italian authorities have put a stop to illegal excavations of an Etruscan burial site in Umbria, and that the police are now searching for two Etruscan treasure hunters. The wanted men are
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
One of Russia's Most Famous Prisons to Be Sold Off for Museum Complexes and Art Venues. It became known in November 2022 that the Kresty remand prison in Saint Petersburg, built in 1884–1892 to a design by the architect Antony Tomishko, is to be sold, and quite
Art · Museums · Heritage · Paris
The Louvre Shows the Reverse of the Mona Lisa. during the annual examination of the Mona Lisa to check its condition by the specialists responsible for the conservation of this masterpiece
The East · Observations · Heritage · People · Nature
A friend on Insta posted a photo of the memorial stele to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the Majorelle Garden, not far from their villa Oasis in Marrakech, and I noticed the plaque: I remember it used to say simply "In memoriam Yves Saint Laurent", at
Architecture · Monarchies · Moscow · Heritage
The Red Gate was the first triumphal arch in Russia. The original, Petrine arch on Myasnitskaya Street was built of wood after 1709, and it burned down and was rebuilt more than once. In Catherine's reign the arch was pulled down and built anew. But under Anna Ioannovna
NB! · Art · Heritage · People
Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
In the Neskuchny Garden, Count Orlov's grotto, recognised as a cultural heritage site of federal significance, has been restored for the first time. Its viewing platform opens onto the Moskva River, Catherine's Pond and Count Orlov's Summer House. The structure appeared here at the
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
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
Faith · Art · Heritage · People
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
Faith · Heritage · Science · Rome
For the first time in 150 years, tourists and residents of Rome can see the wooden throne of Saint Peter the Apostle, previously hidden within the Chair of Saint Peter in the apse of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Flying to Rome at once! The relic was
Art · Museums · Heritage · People
Lotte Laserstein painted "Evening over Potsdam" in 1930, in response to the Nazi Party winning 18% of the vote at the elections. When these people came to power, Lotte, the first woman admitted to the Berlin Academy of Arts and a graduate with distinction, was persecuted as a