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“Reigning Queens” in the Pop Art Style

“Reigning Queens” in the pop art style. In the Netherlands, at Het Loo Palace, a series of portraits of women on the throne, created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, has been put on show. At that time four queens headed monarchies: Elizabeth, the United Kingdom; Beatrix, the Netherlands;

Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage

Excavations ahead of the rebuilding of the River Station in Tver have uncovered 22 thousand unique objects dating from the 13th to the 20th century

"Among other things, an ice-house (cellar) from the 16th century has been discovered," say the local authorities in a statement. As for the restoration of the architectural monument, the station building will be built in the same style as its predecessor, erected in 1935-1938 to a

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The Salad-Green Sitting Room of Virginia and Leonard Woolf in Their Seventeenth-Century Home, Monk's House, East Sussex

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Sometimes I think that if this house is ever scrubbed clean and repainted, it will no longer be the same, and we shall not be able to love each other as before

Sometimes I think that if this house is ever scrubbed clean and repainted, it will no longer be the same, and we shall not be able to love each other as before. Please, do not show it to the municipal services for at least 15 years 🥲💔

The East · Art · Heritage · Saint Petersburg

The restoration of the celebrated sphinxes by the Egyptian Bridge in Saint Petersburg, which has dragged on for almost three years, nears completion

In Saint Petersburg, the restoration of the celebrated sphinxes by the Egyptian Bridge, which has dragged on for almost three years, is nearing completion. The second stage of the work has brought back the sculptures’ historical colouring. At the start of the first stage of restoration, in the spring of

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Arrival of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna at the site of the foundation of the church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky (Nikolo-Bargradsky) at the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society

Arrival of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna at the site of the foundation of the church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky (Nikolo-Bargradsky) at the Imperial Palestine Society. The church was blown up in 1932

Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage

Swiss artists raised the Cathedral of St Gall into the air for its anniversary

I tried to imagine what it would look like if one of Russia's chief churches, St Basil's Cathedral, were made into a hot-air balloon. Swiss artists once raised one of their country's symbols into the air in just this manner: the Abbey Cathedral

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The sorry state of the medieval and Renaissance stained glass in one of the oldest churches of France, the church of Saint-Pierre in Chartres, dating from the thirteenth century, is a sad testimony to the French Republic's authorities drifting ever furthe

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The House with the Unicorn in Nashchokinsky Lane was built by the architect Shchekotov in 1897 with Gothic motifs, but the unicorn appeared considerably later, as did the gargoyles: these decorative elements arrived on the façade after the building's reno

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Colossi of Memnon at Thebes and the sound of the northern statue split by the AD 19 earthquake

The 18-metre Colossi of Memnon, guarding the entrance to the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep and depicting the pharaoh Amenhotep III, face east. Built of sandstone in 1350 BC in the necropolis of the city of Thebes. During an earthquake in the year 19 the northern colossus cracked, and from

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The 80-metre Leaning Tower of Zaragoza, built in 1504 and dismantled in 1892

The Leaning Tower of Zaragoza was almost 30 metres taller than Pisa's. Its height was 80 metres. True, it was built 330 years after the Pisan one, in 1504, and almost at once it began to lean. For hundreds of years, however, there was no threat of collapse.

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Layard found the Library of Ashurbanipal in 1849 and brought over 25,000 tablets to England

This Is How the British Museum Displays the Library of Nineveh. The legendary Library of King Ashurbanipal was discovered by the Englishman Austen Henry Layard in 1849. He managed to unearth one part of the vast library, which had been kept in the north-west palace on the banks of