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Five El Greco paintings in Russian museums and the history of their arrival
By various estimates, El Greco's surviving painted oeuvre today comprises between 137 and 300 pictures. Russian museums hold only 5 canvases by El Greco: 3 in the Hermitage, 1 in Nizhny Novgorod and 1 in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The first El Greco picture purchased
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Memorial to Rosa Luxemburg at the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, where her body was thrown in 1919
Memorial to Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin beside the Landwehr Canal, where she was murdered on 15 January 1919 together with Karl Liebknecht. The car in which they were being taken to prison was attacked. Rosa's body was thrown into the canal over this very railing, in which the
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Heritage · Rome
The Arch of Constantine in Rome beside the Colosseum, shielded from bombing during the Second World War
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage
Ancient Egyptian wig 3,900 years old in the British Museum collection
Can you imagine that this wig is 3,900 years old? This ancient Egyptian wig from the collection of the British Museum dates to the 12th Dynasty and was acquired in the nineteenth century. Naturally, the wig owes its superb state of preservation to restoration, so perhaps not every hair
Archive · Books · London · Observations · Heritage · Society
The Ministry of Justice in England is planning to digitise historical documents from its archives
The Ministry of Justice in England is planning to digitise historical documents from its archives. We are speaking of wills covering at least the last two hundred years. This is held to be a boon for historians and genealogists, who will gain access to the documents. Where does this initiative
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
New look for the rooster as the decor is recreated after the original was lost in a fire
It is disconcerting that the new symbol of Notre-Dame de Paris differs so greatly from the original figure made by the French sculptor Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, author of the statues of the twelve apostles at the foot of the spire. And yet one may see a certain logic in
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
A cockerel has been restored to the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, bearing sacred relics: one of the seventy thorns of the Crown of Thorns, a particle of the relics of Saint Genevieve and a particle of the relics of Saint Denis of Paris
The cathedral's new emblem also has two openings, in which reliquary capsules are placed. The figure has been blessed by the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Laurent Ulrich
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
A cross blessed by Benedictine monks is placed on the restored spire of Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame de Paris is once more beneath the sign of the Cross. Today a cross, blessed by Benedictine monks, was set atop the restored spire. Formerly the tip of the spire bore a metal casket in the form of a cockerel, which held three important relics of Notre-Dame:
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Art Nouveau shop front in the French town of Douai, designed by Albert Peupé in 1906
NB! · Archaeology · Heritage · Nature
Stonehenge Dusted with Snow
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"Do not let deceptive plans for building a new world distract your energy from saving what remains of the old"
Winston Churchill