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The Italian state will acquire Umberto Eco's library from his family and hand it over to the University of Bologna. Almost five years have passed since the death of the writer and philosopher. Italy's Ministry of Culture has signed an agreement with the scholar's
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Relief sold for $2 million. https://theparnassian.com/madonna-luki-della-robbia-kotoraia-budet-vystavlena-na-auktsione-sotbis-v-nachale-2021-goda-kak-ona-vygliadit-seichas-i-kak-vygliadela-do-restavratsii/
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Versailles in winter. The Staircase of a Hundred Steps above the orangeries
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The very room in which Catherine of Aragon, who to her last day called herself Queen of England, the first wife of Henry VIII, died on 7 January 1536 is now the office of the headmaster of the prestigious Kimbolton boarding school. So if the queen's ghost does
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The entrance to the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute building on Nakhimovsky Prospekt in Moscow has been fenced off; it is not in use at present. I took the trouble to walk over specially, to capture a living legend while it is still one. Last year there was talk of
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The pre-sale estimate for the maiolica is impressive, with figures of up to a million dollars being mentioned. That is a good deal for polychrome glazed terracotta of the Quattrocento, but it should be remembered that the work belongs to the master who all but created the style, and
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Will the cosiest district in Moscow turn into yet another cluster of glass skyscrapers? In Khamovniki, at the junction of Rossolimo Street and Olsufyevsky Lane, a residential complex a hundred metres tall may be built. That is 30 metres higher than the bell tower of the Novodevichy Convent. The house
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A magnificent mosaic of scenes showing the transport of exotic animals, 4th century AD, Villa del Casale, Sicily. I am particularly struck by the exhaustive information it gives on the clothing of the period, in both colours and details.
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A standpipe of 1902 in the centre of old Kolomna still works; its decorative panels record that this vital item of civic improvement is a gift from the hereditary honorary citizen Shevlyagina. In every age there has been no better way of leaving a good memory of oneself than to
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The remarkable Moscow scholar Maria Survillo has drawn attention to the destruction of trees on the grounds of the Donskoy Monastery. Dreadful, tragic, irreparable. How cynically and methodically the image of old Moscow and the evidence of its former beauty are being destroyed 😣 P.S. To the champions of the
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Is it right to connect the passage from the Gospel of Mark, in which Jesus speaks of the scribes in long robes and of the poor widow giving the temple her last mite, with the argument about the wealth of the Church against the backdrop of a world economic crisis?