Architecture · Faith · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Incidentally, exactly a month ago, on 18 March, another very significant church in Paris, Saint-Sulpice, caught fire, also during restoration work. Fortunately, the blaze was quickly put out; the doors, part of the façade and part of the interior decoration suffered, and the church is now being restored. What
Architecture · The East · Heritage
The Rolex clock tower in central Beirut on Place de l’Etoile, at the beginning of the twentieth century, one of the tallest buildings in the city. This district was the seat of the French government of Lebanon. During the war the whole district, like much of the city, was
Architecture · Art · Heritage · Paris
Six independent women restorers are repairing a symbol of France: Marianne from the sculptural group La Marseillaise, which stands on the Arc de Triomphe. Marianne's face suffered badly during the Yellow Vests demonstration of 1 December 2018, and photographs of her with a smashed cheek went round the
Archaeology · Art · Heritage · Rome
The back of the Ostia altar gave it a second name and a second life: it shows the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, which is why the monument is also called the altar of the twins. This subject, too, is bound up with the name of Mars, who, according
NB! · Faith · Museums · Heritage · People
The terrifying mask of the Scottish prophet lay hidden for hundreds of years, kept in secret by the Peden family as the most precious relic of their famous forebear, and was shown to the public only in 1840. It is now on display in the National Museum of Scotland
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Observations · Heritage · Rome
Do you see the empty niche in the upper part of the façade of Santa Maria in Aracoeli? It was here that the first public clock of Rome was installed, in 1412, 42 years after Paris. But in 1806 it was decided to move the clock to the tower of
NB! · Art · Heritage · Society · Paris
Marianne, victim of circumstance. The sculpture, a symbol of the French Republic, in the display at the Arc de Triomphe was badly damaged during clashes between demonstrators and police in central Paris
NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Russia's first interior finished in artificial marble: the rooms of the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum. Of genuine marble here there are only the fireplace surrounds. The idea of such a scheme of decoration belonged to Catherine the Great
Faith · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
At Kutuzov's tomb in the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg hang the keys to fortresses and cities liberated by the Russian army in the war of 1812. In the left niche are the keys to Geertruidenberg, Bremen and Avesnes. In the right are those of Lübeck, Mons and
Faith · Museums · Heritage · Society
The General Assembly of the Union of Museums of Russia has discussed the thorny question of transferring museum property to the Church. At present, in particular, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Old Believer Church lay claim to the Dormition and Demetrius cathedrals of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve and
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Faith · Art · Heritage · Society
During the First World War, the parish priest of the village of Monbert, Father Frédéric Thibault, read out the dispatches from the front every week, told of what had befallen the local lads who had been called up, and held services for the wounded and the dead. When the war