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
Faith · Monarchies · Society · Paris
In 2021 Emmanuel Macron changed the shade of blue on the national flag, explaining that he wished to return to the state the symbol of the French Revolution, which raised this banner. Yet each of the colours taken separately carries anything but revolutionary connotations. Red goes back to the Capetian
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Wooden model of Bernini's equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Galleria Borghese. In the end the sculpture did not please the king, and he sent it off to the back of the park
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Peter the Great's lathe in Peter's Winter Palace. In all, the Hermitage has preserved 12 lathes from the workshop of Peter the Great; he used all of them, depending on the task and the material that needed working, wood or bone.
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Strange reading, and, as usual, on the word of unnamed sources. Ah, those masters of journalism! As for Trump, on the contrary, according to many courtiers, and indeed to any attentive observer, it is clear that the Queen was fond of Trump because he was unretouched and genuine during his
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And also for forcing oneself to believe that this picture of a basket of plums was painted in 1629 by the French artist Louise Moillon! Louise Moillon won renown for her exact still lifes. In the course of her life she produced only some 40 canvases, but her talent was
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“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;
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Photograph from the exhibition "Andy Warhol's Queens", which includes a series of portraits of reigning queens
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The now non-reigning King of the Belgians, Albert II, aged 90, and his wife Queen Paola, aged 87. Married since 1959. Delightful 💞
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