NB! · Archive · The East

The Siamese Army with War Elephants in 1875

White meadowsweet flower clusters on reddish stems among green meadow grass.

NB! · Observations · Nature

Meadowsweet, also called Filipendula, as a fragrant and medicinal wildflower

The beautiful meadowsweet, also known as queen of the meadow and devil-gnawer. Very lovely, fragrant and curative. But since this is not a channel about folk medicine, I shall simply delight you with the perfection of a wild flower

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, Gustave Courbet, 1857

Sepia photograph of rooftops and a broad road leading toward the Colosseum on the horizon; a column and excavated areas in the foreground.

NB! · Archive · Architecture · Rome

Aerial view of the Roman Forum and the Colosseum, vintage photograph

NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage

The City of Dreams: Athens in the Second Century

NB! · Architecture · Art · Observations

Two Eras Meet: A Cosmic Bas-Relief on the Wall of a Shopping Centre in Kaluga, Tsiolkovsky's Hometown

Map of Europe with most of the territory in yellow for butter, the south in green for olive oil, and a mixed band between them.

NB! · Geography · Observations · Mores

Map of Butter and Olive Oil Consumption Across European Regions

Olive or butter? Which fat is mainly used in the different countries of Europe? As you can see, butter wins, though neither palm oil nor sunflower oil took part in the sample

NB! · Faith · Art · Museums

The Tuscan town of Empoli is famous not only for its football club, but also for a quattrocento sculpture of Saint Sebastian by the Florentine Antonio Rossellino, regarded as one of the benchmark depictions of the nude male body of the fifteenth century

Engraving “Plan et Élévation d'une Salle de Bain”: an alcove with drapery and two side doors above, a room plan with an oval bath below.

NB! · Archive · Architecture · Mores

Engraving with plan and elevation of an eighteenth-century bathroom with side portals

Plan of an eighteenth-century bathroom. An interesting solution with side portals through which one may enter and leave

NB! · Archive · Observations · Rome

Rome in 1950 as a reminder of how beautiful the world was before globalisation

Vault mosaic of Orpheus with a lyre and Eurydice in a green robe on a gold ground, framed by ornament and masks.

NB! · Architecture · Art · Paris

Mosaic of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Palais Garnier in Paris

Orpheus and Eurydice. Mosaic in the Palais Garnier, Paris

NB! · Moscow · Heritage · Society

🕯️On the eve of 22 June, a memorial to the Great Patriotic War was opened on the Moskva River embankment in Muzeon Park

🕯️On the eve of 22 June, a memorial to the Great Patriotic War was opened on the Moskva River embankment in Muzeon Park. Set into the granite parapet are perpetual lamps, one for each day of the war: from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.