NB! · Faith · Observations · Rome

Snowballs in Saint Peter's Square in Rome, 2018

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

Man Created by Prometheus and Brought to Life by Athena

Man Created by Prometheus and Brought to Life by Athena. Ceiling painting in the Louvre. By Jean-Simon Berthélemy and Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1802 and 1826.

NB! · Archive · Observations · Paris

Paris ❤️ Photographs by Alain Cornu

A reddish-brown nude figure dives headfirst toward a strip of water beside a ladder-like tower; two bare trees and corner ornaments frame the cracked plaster slab.

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Fresco from the Tomb of the Diver at Paestum: a figure mid-dive

NB! · Geography · Maps

Topographical and Political Map of Africa

Miniature diorama in a display case: a golden lattice ship atop a hill, a helicopter beside it, tiny figures on the slope and the words VADA A BORDO CAZZO.

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Diorama of a lattice ship on a sandy hill with a helicopter

White model of a colonnaded building with a portico under a glass cover, with a garden and red-and-blue windsock cones in front. A screen below reads «Vitruvian Man».

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Ponomarev's Vitruvian Man model: museum building with red-and-blue windsocks

A long bed of blue glass shards with curved glass panels on metal fittings fills a museum hall. Round projections glow on the walls, and a visitor walks at right.

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Glass installation on a bed of blue glass shards in a museum hall

NB! · Geography · Moscow · Observations

They say Moscow is a big village, but I do not much care for the phrase, and it is not true at all

They say Moscow is a big village, but I do not much care for the phrase, and it is not true at all. The French rock musician Jacques Dutronc has a more accurate one: Corsica is a small continent, Europe is a large island. You can continue the analogy yourselves

NB! · Art · People

The Violet Wave, Georges Lacombe, 1895

NB! · Archive · Faith · Books · Observations

In a book of 1765 I came across an interesting supposition about the stature of Our Saviour Jesus Christ: three cubits, that is, about 183 cm

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