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Jean-Marc Nattier's Portrait of the Duke of Chaulnes as Hercules
The half-naked woman in rags, armed with a club, is in fact the Duchesse de Chaulnes as Hercules. It must be said that Jean-Marc Nattier, a painter well known among the aristocracy, made a better job of his portraits of Peter I and Catherine I
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Found my hairstyle of the day on a nameless queen in a fourteenth-century manuscript, while a dim-witted gatekeeper leans out of his window, ready to pass comment on our hairdresser
NB! · Faith · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The reliquary of Mary of Egypt recalled the "Saint Louis" exhibition in the Patriarch's Palace of the Moscow Kremlin, to which a glass casket from the Crown of Thorns was brought, but without the Crown, that is, simply an empty bit of glass
NB! · Archive · Observations · Mores · Humour
The Perils of Fashion, a Nineteenth-Century Depiction
The perils of fashion, a nineteenth-century depiction. Pity there is no such picture for brains
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Humour
Three terracotta phallic amulets found during excavations at Omrit in northern Israel
Three terracotta penis amulets have been found at excavations in Omrit in northern Israel. A fairly ordinary find for ancient Rome, with its obsession with phallic imagery, which dominated public life
NB! · Archive · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Do Read Item 17 of a Circus Programme from 1885
Do read item 17 of a circus programme from 1885. A HORSE named Blondin WALKS A TIGHTROPE AT A HEIGHT OF 6 METRES. The horses I know can only booze and retouch their photos for Instagram 🙄
NB! · Faith · Art · Monarchies · Museums
A unique fifteenth-century lamp with an amber sculpture of the Virgin Mary on a walrus-tusk pedestal belonged to Sophia, Queen of Bohemia, of the German house of Wittelsbach, who was known for her Hussite sympathies
NB! · Archaeology · Humour
A stone lady from a fifteenth-century Cistercian monastery in Irish Newry knows that the weekend is very nearly upon us 🌚
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Madonna and Child, St
Madonna and Child with Saints Peter, Augustine, Jerome and Magdalene. Alvise Vivarini gave the "sacred conversation" a new form: the Christ Child sits on a flat rock within a protective circle formed by the Madonna and the saints
NB! · Archive · Art · Books
In a French château, an inventory of the library has turned up a hiding place holding a rare set of Goya's bullfighting prints
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Observations · Humour
A few kilometres from Southwold Jack stands another similar "clockmaker" or bell-ringer, at Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
A few kilometres from Southwold Jack stands another similar "clockmaker" or bell-ringer, at Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh. Fine armour, one must say.