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A painted sculpture of a seated Madonna holding the Christ Child, in a glass case with a gilt-framed painting behind.

NB! · Faith · Art · Observations · Humour

Terracotta Madonna in sandals by the French sculptor Gervais Delabarre

Terracotta Madonna in sandals, the work of the French sculptor of the 16th-17th century Gervais Delabarre. The toes are admittedly odd; I recommend replacing the sandals with loafers or espadrilles

NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Yasumasa Morimura makes photographic self-portraits, reflecting on the history of art and transforming himself into Da Vinci, Van Eyck, Frida Kahlo and Vermeer

Yasumasa Morimura makes photographic self-portraits, reflecting on the history of art and transforming himself into Da Vinci, Van Eyck, Frida Kahlo and Vermeer. I have been to his exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, and tomorrow I shall go again

Three vintage glasses in purple, blue and amber glass stand on a white countertop beside a sink.

NB! · Art · Observations

The author's new favourite items, Austrian glasses of the early 20th century

I have new favourites. Austrian liqueur glasses of the early twentieth century

Three wooden beehives stand on the roof of Notre-Dame, with three jars of honey of different sizes on the paving in front of them.

NB! · Faith · Observations · Paris · Nature

Beehives have stood on the roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris since 2013

Since 2013, bees have been kept on the roof of Notre-Dame. It is an initiative of city activists, endorsed by the cathedral because it shows the beauty of the created world. And I am still afraid to go to church with my own candles

NB! · Archive · Observations · Humour

Sitting in my cell, awaiting congratulations on Archives Day

Stone fragment with traces of soil lying on white cloth

NB! · Archaeology · The East · Humour

A small find beside a large pharaonic block unearthed nearby

Still, a mite like this is hardly likely to cause a sensation when a whole pharaonic slab is being hauled out of the ground next door. What is one to do?

Workers and onlookers stand in mud around an excavator bucket holding a silt-covered stone find.

NB! · Archaeology · The East · Observations · People

An 80-centimetre bust of Seti II with a cartouche found near the Ramesses colossus

An 80-centimetre bust of Seti II has been found close to the Ramesses. A rather interesting character, and the sculpture is labelled with his cartouche, unlike the giant, within an 8-metre radius of whom there is not a single inscription

NB! · Archaeology · Heritage · Science

For several years now, scholars from the University of Leipzig have been working at this site, and only half a year ago they were telling of a newly discovered fresco in which Ramesses prays to some gods or other, and here we have an entire Colossus!

NB! · Archaeology · Observations · Humour

An eight-metre statue has only just been dug out of a waterlogged layer, so I suspect it has not yet dried out from the groundwater, and you already know about it

A huge stone head of a statue lies on the ground, with men and women standing around it on a dug-up site.

NB! · Archaeology · The East

Giant statue found in Heliopolis is attributed to Ramesses II by its location

A giant statue of Ramesses II was found in Heliopolis today. That is to say, the sculpture itself bears no indication of whom it depicts, but it was found opposite the entrance to the tomb of Ramesses, from which it was concluded whose it is

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