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At the Engineering Building of the Tretyakov Gallery: an exhibition of the remarkable Russian artist Alexander Ponomarev, "I Am Mad Only at North-North-West", gathering models of his world-famous works from Venice and Paris, Egypt and Japan, Moscow and…
The exhibition is intimate, yet Ponomarev does not feel cramped in this modest space: his spirit lives in the open expanse of the world's elements and takes form in works whose driving forces are the surface of the sea and the canopy of the sky, the might of
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Versailles, an Evening in the Marble Court
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Granddaughter of merchant Grigory Yeliseyev in the USSR gave an inheritance of millions of francs to the state
The merchant Grigory Grigoryevich Yeliseyev, one of the richest men in the country and grandson of the founder of a famous trading dynasty, managed to leave Russia in 1920; by then he had property and accounts abroad and had no difficulty arranging his life. But not all of his children
Books · Society · Paris
Edition printed in Paris by F. Buisson in 1797, Year V of the Republic
The new reckoning from the founding of the First French Republic in September 1792, illustrated from the book trade:. printed in Paris in Year V of the Republic, or in the year 1797 from the Nativity of Christ.
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Versailles in the Snow
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Lady Mendl and the Duchess of Windsor founded a wartime charity to aid the French army
American actress, designer and philanthropist Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950), by marriage Lady Mendl, in a velvet cape created specially for her in 1938 by Elsa Schiaparelli. The cape is dedicated to the Fountain of Apollo in the park of Versailles and is called, accordingly, Apollo of Versailles. The garment
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
New look for the rooster as the decor is recreated after the original was lost in a fire
It is disconcerting that the new symbol of Notre-Dame de Paris differs so greatly from the original figure made by the French sculptor Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, author of the statues of the twelve apostles at the foot of the spire. And yet one may see a certain logic in
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
A cockerel has been restored to the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, bearing sacred relics: one of the seventy thorns of the Crown of Thorns, a particle of the relics of Saint Genevieve and a particle of the relics of Saint Denis of Paris
The cathedral's new emblem also has two openings, in which reliquary capsules are placed. The figure has been blessed by the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Laurent Ulrich
Architecture · Art · Paris
The Enceladus Fountain by Gaspard Marsy in the Gardens of Versailles and the Myth of the Giant
The Fountain of the Giant Enceladus in the Gardens of Versailles. Sculptor Gaspard Marsy, 1675/77. Enceladus, a mythical giant born of Gaia and Tartarus, was slain by Athena, who hurled after him an enormous rock that became the island of Sicily, while the breath of Enceladus became the fire
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A cross blessed by Benedictine monks is placed on the restored spire of Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame de Paris is once more beneath the sign of the Cross. Today a cross, blessed by Benedictine monks, was set atop the restored spire. Formerly the tip of the spire bore a metal casket in the form of a cockerel, which held three important relics of Notre-Dame:
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