Mummies, sarcophagus & coffins at Cairo’s Egyptian museum! Pyramids of Giza laser light show,...
Mummies, sarcophagus & coffins at Cairo’s Egyptian museum! Pyramids of Giza laser light show, Nile dinner cruise.
Posted by La Carmina on January 28, 2020
Call me Queen of the Damned. If you...
“Gothic” Architects Brought Islamic World To Europe
Source: Eurasia News August 25, 2020
By Chris Doyle*
Too many people conceive the world in terms of civilizational silos. The West, whatever that means, is for many the apogee of...
Cologne Cathredal
"In 1857, a famous poet-Düsseldorfer, Heinrich Heine, was once asked why gothic cathedrals don’t get built anymore. His answer was: 'In those days men had convictions, whereas we moderns...
Who was Edvard Munch?
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The following article was originally published on British Museum
In our upcoming spring exhibition, we lift the veil on one of the most remarkable artists and printmakers of a generation...
Au temps des cathédrales : l’époque gothique | ARTE
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Cologne Cathedral
Source: Wilkommen in Germany
Der Kölner Dom is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Köln (Cologne), Nordrhein-Westfalen in Northwestern Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop, the administration of the Archdiocese,...
Macabre Mania From Charles Allan Gilbert to Andy Warhol
Source: New Your Almanack
March 8, 2022 by Jaap Harskamp 2 Comments
The ossuary under the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini at Via Veneto in Rome houses the skulls and bones...
Another Grey World: Brutalism in Berlin
Source: Slow Travel Berlin
Jesse Simon visits some of Berlin’s notable Brutalist–and Brutal-ish–buildings…
In the eighties and nineties, few things were more reviled than raw, unfinished concrete. Architects who had no...