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Honras
The Warburg and Courtauld Institutes in London is the world’s most prestigious research institution and library of art history. Whoever gains here a research scholarship can regard him- or herself very...
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Honor y honras
El Warburg and Courtauld Institute de Londres es el centro de investigación interartística más prestigioso del mundo y contiene una de las bibliotecas más útiles e impresionantes. Quien recibe una beca...
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Sweet home
If the Liberation Front of Vietnam knew well how to take away the incentive for U.S. troops in the war, it was not a secret either for the Wehrmacht. The German field propagandists distributed to the...
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Avant la tempête
Il y a soixante-quinze ans, le 25 novembre 1937, L’Exposition internationale de Paris « Arts et techniques dans la Vie moderne» refermait ses portes. Pour la dernière fois avant la Seconde guerre...
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Une ville dans l'entre-deux
On peut encore se diriger dans Tbilissi avec ces plans anciens, le plan de Tiflis publié dans le Baedeker sur la Russie de 1914 ou celui du guide Moskvitch de 1913. Dans le détail tout a changé tant la...
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A city in-between
You can still find your way in Tbilisi with the old maps of the city published by the Baedeker on Russia in 1914 or of the guide of Moskvich from 1913. But as to the details, everything has changed, as...
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Immaculate Conception
Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December“On the day of your patron saint greets you and wishes you much happiness your brother who does not forget you: Federico”“Quails are singing in the morning...
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Памятник Освободителям / Memorial to the Liberators
Удивительно прочитать эту с детства знакомую русскую формулу в совершенно ином контексте, и кроме того четыре года ante festum:В ПАМЯТЬосвобождения г. Пскова от большевизмагерманскими войсками9 июля...
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The gift of the magi
It is not so much for the little sentimental story pointed to a moral lesson, but rather for the fine-toned watercolors painted thirty years ago by the Austrian graphic designer Lisbeth Zwerger, that...
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Forgotten Jewish village music
Rooster on the margin of the Kaufmann Haggadah, published by us in the internetOur faithful readers will surely remember that some years ago we made a meandering musical tour with Két Sheng, where we...
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Genuine pearl
If this small icon of St. George is familiar to you, it is not a coincidence. Similar ones have been produced by Romanian families in the Transylvanian Plain since the early 19th century, and the...
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The Rooster Has Crowed
For many years we had been visiting the Transylvanian Szék, when we first heard about the Jewish cemetery. After a ten-days Galician tour, having crossed the Carpathian Mountains in the night, and...
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A Tale of Meridians
Moving south by train from Prague via Salzburg, past Austrian Alps that shine like gods in the afternoon sun, then in darkness through solid rock under mountain borders, the fluorescent tube lighting...
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From an authoritative source
In recent days, thousands of students throughout Hungary protested against the government’s amateurish and hasty actions, which, two months before the university applications, want to remove the last...
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A sada neka istraže Vi!
Već ste mogli čitati u Río Wang da naposljetku drugog svjetskog rata kabinet strelastih križeva je poslao Madarske vojnike u daleka države. Sada – pomoću Vas – želimo da otkrijemo detaljezadnjeg...
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And now you investigate!
We have already read on Río Wang about the “exotic” places where, at the very end of WWII, the completely desperate and for its survival struggling Hungarian Arrow Cross puppet government was able to...
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Life is beautiful
Fame came late to Vladimir Vorobyov. The engineer of Novokuznetsk, employee of the Western Siberian Metallurgical Combinate, who died in 2011 at the age of 70, received in the mid-1970s his first and...
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La vida es hermosa
El reconocimiento le llegó muy tarde a Vladimir Vorobyov. El ingeniero de Novokuznetsk, empleado de la Combinada Metalúrgica de Siberia Occidental, fallecido en 2011 a la edad de 70 años, recibió en la...
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Картинки на конец света / Pictures for the end of the world
“There will be no end of the world whatsoever either on the 1st or the 13th of November 1899”Художник-баталист Иван Алексеевич Владимиров (1869-1947) известен циклами своих работ посвященным...
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