Largest ancient statue in the Vatican under restoration
The Vatican’s largest ancient statue is undergoing restoration, the AP reported. The 4-meter-tall gilded Hercules is believed to have stood in Pompeii’s…
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A play about Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria to be performed at the Edinburgh International Festival
The play will also be presented at the Embassy of Bulgaria in London at the end of July and the beginning of…
A new digital platform could become social network for art
YourArt has ambitions to exhibit and sell works of amateur and professional artists A new digital platform dedicated to art was launched…
After 200 years: 2 new Rembrandt paintings discovered
They were in a private collection Two previously unknown portraits by Rembrandt were discovered after 200 years in the private collection of…
2 million dollar fine for pranking the Chinese army
A Chinese comedy troupe has been fined 14.7 million yuan ($2.1 million) for a joke about the military that used President Xi…
Alicia Simpson, Stephanos Efthymiadis (ed), Niketas Choniates: A Historian and a Writer. La Pomme d’or S.A., Geneva 2011.
Contents: Introduction, Alicia Simpson, Niketas Choniates: the Historian and Stephanos Efthymiadis, Niketas Choniates: the Writer Paul Magdalino: Prophecy and Divination in the…
Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi (ed). The Occult Sciences in Byzantium. La Pomme d’or S.A., Geneva 2006.
Contents: Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi: Introduction. Maria Mavroudi: Occult Sciences and Society in Byzantium: Considerations for Future Research. Katerina Ierodiakonou: The Byzantine…
Tonia Kiousopoulou, Emperor or Manager: Power and Political Ideology in Byzantium before 1453. La Pomme d’or, Geneva 2011.
https://www.pommedor.ch/emperor.html Byzantium in the 15th century is too easily dismissed as the anachronistic tail end of an ancient ecumenical empire, whose only…
Emma Maayan Fanar, Revelation through the Alphabet. Aniconism and Illustrated Initial Letters in Byzantine Artistic Imagination. La Pomme d’or, Geneva 2011.
https://www.pommedor.ch/revelation.html The book explores aniconic tendencies in the post-iconoclastic lectionaries, with special emphasis on illuminated initial letters, unravelling their sources and models…
The Danish government waived a law requiring all sermons to be translated into Danish
The Danish government has rejected a controversial draft law that had been under discussion for the past three years and would have…