Category: Culture

Culture

Painting  of Degas renamed because of the war in Ukraine

The National Gallery in London has renamed the painting of the famous French Impressionist Edgar Degas from "Russian Dancers" to "Ukrainian Dancers", reports The Guardian. The work is a pastel…

13 April 2022 · 1 min read

Archeology

The Vikings were 1,000 years ahead of Columbus

Wood from an ancient settlement on the Canadian island of Newfoundland testifies that long before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the Vikings were the first to reach the New…

11 April 2022 · 3 min read

Christianity

The Sacred Images and the struggle against it

The question of icon-worship seems to be purely practical, given that icon-painting is a church-applied art. But in the Orthodox Church he received an extremely thorough, truly theological staging. What…

10 April 2022 · 10 min read