The French city of Nîmes, located in the south of the country in the Occitania region, from time to time presents various surprises to archaeologists. Recently, the remains of an ancient quarter, which was part of the Gallic city of Nemausus, were found...

Today we will look at part of the collection of Greek and Roman ancient objects that are included in the exhibition of the Museum of Art History in Vienna. The oldest artifacts date back to the third millennium BC. The permanent exhibition includes 2.5...

Philately is one of the most popular areas of collecting. Collecting stamps, you can not only get to know a particular country, its flora and fauna, history and geography, works of art, but also feel the peculiarities of this country, which are directly...

Violence is a dealer that sells such interesting numismatic artifacts as the featured yefimki. Many novice numismatists would like to purchase such a coin and are looking for a sample with which to compare the intended copy. For this purpose, a catalog...

Among the French gold coins, coins with a face value of 100 francs, minted from 900 gold with a pure gold content of 1 troy ounce, are in particular demand. Such coins began to be minted during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, then minted by the...

Icon of the Evangelist Luke was sold on Violity's website in early April. According to Orthodox and Catholic traditions, the depicted apostle was considered the first icon painter. Images of evangelists writing the Gospel became common in the...

Porcelain from the Gorodnitskaya factory, which is represented by another Violity lot, every day attracts more and more researchers and collectors. The interest of Gorodnitskaya plastic art is that it can be used to determine the level of porcelain...

In 1905 Earl Leaf was born, an American photographer and journalist who spent a long time in New York, shooting the metropolis. In the late 40s, he came to Hollywood, where he photographed celebrities and promising actors. In 1952, Earl Leaf visited...

On April 21, 1696, the Italian painter Francesco de Mura was born. He studied painting with famous Neapolitan masters, including a bright representative of the late Baroque era, Francesco Solimena. Later, de Mura continued his collaboration with Solimena...

Among the little-studied documents stored in the State archives of Greece, a check written in November 1823 by the English poet George Byron in the name of Giovanni Orlando was discovered. The amount of 4 thousand pounds indicated in the check was...