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Uncovering global art and culture, and the hidden gems that prove beauty still matters. Check the highlights tab for art that speaks to your soul.
You’ve been told Victorian social rules were stiff, outdated, and useless. But some of them could actually fix modern problems. Awkward dates. Clout-chasing. Loneliness. They had a rule for all of it. Should we bring back these 13 old-school customs? 🧵👇
How do you know that something with a mind did this?
Stunning! What made them build this? Church of Gesu in Rome
Stunning! What made them build this? Church of Gesu in Rome
History forgot them but these women didn’t wait to be remembered. In two stories, we uncover how sculptresses and muses carved each other into memory, and how Sarah Bernhardt took the chisel into her own hands to sculpt her legacy in stone. newsletter.thecultureexplorer.com/p/carved-out-o…
If you could have an unlimited supply of either Croissant or Cornetto for the rest of your life, which one would you go with?
Have you ever felt like you gave everything and still got hunted for it? That’s the story behind one of the most beautiful and brutal artworks of the Middle Ages: A unicorn, wounded and bleeding, hunted down… And yet still alive in the end. 🧵
Beneath the world’s most famous church lies this golden shrine guarding what many believe to be the bones of St. Peter.
What an amazing place and view…
Today in 1911, Hiram Bingham climbed into the clouds above Peru. What he found there changed archaeology forever. Come learn about the incredible site of the Incas, Machu Picchu 🧵👇🏼
A fisherman mourns his drowned child. And a woman who knew pain carved it into eternity. Après la Tempête (After the Storm) by Sarah Bernhardt