Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

In Avignon, about the year 1330. On the blue screen of a summer sky, an enormous mass of walls and towers is prominent, through a network of scaffoldings. It is the Palace of the Popes which rises, under the active … Read More

“Who could have stolen my money and my diamonds?” cried Cunégonde, weeping; “How shall we live? What will we do it? Where to find inquisitors and Jews who give me more?” “Alas!” said the old woman, “I suspect a Reverend … Read More

This Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had been seen in Israel since the captivity in Babylon. “What!” he said, “bitch of a Galilean, it is not enough the Inquisitor? Must this rascal also share you with me?” In … Read More

… and in the morning, on the lake, the sleeping gulls dream of the blue sea… Nicolae Sfetcu, 04.08.2017

City: Paris Address: 99, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris Coordinates: 48°51’40” north, 2°20’09” east Date of opening: August 10, 1793 Collections: Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre, Islamic Art, Sculptures, Objets d’art, Paintings, Graphic … Read More

A new NASA-funded study has revealed the origins of spicules – lengthy jets of plasma on the sun’s surface. Scientists have been observing these long strands of solar material since the end of the 19th century, but their origins have … Read More

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Denon – 1 st floor – Painting in Spain in the 17th century – Room 30 It is said that Philip III, King of Spain, seeing from the windows of his palace a laughing man, said gravely: “Or this man … Read More

“I was in my bed and slept deeply when Heaven pleased to send the Bulgarians to our beautiful castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh; they killed my father and my brother, and cut off my mother in pieces. A great Bulgarian, six feet … Read More

Entrepreneurship is a process that involves identifying and pursuing a business opportunity to capitalize it. Entrepreneurship began to be recognized during the French monarch Louis XIV who used to say that “bourgeois and craftsmen will become the artisans of wealth.” … Read More

A passenger civilian plane with Russian Deputy President Dimitri Rogozin was banned from entering the Romanian airspace. In accordance with a European Union decision, Rogozin is banned from entering the EU. He was to join, together with other Russian officials, … Read More

Rembrandt’s name shines so brightly in the sky of art that one may wonder if the immortal author of the Night Watch is not the greatest painter the world has ever known. What is most surprising, however, is that he … Read More