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Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) was born into a St Petersburg family that created jewellery. Young Carl, trained in Russia and Germany, was in the right place and the right time. When he took over the family business, he created a firm that became closely linked to the romance, glamour and tragedy of the Romanovs. Romanov Tercentenary Egg,made…
16.7.2021
Pieter Brueghel the YoungerPeasant Wedding Dance, 1623Private collection, WikiStrasbourg’s Dancing Plague of 1518 was not the first. Previous dancing plagues had involved people who were in towns and cities close to the River Rhine, along with the merchants, pilgrims and soldiers who plied its waters.A] In the 1020s in Bernburg in Saxony, a group of peasants started…
The Story of Icehotel tells that Yngve Bergqvist did not want to spend the rest of his life working for a big mining company in Kiruna Lapland, Sweden's northern city. Bergqvist was an outdoorsman so he took up river-rafting. One day tourists asked him for a ride on the river and suddenly Bergqvist was in…
1.6.2021
Frick home in Pittsburghlater the Frick Art & Historical CentreHenry Clay Frick (1849-1919) was born to comfortable Mennonites, in West Overton, a rural community in SW Pennsylvania. He was the second of 6 children of an immigrant farmer who married into a flour merchant and whisky distiller family. Receiving only a brief formal education, Frick…