Padova: Eremitani Museums

I like to consider myself somewhat of a museum tiger. I can spend hours in succession exploring the collections of the largest museums in the world. But Padova’s Musei Civici or Eremitani Museums were just too much for me. They are anything but boring, but simply too large to visit…

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Padova: Il Santo

The church of Sant’Antonio di Padova, known as Il Santo to locals, is not just any church. It is in fact the second most important church of the Order of the Franciscans, after the Papal Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi. It is huge, but not as large as the…

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Padova: Eremitani

I can only describe the church of the Eremitani in Padova as a pleasant surprise. We still had about an hour to go before we could visit the famous Cappella degli Scrovegni, so we decided to pop in here and have a look. Our expectations were quite low, as the…

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Boekbespreking: Juliana. Vorstin in een mannenwereld

(gastbijdrage door Geerten Boogaard) Eind 2016 verscheen weer een wetenschappelijke vorstenbiografie. ‘Onder auspiciën van het NIOD’, maar zonder koninklijke zegen, leverde sociologe Jolande Withuis haar langverwachte biografie over Koningin Juliana af. Door de NIOD-achtergrond van de schrijfster zit de lezer op de eerste rij wat de oorlogsjaren betreft. Heel nauwkeurig…

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Venice: San Marco

A trip to Venice can never be complete without a visit to what is arguably the Serenissima’s most important and most famous religious edifice: the Basilica di San Marco. What is most surprising about the basilica is that, although it is almost a millennium old and has been dedicated to…

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