Faith
God will give you not the people you want, but those you need: people who will help you, hurt you, leave you, love you, and make you the person you are meant to be
Saint Nectarios of Aegina
Alexandr Radayev
London · Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Paris
Jewels That Were Not Stolen
The diamond parure of Marie Antoinette, from the exhibition devoted to her at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is a great pity that I could not attend the exhibition, since I have no English visa, but thanks to a correspondent in England I shall prepare a detailed report all
Art · Observations
Giorgio de Chirico's 1922 painting as an image of an emptied world and symbolic order
Strange Travellers, or Strange Wanderers? Giorgio de Chirico, 1922. A man on a cloud as a symbol of the beings flying on the "comet" Atlas. Like no one else, de Chirico depicts mystery as the necessity of all being. You know, this painting recalls the setting of a
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
A new selection of Moscow exhibitions worth a visit:
📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Masterpieces of Early Photography. 1840–1870” at the Béton Centre for Visual Culture, until 30 November 📌 The exhibition “The Back of the Hand. Olga Sokolova, Evgeniya Goltseva” at the Museum of Decorative Art, until 30 November 📌 11 November: opening of the exhibition “From Dawn to Dusk:
Archive · Books · Mores
Physical signs of men and women in an old book, with a note on exceptions
The Marks of a Manly Body: a Large Head, a Red or Swarthy Face, Somewhat Sunken Eyes, Shoulders and Body Quite Broad, a Protruding Chest, a Wide Belly. The signs of the female form: a small head, a white face somewhat flushed or pale, black eyes, a steady gaze, a
NB! · Moscow · Museums
At the Pushkin Museum on Prechistenka
Art · Books
The Argument of Lavretsky and Mikhalevich in Turgenev’s “A Nest of Gentlefolk”, Illustrated by K. Kashcheev in 1951
"I was dislocated as a child; you, then, set yourself right!" From the quarrel between Lavretsky and Mikhalevich in Turgenev's "A Nest of the Gentry" Illustration: K. Kashcheev, 1951
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Pavel Kovalevsky, The Flogging, 1880
Archive · Art · Museums
Pliny the Elder on the fifth-century BC sculptors’ contest for the wounded Amazon
The Wounded Amazon, Franz von Stuck, 1905. A description of the image of the wounded Amazon is found in Pliny the Elder, who tells of a competition for the finest sculpture on the subject, in which the celebrated sculptors of the 5th century BC Polykleitos, Phidias, Kresilas and Phradmon took
Archaeology · The East · Museums
Ancient Egyptian chair from a tomb in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and its construction
A child's chair more than 3,200 years old from the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings at West Thebes. Six chairs in all were found in the tomb. This one is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Its state of preservation is fairly
NB! · Faith · Observations · Society
How heartening it is to see American flags against a backdrop of Orthodox crosses and icons ❤️
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