Faith · Art
The Resurrection: The Angels Rolling the Stone Away from the Sepulchre
William Blake, circa 1805
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Art · Observations · Nature
Pink roses in a glass vase in a painting by Jean François van Dael
In my opinion, Jan Frans van Dael has captured the loveliest variety of rose in the world. I do not know what it is called, but these flowers are magnificent
Coming Up · Art · Paris
A little-known Picasso to go under the hammer in Paris
The work in question is a painting entitled "Bust of a Woman in a Flowered Hat", which depicts Dora Maar, the artist's muse and lover. Until now this portrait was known to specialists and admirers of the Spanish painter's work only from black-and-
Faith · Science · Society · People · Rome
The head of the Roman Catholic Church must not have a virtual double, Pope Leo XIV declared, commenting on the abandonment of the idea of creating an AI pope-consultant
In May, Leo XIV named artificial intelligence as one of the most important problems facing humanity. He observed that AI may create obstacles to “human dignity, justice and labour”
Architecture · Heritage · People · Pop Culture
Jeremy Irons restored the 15th-century Kilcoe Castle in County Cork
Jeremy Irons lives in a restored 15th-century Irish castle. In 1998 the actor bought the ruined Kilcoe Castle in County Cork; its restoration took six years and about 2 million dollars. Irons's castle was built in 1458, but from 1603 onwards it lay in a state of
Art · Museums · Observations · People
The bronze mask of Igor Shelkovsky, made by the sculptor Boris Orlov, seems to me a direct allusion to the Mycenaean golden mask of Agamemnon
Shelkovsky's mask is on show in the Artists' Village on Maslovka. The mask of Agamemnon is in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
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Vasily Chuikov, At the Piano, 1970s: painting on a museum wall
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Museum of the Artists' Town on Verkhnyaya Maslovka opens in Moscow
I did not know that Moscow had a little neighbourhood where, from the 1930s onwards, outstanding Soviet artists lived and worked side by side. Igor Grabar, Boris Ioganson, Geliy Korzhev, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Tyshler, Semyon Chuikov: the names of these luminaries are familiar to everyone, but one need only imagine
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Judith with a sword and the head of Holofernes, Renaissance painting
Art · Mores
Gloves for Those Whose Diamonds Are Itching
Late medieval custom held that rings were not to be worn over gloves; instead, one was advised to wear special perforated gloves, through which the jewellery could be seen. Gloves of just this perforated kind appear, in particular, in the paintings of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Art · Observations · Society · Reportage · Ethnography
We have already said a great deal about Blazar, but I cannot help returning once more to the design section that so appealed to me, and dwelling on one of its brightest stands: the stand of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, designed by the architect Misha Maslo
We have already said a great deal about Blazar, but I cannot help returning once more to the design section that so appealed to me, and dwelling on one of its brightest stands: the stand of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, designed by the architect Misha Maslov, which the fair named
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Observations · People · Humour
Theory linking Kate Middleton to the Rothschilds through her mother
There is a very amusing theory that Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, is a Rothschild on her mother's side. Her mother, née Goldsmith, is supposed to have come from the Goldsmith-Rothschild family. The theory is often refuted, but then such a fact would hardly be something to