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Alexandr Radayev
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Boethius beholds in a magic mirror how Lady Philosophy consoles and heals him, sick and feeble as he is, which I wish for you too
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Giorgione's Judith and Vladimir Petrovich Kozin's Judith
Photograph from the series "Domestic History of ISKVA. Photo Performance", 1999 In a kitchen, beside the stove, a man lies on his back; above him stands a woman, her left foot planted on the man's head. In her left hand is a white stick. Museum "
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Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once
Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once. The picture has been ascribed to Domenico Mancini and to Domenico
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Madonna and Child in a Landscape and Judith in Room 217 of the Great Hermitage
Works by Giorgione that can be seen in the Hermitage:. 📌 Madonna and Child in a Landscape, circa 1503. Acquired in 1817 from the Creighton collection in Saint Petersburg. On display in Room 217 of the Large Hermitage. One of the painter's early works 📌 Judith, 1504. Acquired in 1772
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You ask why I don't care for Le Corbusier?
You ask why I don't care for Le Corbusier? Because he led us from the first to the second
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Painted portrait of a young man with long hair wearing armor
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Vasari's biography of Giorgione, his date of death and the disputed self-portraits
Labouring for the glory of himself and his fatherland, and forever moving in society to divert his many friends with music, he fell in love with a certain lady, and the two of them took very great delight in their love. But it so happened that in 1511 she caught
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“The Tempest” by Giorgione, 1507-1508, regarded as the first landscape in the history of painting
A Small Landscape on Canvas with a Storm, a Gypsy Woman and a Soldier. Or, to be more precise, Giorgione's "The Tempest", 1507-1508. In essence, what we have before us is the first landscape in the history of painting. Yes, yes, exactly so. Giorgione'
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The cuirass of an unfortunate French cavalryman struck by a cannonball at the Battle of Waterloo
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If your children smoke and neither pleading nor punishment will cure them of it
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Growing number of conversions to Orthodoxy among Americans and the English
Not only America but England too is turning its gaze to Orthodoxy, which means the programme to destroy the Christian religion in the Anglo-Saxon world has misfired. Remember the episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer and Bart become Catholics, and Marge frets that they will make