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Alexandr Radayev
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Heracles Slays the Lernaean Hydra
The German artist Guido Philipp Schmitt
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Ivan Nikitin painted a portrait of Peter the Great, now held in the Uffizi
Cosimo III de' Medici placed the Russian pensioner Ivan Nikitin in the academy of the painter Tommaso Redi. It was here that Nikitin painted a portrait of Peter I, who had sent him to study; the picture is in the collection of the Uffizi
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The New Jerusalem Museum Opens "Light Between Worlds", a Large-Scale Exhibition Project Combining Two Significant but Little-Studied Collections of Art of the 1920s and 1930s: the Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan…
The New Jerusalem Museum has opened "Light Between Worlds", a large-scale exhibition project that brings together two significant but little-studied collections of art of the 1920s and 1930s: that of the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and that of the
Art · Moscow
A Previously Unknown Painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, "The Boyar", Goes Under the Hammer in Moscow
Viktor Vasnetsov's painting "The Boyar" has been valued at 27 million roubles. For more than a hundred years the work was kept in the private collection of the heirs of the astronomer and collector Avenir Yakovkin. The auction will take place on 8 June. We shall
NB! · Architecture · Art · Heritage · Paris
American artist Brian Mark Taylor captured the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris in oils
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Woman in a jewelled crown and ermine robe within a carved frame
NB! · Archive · London · Monarchies
The Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953, 72 Years Ago
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Map of the Russian Empire, 1783
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An Interesting Assessment of the Structure of the Population of Southern Rus' in the 1830s
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Alexander the Great Watches His Beloved Roxana from a Special Bubble-Shaped Device for Underwater Travel
Alexander the Great watches his beloved Roxana from a special bubble-shaped device for underwater travel. The technology of the future in the service of the ancient world
Art · People
Nicolas de Staël, French abstract painter of Russian origin and son of a Russian general
Footballers, by the artist Nicolas de Staël, 1952. Nikolai Vladimirovich Stael von Holstein, a French abstract painter of Russian origin, the son of a general in the Russian army. He is better known under the name of Nicolas de Staël