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Another interesting fragment from Marina Loshak's recent interview. — Is the Russian art market content with Vasnetsov and Serov? — It is very bad when a culture, however rich and varied it may be, stews in its own juice. It is one single "broth", and every ingredient in
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The Socialite's Children. Karl Bryullov
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The Ascent. Perhaps this is the chief thought that comes to mind on viewing the grand retrospective of Karl Bryullov at the Russian Museum. An ascent at once of you, the viewer, and of Russian art itself, up to the level of Bryullov, who became our first great painter to
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The Apparition of "Christ in the Tomb" at the Russian Museum, at the "Great Karl" Exhibition. I had not expected to see this painting at the grand jubilee exhibition of Karl Bryullov. The previously unknown canvas by Bryullov, which has now featured in legal proceedings for
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A mistake is a gift from God. Do not try to correct it, then. On the contrary, try to understand it, to be imbued with its meaning, to grow used to it. And liberation will come. Salvador Dalí
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Contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami now makes footwear. Well, evidently the world has been feeling a certain shortage of rubber goods. Owners of Crocs, accordingly, should hasten to change their shoes.
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Wooden model of Bernini's equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Galleria Borghese. In the end the sculpture did not please the king, and he sent it off to the back of the park
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Peter the Great's lathe in Peter's Winter Palace. In all, the Hermitage has preserved 12 lathes from the workshop of Peter the Great; he used all of them, depending on the task and the material that needed working, wood or bone.
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Marina Loshak said many interesting things in a recent interview. But as someone who has been inseparably bound up with museums for almost ten years, and who has been collecting art for about as long, and a rather original, non-standard collection at that, I found the following passage especially
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Saint Martin and the Beggar. El Greco, 1597-1599. The episode of the cloak and the beggar is the best known in the life of Saint Martin. The Serbian bishop Nikolai Velimirovich gives the following version: Martin was born to pagan parents in the Pannonian town of Sabaria in the