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The Farewell of the French Cuirassiers Leaving Paris in 1914
The end of the age of chivalry
Alexandr Radayev
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Jewish Museum opens first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years
The Jewish Museum, housed in the Constructivist building of the Bakhmetevsky Garage, has opened the first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years, "Lyuba, Lyubochka. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova. 1889–1924". The exhibition presents more than 280 works, many of them shown for the first time. It offers
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Very mediocre rulers are reborn as gel polish, so that something good may at last be said of them
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There is no historical fatality; there is only a historical Nemesis, which punishes those who dithered when it was still possible to act
The Austrian socio-political theorist Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Illustration: Sergey Yukhimov
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Still life “Oranges in Wrapping” by William Joseph McCloskey
Wrapped Oranges. William Joseph McCloskey
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The Church as a ship of saints in the Piccolomini Breviary illustration, Lombardy, circa 1475
An allegory of the Church as a ship, which provokes rejection and hostility from the people on the shore. The ship is filled with saints. The mast is the cross of Jesus Christ, crowned with the nest of a pelican feeding its young with its own blood. On the keel
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“Reigning Queens” in the Pop Art Style
“Reigning Queens” in the pop art style. In the Netherlands, at Het Loo Palace, a series of portraits of women on the throne, created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, has been put on show. At that time four queens headed monarchies: Elizabeth, the United Kingdom; Beatrix, the Netherlands;
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Former Queen of the Netherlands, Princess Beatrix (reigned from 1980; abdicated in 2013 in favour of her son, Willem-Alexander), beside her own portraits by Andy Warhol
Photograph from the exhibition "Andy Warhol's Queens", which includes a series of portraits of reigning queens
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Former King Albert II of Belgium and Queen Paola, married since 1959
The now non-reigning King of the Belgians, Albert II, aged 90, and his wife Queen Paola, aged 87. Married since 1959. Delightful 💞
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The Evangelist Luke with his symbol, the Eagle, and the motto More volans aquile verbo petit astra Iohannes, in a tenth-century book
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Exhibition of Vera Yermolayeva's works at Galeev Gallery until 13 November
The final week of the remarkable exhibition "Faith in Yermolayeva" is under way at Galeev Gallery. It is not merely a weighty event from the curatorial point of view, but also an important account of Vera Yermolayeva (1893-1937), whose name, though little known, has become one of