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Alexandr Radayev
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At the Blazar fair, the independent artists section and regional stands have grown
A quick look round Blazar: this year there is a large section of independent artists, with a great many young people and new names. The number of regional stands has noticeably grown, so this is no longer a purely Moscow fair. Among the Moscow galleries I would single out the
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Penny-pinching, 2024 edition: the Blazar contemporary art fair now charges for carrier bags, though we must be grateful that Sellotape and bubble wrap are still provided free of charge
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The Painter and the Connoisseur
The Painter and the Connoisseur. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566 Albertina Gallery, Vienna
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Léon Becker's 1884 painting and the discovery of 30 iguanodon skeletons at Bernissart
How touching that a man was found, namely the nineteenth-century Belgian painter Léon Becker, who wished to record "The Mounting of the First Iguanodon from Bernissart in the Chapel of Saint George in Brussels", for that is what the picture is called. 1884. At that time, 30
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Tolstoy and Chekhov in the Crimea in 1901
Tolstoy and Chekhov in the Crimea in 1901. Lev Nikolayevich is 73, Anton Pavlovich 41.
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Napoleon and his general in a Russian troika on a 20th-century Thuringian figurine group
Napoleon's Flight from Russia. It is curious that, according to the artist's conception, Napoleon and his general are speeding along in a Russian troika driven by a Russian coachman. Thuringia, 20th century
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Florist Petra Radnai and photographer Orsolya Karancs take inspiration from Fra Angelico and Michelangelo
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Frédéric Bazille's Portrait of Renoir as a Reminder That All Our Beloved Old Men Were Once Young, and Perhaps Sat in an Armchair With Their Feet Up
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A Year with the Sun and Moon in Its Hands, and Light and Darkness Beneath Them
Around the symbolic image of the year are the signs of the zodiac, natural phenomena, details of the weather and the four winds. From the illustrated book Scivias by Hildegard of Bingen, completed in 1151-1152 and devoted to her religious visions
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Man in a dark jacket standing before a mirrored wardrobe in a room
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New Literary Observer has published "Doctor Zhivago as a Historical Novel", by the philologist Konstantin Polivanov, a study of Boris Pasternak's principal novel, of the prototypes of its heroes, of Pasternak's spiritual and political evolution, and of ho
New Literary Observer (Novoye literaturnoye obozreniye) has published "Doctor Zhivago as a Historical Novel" by the philologist Konstantin Polivanov. The book deals with Boris Pasternak's principal novel, the prototypes of the heroes of his famous work, Pasternak's spiritual and political evolution, and the way