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Alexandr Radayev
Architecture · Art
The Chapel of Eleonora of Toledo, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Frescoes by Agnolo Bronzino
Archive · Books
Anatoly Mariengof's poem about 1917 and the break with the past
Each day of ours is a new chapter of the Bible. Each page will be Great to thousands of generations. We are those of whom they will say: "The lucky ones, they lived in 1917." And you are still wailing: we are lost! Still squandering your whimpers! Foolish
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Yellow electric scooters before a colonnaded gate, hatched cityscape painting
Art · Observations · Society Pages
Second season of the Catalog contemporary art fair and a photo with Francisco Infante
Went to the Catalog contemporary art fair. Looked at works by some splendid artists. Had my photograph taken with Francisco Infante. I liked the second season of the fair as much as the first: a most agreeable event, held at a good professional level.
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World Religions in Figures
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
The Beautiful Borovitskaya Tower Shows Off Its Freshly Restored Crown
The beautiful Borovitskaya Tower has shown off its freshly restored crown. The progress of the restoration work is plain to see. It is, after all, hard to argue that the Moscow Kremlin is one of the most beautiful fortresses in the world. Every time I drive past, I look at
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Recognise Your Kitchen?
Recognise your kitchen? The sprouted onion is touching: it reminded me at once of Grandmother's green onion shoots, which she kept going even in winter. Hardly anyone does that now, I suppose. And we had, and still have, similar plates with a blue rim, Japanese, from the 1950s,
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
I had never seen these charming studies of nude models by Matisse at the Pushkin Museum
A gift to the museum from Lydia Delectorskaya, usually called the last muse of the genius, which implies that she was a close companion, assistant, secretary and, for almost two decades, model to Henri Matisse. Delectorskaya gave the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Hermitage hundreds of works
Architecture · Faith · Monarchies · Rome
The Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome and the rain episode as described by Cassius Dio
The Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. Erected in 193 in honour of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius's victory in the Marcomannic War. The marble column itself stands 29.6 m tall, and its pedestal 10 m; the original height of the monument was almost 42 metres, and for
Art · Moscow · Museums
Fernando Botero sculpture of 1976 in the Pushkin Museum collection
Woman with a Hand Mirror. Fernando Botero, 1976 Pushkin Museum collection