Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
Tatyana Grigoryevna Nazarenko, Museum of the Revolution, 1989
The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
Alexandr Radayev
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At last, I have made it to Yury Zlotnikov's exhibition "Signal Systems" at the New Tretyakov Gallery
At last, I have made it to Yury Zlotnikov's exhibition "Signal Systems" at the New Tretyakov Gallery. It is most gratifying that Zlotnikov's personal notes are on show, explaining his method and offering a glimpse of his reflections on what a point is, for
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Alexander Konstantinov's Objects at GES-2
Art · People
Stalin Reads a Newspaper
Georgy Rublev, 1935
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Empress Masako of Japan has visited the Moscow kindergarten she attended as a child, having lived in the city from the age of two because her father, Hisashi Owada, was a diplomat posted to the Soviet Union
Archaeology · Architecture · Geography · Rome
The Karnak obelisk on Rome's Lateran Hill, brought to the city in 357
There are now about thirty genuine ancient Egyptian obelisks standing in the world; Egypt has eight, as many as Rome. The tallest stands on the Lateran Hill before the Basilica of St John the Baptist. It is an obelisk from the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, raised in the
Art · Mores · People
The Execution of Beatrice Cenci and the Portrait Now Attributed to Ginevra Cantofoli
Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, a Roman beauty of the very end of the sixteenth century, executed on a charge of murdering her own father. The tragedy in one of the wealthiest families of Italy shocked contemporaries: a daughter, a wife and a son conspire to kill the head of a
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A most interesting specimen of Roman plumbing: those very ceramic pipes, walled into what appears to be a lime mortar
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Details
Details. A tapestry in the Lateran Palace, residence of the Vicar General of Rome
Archive · Faith · People · Rome
The Execution of Giordano Bruno at Campo de' Fiori in 1600 in Contemporary Accounts
Before being burned, Giordano Bruno said to his judges: “You pronounce this sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it”. These words were recorded by Count Ventimiglia, a pupil of Bruno who was present at the burning. Count Ventimiglia reports that before his death Bruno urged him to
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Easter weekend, 1974
Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
Mark Rothko retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris: impressions of the show
The Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris has closed its major retrospective of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), the most significant ever devoted to the artist. Since October it has unfailingly drawn formidable queues. They say that the scenography of the exhibition follows the artist's own instructions, but can one