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François Boucher, Frightened Bather, 1756, on display in a museum
Coming Up · Aristocracy · Art · Museums
The exhibition “The French Taste of the Princes Yusupov” at the New Jerusalem Museum offers a rare opportunity to trace the history of French painting as assembled by a single collector, Prince Nikolai Borisovich…
The exhibition “The French Taste of the Princes Yusupov” at the New Jerusalem Museum offers a rare opportunity to trace the history of French painting as assembled by a single collector, Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov (1750-1831), Director of the Armoury Chamber. The Yusupov collection is famous the world over,
Aristocracy · Art · Books · Museums · People
Two Vigée Le Brun portraits from the Yusupov collection shown at an exhibition in New Jerusalem
In the late 1790s the celebrated Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun worked in Russia, painting august portraits and persons of the very highest rank, such as the last King of Poland; she devoted a separate part of her memoirs to the Russian period, and it has been published in Russian. The
NB! · Archive · Cinema · Observations · Humour
Forgive me if I am mistaken, but... is that the Green Knight from David Lowery's 2021 fantasy, doodled in the margins of the Glastonbury Cartulary?
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It looks as though Stanley Kubrick, on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1966, is serving the ball straight to Dmitri Shostakovich, who is playing catch with his son Maxim on a lawn in the 1940s
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Suffragettes Learn Jiu-Jitsu Techniques to Resist Police Violence
25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu techniques in order to resist police violence
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Queen Silvia of Sweden and Queen Letizia of Spain: quite simply my last two nerve cells this week
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I look at this 1965 Balenciaga ensemble and try to work out the moment at which humanity took a wrong turning
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Ladies in white dresses and hats at the races, photograph of 1908
Ladies at the races. Photograph of 1908 🤍
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Ophelia?
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Katya Shcheglova's Mirrored Heart 2 exhibition opens at the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky
Yesterday a very beautiful exhibition by the artist Katya Shcheglova, also known in the role of an actress with a rather sizeable filmography, opened at the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane. As a production designer, Katya was nominated for the Golden Mask, and she has now prepared a