Oval cameo of two seated women and cupids beside a cage under a tree
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National Museum of Korea director criticised over misattributed work from his own collection
Yu Hong-jun, Director of the National Museum of Korea, is being criticised for lending the museum a work from his own collection that turned out to have been misattributed. At the exhibition "Korean Table: Food, Nature and Life", which opened on 1 July, the museum displayed a
The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre Prepare “Rembrandt and the Ancients” for New York in 2027 and Paris in 2028
The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre are jointly preparing the exhibition "Rembrandt and the Ancients". It will open in New York in November 2027 and travel to Paris in 2028. For the first time in more than twenty years, the Metropolitan will show so full a retrospective of
Patriarch Kirill blesses recognition of remains from Oryol cemetery as relics of Athanasius of Oryol
Patriarch Kirill has blessed the recognition of the remains discovered at the Krestitelskoye Cemetery in Oryol as the holy relics of Athanasius of Oryol. The Church canonised Athanasius on 14 May 2026 as a holy fool and confessor. Athanasius was born in 1887 in the village of Danichevo in the
The Ramayana in Hollywood Cinema, from “A Little Princess” to Nitesh Tiwari’s Film
I have read a piece on how Hollywood cinema makes use of the Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic in Sanskrit which tradition ascribes to the poet Valmiki. The epic tells of the exile of Prince Rama, the abduction of his wife Sita by the demon Ravana, and her rescue. In