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Leonardo da Vinci, “La Scapigliata”, Head of a Young Woman, around 1508
Head of a young woman, known as La Scapigliata. Leonardo da Vinci. Circa 1508. The work embodies the chief principle of the master's poetics: the conveyance of the movements of the soul through outward features. This sketch demonstrates the summit of Leonardo's sfumato technique
A Kurdish warrior with a spear and a white cat in a photograph of 1870
I have been seized by an unbounded respect for this Kurdish warrior with his cat, in a photograph of 1870
Church of St Sergius of Radonezh in Tashkent, consecrated in 1897 and demolished in 1932
Until 1932 Tashkent had a church of Saint Sergius of Radonezh. It was built at the state's expense on the initiative of the Governor-General of Turkestan, Baron Alexandr Vrevsky, and the construction cost 90,000 roubles. The church stood on Pushkinskaya Street, at the junction with Assakinskaya.
Family portrait with reindeer, photograph from the 1910s
Portrait of a family with reindeer, 1910s