Francis Bacon, one of many interpretations of Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
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Student protest at the Porte des Lions entrance of the Louvre over the education crisis
They did not know how to avoid a robbery, but they used tear gas against us - reads one of the demonstrators' placards at the entrance to the Louvre. Today the student protests in Paris reached the Louvre, and I decided to go to the demonstration at the museum'
Villa Marmottan Library in Boulogne-Billancourt Holds a Collection on the Napoleonic Era
The Villa Marmottan library is a hidden sight of Paris, situated in the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. This former mansion of the historian Paul Marmottan has today been turned into a unique public library under the aegis of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Unlike the popular Musée Marmottan Monet, this
Rembrandt, the painting “Philosopher Reading”: an old man with a book in a vaulted hall
Philosopher Reading. Rembrandt Be like this philosopher. Or like Rembrandt, for that matter. As far as your strength allows
Hieromonk Sofontiy of the Kerzhenets, an Old Believer father: his grave, his following and his portrayal by Melnikov-Pechersky
In the Trans-Volga forests on the river Kerzhenets, not far from Semyonov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, stands a cross over the grave of Hieromonk Sophonty, one of the most revered fathers of the Old Believers. Tradition names Sophonty as one of seven Solovetsky monks who fled the monastery