Subscriber clarifies that Lavinia in the portrait plays a virginal, not a spinet

I love you, dear subscribers! And it is pleasant to know that there are such specialists among you. On the post about Lavinia

And what a name, the virginal! Pure poetry!

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The ballet “The Flames of Paris” from its 1932 Leningrad premiere to the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky stagings

The ballet "The Flames of Paris" was staged in Leningrad for the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution. The premiere took place on 7 November 1932 at the Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet, as the Mariinsky Theatre was then called. The music was written by Boris Asafyev,

Odilon Redon's Head of the Virgin after Da Vinci on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

The Da Vinci theme is unexpectedly continued by one of the most uncanny of French Symbolists, Odilon Redon, with a head of the Virgin inspired precisely by Da Vinci's unfinished painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (3 photos). I photographed the Redon at the opening of

Drawing in brown tones of a young woman's bowed head, with downcast eyes and loose, wavy hair.

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

Old studio photograph of a bearded man in a turban and striped robe, with a dagger and a long spear, a white cat sitting at his feet.

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

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The ballet “The Flames of Paris” from its 1932 Leningrad premiere to the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky stagings

Odilon Redon's Head of the Virgin after Da Vinci on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

Leonardo da Vinci, “La Scapigliata”, Head of a Young Woman, around 1508

A Kurdish warrior with a spear and a white cat in a photograph of 1870