A gift to the museum from Lydia Delectorskaya, usually called the last muse of the genius, which implies that she was a close companion, assistant, secretary and, for almost two decades, model to Henri Matisse. Delectorskaya gave the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Hermitage hundreds of works by Matisse
In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
