A very interesting auction find. Estimated at 300 euros, this painting went for 13,000, unexpectedly bringing the sale to a close on such a triumphant note. It recalls Van Dyck and Pieter Thijs. When I see sales like this, I am glad that I am not the only such dreamer.
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'
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
Philosopher Reading. Rembrandt Be like this philosopher. Or like Rembrandt, for that matter. As far as your strength allows
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