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Audrey Hepburn at the party held on her return to London after filming «Roman Holiday» in 1953. At the outset the 24-year-old Hepburn was not even considered for the part of Princess Anne in William Wyler's romantic comedy; the leading contenders were Elizabeth Taylor and Jean
Art · Books · Museums · Paris
The painter was ardent, affable, pure, clever. He knew that the rosy, timid child Was long since dry and yellow, like a squeezed lemon; That in the pulse of those veins are the dreams of many buried; That it is not Brabant lace that is beyond price, But that, surely,
Coming Up · Faith · Art · London
Christie's in London to offer this remarkable Saint Sebastian by the great El Greco, thought to date from 1600, from a private collection. It is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the known portraits of Saint Sebastian created by El Greco. The saint is shown against an overcast, clouded
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Pyotr Vyazemsky, 1853, Dresden
Art · Observations
The seventeenth-century Dutch watercolourist Gesina ter Borch and an unknown sixteenth-century Italian artist.
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Under this article, by 1 July 2025 all newly identified monuments must be entered in the register of regional objects of cultural heritage (OCH), which confers protected status. Those that fail to make it into the register will be struck from the list of identified monuments. There are currently 1,
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin". It turns out that what is meant
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A delightful preparatory drawing on marble: Theseus and the Centaur. Found at Herculaneum, AD 20-30. On display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples
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