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The Historical Museum has launched an online project dedicated to Count Alexei Uvarov, scholar, archaeologist, founder of the Moscow Archaeological Society, collector and patron of the arts. Uvarov was the author of the idea of creating the Historical Museum and devoted all his strength and knowledge to the successful realisation
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Remember the Australian comedian who calls himself the secret son of King Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles? He has turned up again, and all the more opportunely, since the King and Queen's visit to Australia has come at just the right moment. As fresh proof of his royal
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Camille Claudel's sculpture "The Mature Age" of 1899. The second photograph shows the original version of this work, dating from 1894. The artist's brother, Paul Claudel, described the piece thus: "My sister Camille, imploring, humiliated, on her knees, this superb, this proud woman,
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But in fact this helmet, which I wrote about briefly in my book, is the sole surviving piece of the armour presented by the Emperor Maximilian I as a diplomatic gift to the English king Henry VIII in 1514. I trust no one will dispute that the old man would
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Does anyone still remember the popular baby hippo? To my mind, the sweet piglet by Hans Hoffmann, 1578, is not one whit less charming. Though, is there a single young creature in the world that fails to melt the heart?
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The Multimedia Art Museum is hosting a major exhibition of Igor Shelkovsky, "Celestial City. The Artist's Studio". Together with the retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery and MAMM, it is the largest exhibition of the master's work. Shelkovsky is one of the outstanding nonconformists, a
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At the close of 1983 the art dealer Gianfranco Becchina approached the Getty Museum in California, offering to sell it a beautifully preserved marble statue of the 6th century BC for a record 10 million dollars. The museum people naturally took the two-metre kouros away for examination, which pointed
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Good Lord, how touching! A memorial notice of the death of Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon king of England, in the Hastings Observer