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A Stunning Picture!
A stunning picture! “Mont Blanc, Vue de la Serpe. Storm Effect”. Théodore Rousseau, 1834. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
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NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Museums
A Crystal Reliquary in the Shape of a Fish on Legs, for the Relics of Mary Magdalene: Egyptian Work of the Sixteenth Century
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
The mood of not going to school tomorrow, as I look at Edward Hopper's 1935 painting "House at Dusk"
NB! · Faith · Observations · People
Pope Francis is unwell
Pope Francis is unwell. Today he asked an aide to read his address in his stead. The Vatican reports that after last week's audience the Pope went to hospital for diagnostic tests. And what is there to test, at 87, after all?
NB! · Art · Paris · People
Erik Bulatov before the paintings of Mark Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Architecture · Faith · Observations · Society · Paris
On the official poster for the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Christian cross has been removed from the spire of Les Invalides
What scoundrels they are, they are no longer ashamed of anything
NB! · Art · London · Observations · Humour
The habit of the city dweller: spotting signs of atmospheric pollution even in a seventeenth-century rural landscape with a view of the English palace of Whitehall
The habit of the city dweller: spotting signs of atmospheric pollution even in a seventeenth-century rural landscape with a view of the English palace of Whitehall. Dutch master Hendrik Danckerts
NB! · Art
A Woman Looking at the Night Sky, Jan Luyken, 1687
Archive · Art · Education · Saint Petersburg
"I remember that in the private Tenishev studio run by Repin, a student turned up in our group who proved to be colour-blind
"I remember that in the private Tenishev studio run by Repin, a student turned up in our group who proved to be colour-blind. He drew well, but when he took up the brush, faces and objects acquired unnatural colours and shades under his hand. Repin did not know
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Profile portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat, oil painting in a wooden frame
Coming Up · Archive · Art · Museums · Education
New Jerusalem Museum opens “Master Repin”, an exhibition on Ilya Repin as a teacher
“When looking over the work of his pupils he spoke for the most part abruptly, in short phrases: ‘The head is too small’, ‘The hand is drawn wrongly’... Why too small, why wrongly, Repin usually did not explain, but demanded that his pupils grasp it for themselves. Yet at times
Cinema · Books · Saint Petersburg
Kusturica on his plans to adapt Dostoevsky, Vodolazkin and Gogol for the screen
Emir Kusturica Plans a New Project Based on Two Works by Dostoevsky. Kusturica has said that he will shoot his next film in Saint Petersburg and Siberia. It is to be called “Crime Without Punishment”, a blend of “The Idiot” and “Crime and Punishment”. After Dostoevsky, Kusturica intends to set