Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. And that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.. The story of Job, one of the greatest of the righteous, has drawn many artists, but one of the most piercing illustrations
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Art · Museums · Nature
The delicate flowers of the Dutch Baroque artist Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609-1685) are part of one of his last commissions. Twenty-seven drawings of flowers and plants are known that Saftleven produced at the end of his life for Agneta Block. She commissioned several painters at once to
Art · Books
Aeneas, Latinus and Turnus (ENEA, RE LATINO, TVRNNO) King Latinus, one hand resting on a round relief shield and the other on the hilt of his sword, stands before us, while Aeneas and Turnus, on either side of him, glare at one another in quarrel, the one with a dagger,
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The Burning of Troy, with the Flight of Aeneas and Anchises, by François de Nomé (1593-1644) We learn of the flight of Aeneas, his aged father Anchises and his young son Ascanius from blazing Troy in the second book of Virgil's "Aeneid". The subject is
NB! · Coming Up · The East · Art · Paris
A girl resting by the water. The artist is Étienne Dinet, who fell in love with Algeria and its people and created a beautiful Algerian cycle. The painting is now on show at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, in an exhibition that runs until June
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Interviews · Cinema · People
One of the finest masters of Russian cinema, the director Vadim Abdrashitov (1945-2023), when asked whether he considered his films arthouse, replied:. I think that the pictures Mindadze and I made can hardly be assigned to this, so to speak, movement. So to speak, I stress. Because we always
Art · Nature · Humour
The depiction of monkeys in human guise in various comic situations became a distinct genre in the 16th and 17th centuries. This parodic genre was called singerie, from the French for "monkey business". Monkeys in human attire first appeared in Flemish painting; it is enough to name Pieter
Architecture · Faith · London · Observations
A 1904 project envisaged a new neo-Gothic abbey in the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey, which had been judged too crowded with antiquities. The complex was to include the tallest building in Great Britain, far higher than the towers of Westminster, Big Ben and Saint Paul's Cathedral.
Archaeology · Art · Observations
The Breathtakingly Beautiful Kondon Nefertiti, One of the Greatest Sculptures of Humankind, a Clay Figurine Made in the 4th–3rd Millennium BC, Was Found in 1963 at the Camp of Settled Fishermen 80 Kilometres from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The figurine was named Nefertiti at once, as soon as it emerged