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Criticism of Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement” and the clothing added by Daniele da Volterra
Attacks on Michelangelo's fresco "The Last Judgement" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel began while it was still being painted. The grievances were various: some disliked the treatment of the subject, others were displeased by the realistic manner of depiction. The masterpiece was called
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German half-armours of 1575–1580
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Roman Academy takes Orest Kiprensky's portrait of his father for a Rubens
When Orest Kiprensky presented a portrait of his father to the Roman Academy of Painting, the president declared, on behalf of the Academy, that the Russian artist was attempting to pass off as his own work a painting from the brush of Rubens. Certain academicians expressed their conviction that the
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Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, already a very celebrated artist in Russia (1805: Large Gold Medal for the painting “Dmitry Donskoy on the Field of Kulikovo”; 1812: academician; his contemporaries called him the Russian Van Dyck), lived for long stretches in R
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, already a very celebrated artist in Russia (1805: Large Gold Medal for the painting “Dmitry Donskoy on the Field of Kulikovo”; 1812: academician; his contemporaries called him the Russian Van Dyck), lived for long stretches in Rome, which he first reached in 1816, at the age of
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Change.org removes petition against Netflix show “Queen Cleopatra” with 51,625 signatures
Well, well: the petition to axe the history-falsifying show about a black Cleopatra has simply been taken down. How democratic
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Makes a Most Unexpected Connection Between the Easter Festivities and a Rise in Mortality
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov makes a most unexpected connection between the Easter festivities and a rise in mortality. In one of his letters to Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in 1761, speaking of Easter, Lomonosov describes the dangers to life and the multitude of deaths that overtake the Orthodox people every year.
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Mikhail Lomonosov in 1761 on worldly thoughts on the eve of Easter
"The bright Resurrection of Christ draws near, the universal joy of Christendom. Then, though the Passion of the Lord is read almost without cease and many times repeated, our thoughts are already upon Holy Week: one pictures to himself pleasant and rich dishes; another wonders whether his clothes will
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Figure of Christ on a barren hill, detail of a painting
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Bringing Ivanov’s “The Appearance of Christ” to Russia and to the Tretyakov Gallery
Alexander Ivanov worked on “The Appearance of Christ Before the People” for twenty years, although he had expected to finish it within the span of his Italian placement. His close friend Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, incidentally portrayed in the painting as the figure nearest to Christ, wrote that “Ivanov has long
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The author recalls the Easter phone wallpapers from the year before last
Remembered the Easter wallpapers for phones from the year before last. Enjoy
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On Monday we went to the Alina Pinsky Gallery to see the True Colours exhibition, and I am still under the spell of its play with colour; I deliberately tried to catch several rooms in a single frame, to show the dialogue across the white walls between…
On Monday we went to the Alina Pinsky Gallery to see the True Colours exhibition, and I am still under the spell of its play with colour; I deliberately tried to catch several rooms in a single frame, to show the dialogue across the white walls between dissimilar but equally