Why do all the sitters in the paintings of the Dutch painter Godfried Schalcken have the same face, just like Moscow's party girls?
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Villa Marmottan Library in Boulogne-Billancourt Holds a Collection on the Napoleonic Era
The Villa Marmottan library is a hidden sight of Paris, situated in the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. This former mansion of the historian Paul Marmottan has today been turned into a unique public library under the aegis of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Unlike the popular Musée Marmottan Monet, this
Rembrandt, the painting “Philosopher Reading”: an old man with a book in a vaulted hall
Philosopher Reading. Rembrandt Be like this philosopher. Or like Rembrandt, for that matter. As far as your strength allows
Hieromonk Sofontiy of the Kerzhenets, an Old Believer father: his grave, his following and his portrayal by Melnikov-Pechersky
In the Trans-Volga forests on the river Kerzhenets, not far from Semyonov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, stands a cross over the grave of Hieromonk Sophonty, one of the most revered fathers of the Old Believers. Tradition names Sophonty as one of seven Solovetsky monks who fled the monastery
Elder Fyodor Kuzmich and Emperor Alexander I: the case for their identity, the views of historians and the position of the Church
A mural in Tomsk showing Saint Theodore of Tomsk, also known as Elder Fyodor Kuzmich, and Emperor Alexander I, whom many consider to be one and the same man. I am inclined to think so too. The man who called himself Fyodor Kuzmich appeared in 1836 in Perm Governorate, was