A Contraption for When You Have Been Set Far Too Much Homework.
Friends are busily sharing a photograph of a device for working with documents dating from as far back as 1580. Something similar can be found in many libraries, and not only in antique versions either: it is a thoroughly relevant object, good for newspapers and folios alike.
Philosopher Reading. Rembrandt Be like this philosopher. Or like Rembrandt, for that matter. As far as your strength allows
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
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
The Surbarán exhibition at the Louvre opens with the "Crucifixion" that launched the painter's fame in Seville in 1627. The Dominicans of the monastery of San Pablo el Real commissioned 21 paintings from the young Surbarán, and this vast canvas, almost three metres high, became the