Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Portrait of a Senior Inspector. Art group "Rossiya". I very much liked this painting at the new exhibition in the Voznesensky Centre. The wall label states that the portrait on display belongs to a cycle of three images of senior inspectors of the group "Inspection Medical Hermeneutics&
Architecture · Art · London · Monarchies
A model of the memorial to Elizabeth II in St James's Park. The three-metre bronze figure will be based on a portrait of the Queen in her youth. In the background one can see a small sculpture of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. The memorial complex
Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
An exhibition of a single painting, "Titian. The Last Masterpiece: Saint Sebastian", has opened at the Hermitage. The end of the canvas's three-year restoration coincides with the 450th anniversary of Titian's death. The picture was painted in the technique of pittura a macchia,
Art · Observations · New York · Nature
If one is to recall how American painting began and what it portended, one must name the country's first major artistic movement, the Hudson River School. Its voice is usually presented as a hymn to untouched nature. But can you really not sense the anxiety in these majestic
Archaeology · Art · Observations · Heritage · Science · Nature
John Keats feared he might cease to be before his pen had gleaned his teeming brain, «before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain». Our concern is rather that, amid the informational din, the important things of the month should not get lost. Hence the regular digest: the
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Faith · Art · Museums · People
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is a former monastery turned psychiatric hospital. It was here that Vincent van Gogh admitted himself voluntarily in May 1889, a few months after cutting off part of his ear in Arles, and he spent a year here, until May 1890.
Art · Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
Klaus Kallmann, aged 98, has spent nine years suing the Musée d'Orsay in Paris over Vincent van Gogh's 1889 painting "The Hospital Saint-Paul at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence" Kallmann insists that he remembers it from childhood on the wall of his grandfather'
Faith · Art · Museums
The painting was executed in 1886 by Emmanuel Benner. Collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
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The artist Vladimir Yankilevsky in his studio on Preobrazhenskaya Street. Photograph by Igor Palmin, 1974
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Education · People · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "A Feat of Enlightened Philanthropy" for the 150th anniversary of the Central School of Technical Drawing, founded by Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz (1814-1884), the greatest Russian banker of his age, who financed the state loans for the Crimean War and the
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Rome
This is the first serious cleaning in more than 500 years of the frescoes of the glazed corridor on the second floor of the Apostolic Palace, overlooking the Cortile di San Damaso. The budget for the works is 5.5 million dollars. In addition to restoration, the paintings will be