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Scrovegni Chapel in Padua with Giotto’s frescoes nearly demolished in the 19th century

The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Consecrated on the feast of the Annunciation in 1303 and dedicated to the Virgin. The frescoes are by Giotto. Now a world-famous masterpiece of proto-Renaissance church decoration, the Scrovegni Chapel, built for the private use of a single family, became extraordinarily popular for its

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Digital art on show at the Ruarts gallery in Zachatyevsky Lane

Fragment of an old fresco showing Christ in a round medallion, with a second medallion below containing a faint image.

Faith · Art · Heritage

The Book of Wisdom of Solomon on the souls of the righteous in God's hand

Andrei Rublev's Frescoes in the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir. But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be a disaster,

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Leonid Tskhe's exhibition “Capriccio” on embraces opens at the Vladey gallery in Moscow

Leonid Tskhe's exhibition "Capriccio", on the theme of embraces, has opened at the Vladey gallery on Neglinnaya. Most of Leonid Tskhe's works have no subject, yet in the paintings of the Capriccio series one can indeed make out both a Pietà and a Descent

Art · Observations

Exhibition on ten trends in Russian contemporary art of the past five years at Sistema gallery

Sistema gallery hosts an interesting survey exhibition, 10 Trends in Contemporary Russian Art of the Past Five Years. The display fills the whole of the gallery's large building and represents the principal tendencies in art through the work of contemporary artists: from post-digital art to naive art,

A blue horse with three eyes on green hills under a pale sun, with a ladybird sitting on its back.

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Work by Syugir Buluktaev with a three-eyed horse at the Sistema gallery opening

Syugir Buluktayev's horse at the opening at Sistema gallery, all three of whose eyes have popped out of their sockets at the art on view. To make sense of the sheer quantity of art events now taking place, one requires the serenity of a blissful ladybird

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Costume Design for the Spider in the Ballet "Mukha-Tsokotukha" (The Fly Who Went A-Shopping), 1980

Tatyana Georgievna Bruni (1902-2001), granddaughter of the architect and painter Yuly Fyodorovich Bruni, great-granddaughter of the artist Fyodor Antonovich Bruni

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The New Monument to Elizabeth II and Prince Philip as Vivid Evidence of the Complete Decline of the Art of Sculpture

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An Ancient Greek Lyre of Tortoiseshell and Wood

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The mood at the fair is brisk, the young are pondering love, loneliness, existential questions, feeling nostalgic for the nineties, the noughties and, apparently, the 2010s, seeking new forms, expressing themselves in different media, using unusual techni

The mood at the fair is brisk, the young are pondering love, loneliness, existential questions, feeling nostalgic for the nineties, the noughties and, apparently, the 2010s, seeking new forms, expressing themselves in different media, using unusual techniques such as the metal lace of Artem Lyapin. Embroidery and other kinds of

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A few more impressions worth sharing

A few more impressions worth sharing. Works that caught my eye

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Design section at Blazar with a shelving unit by Bureau Sknypl and a couch by Bureau Saga

In the design section at Blazar I was glad to see the work of my friends: the insanely cool shelving unit from Bureau Sknypl and the laconic daybed from Bureau Saga. It is pleasant to know that our artists, designers and architects produce such a high-quality, competitive product. A