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Art · Museums · Paris
Official Gold Badge of a Member of the Jury of the 1900 Summer Olympic Games
Artist: Louis Alexandre Bottée. On the tongue of the reverse, the label “Christofle, orfèvres, Paris”.
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · People
Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Joseph Kreutzinger and the Children of Maria Theresa
Marie Antoinette in hunting dress. The portrait by Joseph Kreutzinger of 1771 was one of the favourites of Marie Antoinette's mother, Empress Maria Theresa, although she disliked her daughter's habit of hunting on horseback. Maria Theresa, herself a legendary woman of European history, had 16 children.
Geography · Art · Books · Museums · Nature
Andrey Bely’s poem “On the Mountains” about a hunchback and pineapples on a cliff
Mountains in bridal wreaths. I am in raptures and young. On my mountain-tops there is a purifying cold. Here, up to my crag, a white-haired hunchback has dragged himself. He has brought me as a gift pineapples from the subterranean hothouses. He danced in crimson-bright, glorifying the
Art · Books · Observations · Rome
In Concord Small States Grow, in Discord the Greatest Fall to Nothing
Sometimes this thought of the ancient Roman historian Gaius Sallust (Concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur) is rendered more literally: as harmony makes small things grow, so discord brings the great to ruin. Illustration: Pieter Birmann, Roman ruins of the Arch of Titus, 1781–90
Art · Museums · Observations · New York
Sculpture of the 1890s that once stood atop Madison Square Garden in New York
Augustus Saint-Gaudens's golden statue of Diana on the grand staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art proves that a real longing for beauty, not without a touch of the transcendent, can exist even in a country of such vulgar and ostentatious materialis. This sculpture of the 1890s
Art · Mores · Paris · People
Surgeon Samuel Pozzi, his romance with Sarah Bernhardt and her 1915 leg amputation
The celebrated surgeon and simply the handsomest man of his day, Samuel Jean Pozzi, captured in an equally celebrated portrait by John Singer Sargent, was the hero of numerous love affairs. One of them bound him to the greatest actress of her age, Sarah Bernhardt. The vivid romance between the
NB! · Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies
"Concert Given by the Duc de Nevers in Honour of the Dauphin's Birthday", by the Baroque Italian painter Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1751
NB! · Art · Observations
Three-legged winged bronze chair by Mark Brazier-Jones, 1990
Marc Brazier-Jones, Three-Legged Winged Chair, bronze, 1990. I reckon one ought to take it
Art · Observations · Society · Paris
Saint-Germain-des-Prés gallery owners complain about barriers and QR code passes during the Olympics
Art gallery owners in some Paris neighbourhoods complain that, despite the appeals for a cultural contribution to the Olympics, access to their galleries has simply been blocked. And the question is no longer one of boosting sales in the tourist season, but of how the gallery staff themselves are to
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
Works by Alexandra Exter at the exhibition “Girlfriends” for Varvara Stepanova’s anniversary at the Pushkin Museum
Works by Alexandra Exter, one of the key women artists of Russian Constructivism, at the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova", which opened yesterday in the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Archive · Art · Society
Genre painting urging the English in wartime to eat simple, readily available food
“Dig for Victory: The Wise Eat More Potatoes”, Charles Spencelayh, 1942. A genre painting with a social purpose, urging the English in the hard years of war to change their consumer habits in favour of simple, readily available foodstuffs