Art · Museums
Young Woman Warming Her Hands over a Brazier: An Allegory of Winter
Caesar Pietersz van Everdingen, c. 1644 – c. 1648. Rijksmuseum collection
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Five installations at the festival in Kazan, where artists occupied 17 locations
I want to share the five most beautiful and, in my view, most significant art objects of the independent NUR International Media Art Festival, held in Kazan from 24 to 26 May, incidentally for the fourth time already. A great many artists gathered, spread over 17 locations, so there was
Faith · Art · Books
Maximilian Voloshin's poem “Our Lady of Vladimir”, 1929
Not on a throne, but on Her arm, His left little hand embracing Her neck, Gaze to gaze, cheek pressed to cheek, He makes his insistent demand… I am struck dumb, No strength, no words on my tongue… Gathered in a beast's tension, The Lion-cub Sphinx has
NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome
Statue of the Goddess Tyche as the Seleucid Capital in the Vatican Museums
I photographed this statue in the Vatican Museums some time ago because of its extraordinary crown. It turns out that this Roman copy of a Greek bronze depicts the goddess Tyche in the allegorical guise of the capital of the Seleucids. On her head sits a city wall, complete with
Faith · Art · Books · People
Pavel Florensky's reflection on the nature of the icon
Imagine that you are in a closed room, but there is a dimly lit window through which you begin to guess at the existence of another world. Pavel Florensky, reflecting on what an icon is
NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Ethnography
Kalmyk lama in an 1870 painting by Vasily Vereshchagin
Kalmyk Lama. Painting by Vasily Vereshchagin, 1870
Art · People · Society Pages · Humour
Vladey has opened a delightful exhibition to mark Pavel Pepperstein's joining the glittering Pleiad of painters of feasts and bards of the banquet table
The exhibition is called "Dinners", and every work depicts a dinner that might have taken place in the various halls and museums of contemporary art. Among the guests at these dinners one can make out Vladimir Lenin and Kazimir Malevich; Yayoi Kusama, whom the artist has surrealistically flattered
The East · Art · Observations · Ethnography
Lenin's Meeting with the Mongolian Delegation
A popular subject in twentieth-century Mongolian art. The Mongols' attire is very beautiful. What a pity that national dress is vanishing so rapidly all over the world.
Art · New York
A long-lost painting by Quentin Massys, founder of the Antwerp school of painting, known from seven copies by his own circle and from its appearance in another picture as one of the…
Faith · Art · Museums
Francisco de Zurbarán’s “Lamb of God” of 1639 and at least seven versions of the subject
Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29) The Lamb of God, Francisco de Zurbarán, 1639. At least seven versions of this subject by Zurbarán are known.
Archive · Art · Books · Paris
The ballet “Parade” with costumes by Picasso failed in Paris and succeeded in London in 1919
"The geometrical dauber and dabbler Picasso has pushed himself to the front of the stage, while talented artists humbly wait to be put on show," wrote the critic Léo Poldès on 19 May 1917 of Diaghilev's new Russian ballet, Parade… The characters of the ballet: the
Art · Moscow · Observations · People
The talent of Vera Mukhina in the sculpture “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman”
A Daily Declaration of Love to Moscow. And, of course, once again we doff our hats to the talent of Vera Ignatievna Mukhina.