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Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov. Anna Borisovna Stoyeva: “Whose Fly Is This?” 1965–1968 “Where have you landed, fly?” “In the milk, in the milk.” “Are you comfortable, old girl?” “Not at all, not at all.” “You might climb out a little.” “I can't, I can't.” “I'll
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"Apollo and Daphnis", Pietro Perugino, 1495
The identity of the figure with the flute is disputed: some believe him to be Daphnis, pining for love of a deity, while others see in the youth the satyr Marsyas. For a time the painting was exhibited in the Louvre under the title "Apollo and Marsyas". When
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There is a theory that the man in the red turban in the background of Van Eyck's "Madonna of Chancellor Rolin" of 1435 is the sitter of the "Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban" of 1433, in other words, the painter Jan van Eyck himself
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The First Official Portrait of King Charles III Says a Great Deal
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Will someone please summon Claude Monet at once
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Lithograph "To Lenin", by the artists from the Chuvash ASSR Dmitry Alekseyevich Minkov (1908–1998) and Mikhail Vasilyevich Romanov (1906–?)
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Berlin's “Man in a Golden Helmet” ceased to be regarded as a Rembrandt in 1984
In 1984 experts questioned the attribution of Rembrandt's Man in a Golden Helmet in the collection of the Berlin Art Gallery. Is it too much like Rembrandt to be Rembrandt? The work had been ascribed to Rembrandt for many years, until a special Dutch commission for establishing the
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Miniature face on a brick wall on Lev Tolstoy Street, author unknown
Dreadful street art on Lev Tolstoy Street. Own up: whose work is it?
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Crucifix from the church of San Domenico in Arezzo, wood, tempera and gold
Crucifix from the church of San Domenico in Arezzo, wood, tempera and gold. The work of Giotto's teacher, known under the pseudonym of Cimabue, dated to roughly 1268-1271
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Folio 14 of the Radziwill Chronicle from the late 15th century, with a miniature
The Campaign of Oleg the Prophetic against Tsargrad. Folio 14 of the Radziwiłł Chronicle, late fifteenth century
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Presumed design for a mirror commissioned by Alexander I from the jeweller Odiot
"A Dressing Table, Comprising a Gilt Mirror Whose Crown Is the Toilette of Venus" This is believed to be a design for the decorative part of a precious mirror commissioned from the French goldsmith Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot by Tsar Alexander I himself for his mistress between 1815