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Elephants bathing in an engraving of 1682 from the Rijksmuseum
Elephants frolicking in the water. Engraving, 1682. Rijksmuseum
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The Marquise de Montespan as Judith, Thriftily Holding On to the Severed Head of Holofernes
Once more, for the record: the Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV and mother of seven of his children, in the guise of the Old Testament heroine Judith, the young widow who saved besieged Judea by cutting off the head of Nebuchadnezzar's general Holofernes, whom she had
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Which Lectures to Attend?
Which lectures to attend? If you are asking yourself this question and are in search of some intellectual leisure, I suggest casting an eye over the forthcoming events in Moscow. 🧩20 April, 12:00 Lecture “Anticipating Easter. The Raising of Lazarus and the Entry into Jerusalem”. Lecture hall of the
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At the exhibition "The Medieval Bestiary" at the Musée de Chantilly: a Flemish manuscript of the late fifteenth century, the Mirror of Human Salvation, with a scene of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
On the wall of the Earthly Paradise sits a Peacock, which in the Middle Ages was associated with the sin of pride, the very pride that made Adam and Eve think they could be equal to God?
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In June, Christie's Paris Old Master sale will offer a melon still life by the eighteenth-century French painter Jean Siméon Chardin
In June, Christie's Paris Old Master sale will offer a melon still life by the eighteenth-century French painter Jean Siméon Chardin. Painted in 1760, it is in an oval format, a rarity for Chardin. The estimate is €8-12 million.
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Engraving of the masked ball of 23 January 1782, given by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in honour of the birth of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, their eldest son, born after 11 years of marriage
Engraving of the masked ball of 23 January 1782, given by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in honour of the birth of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, their eldest son, born after 11 years of marriage. Louis Joseph was a sickly child and lived only 7 years, dying of tuberculosis
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Valery Alexandrovich Dudakov, one of the oldest and most authoritative collectors in Russia, who stood at the origins of the Collectors' Club of the Soviet Culture Foundation, created in 1987 on the basis of the country's largest private collections, show
Dudakov is showing paintings by precisely those artists with whom his collection began in 1970: Vladimir Nemukhin, Nikolai Vechtomov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Oskar Rabin, Boris Sveshnikov, Vladimir Weisberg, Mikhail Shvartsman, Yuli Sooster. Valery Alexandrovich knew the generation of the nonconformist "men of the sixties" personally and was friends with
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The Beating of Saint Anthony
Master of the Osservanza, c. 1430
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s installation “The Toilet” at Documenta in Kassel in 1992
The installation "The Toilet", Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Documenta festival, Kassel, Germany, 1992 We lived in a communal flat, and everyone used the same toilet… Good Lord! How does one build and preserve a wall between oneself and others, so that "they", these others, only appear
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Exhibition “Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel” on Zoya Boguslavskaya at the Voznesensky Center
The exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre is remarkably cohesive, although it embraces so many different incarnations of Zoya Borisovna: science, journalism, literature, civic engagement, art, all the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, the stories of the great figures who became part of her
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Early realist paintings by Piet Mondrian, later a pioneer of abstraction
Both paintings are by Piet Mondrian. Yes, the pioneer of abstraction began as a realist painter
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Erik Bulatov’s painting “Razrez” from the Tretyakov Gallery collection on show at MAMM
Cross-section. Erik Bulatov, 1965–66. Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. On view at the Erik Bulatov exhibition at the MAMM