Art · Museums · Observations · Rome

Marble Vestal Tuccia by Antonio Corradini, 1743, in Palazzo Barberini

This veiled marble maiden is one of the celebrated sculptural series of her day. She was created by Antonio Corradini in 1743. Her maker was, in a manner of speaking, the darling of the European courts: sovereigns and aristocrats alike longed to possess his work. Above all, Corradini specialised in

Faith · Art

Christ Leading the Righteous out of Hell, fresco of 1365-1368

Christ Leading the Righteous out of Hell, fresco of 1365-1368 by Andrea Bonaiuti da Firenze in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Beneath the shattered gates of hell, through which Christ leads out Adam and those who died before the Resurrection, we see evil, hideous and cowering,

Art · Museums · Rome · Humour

The Dutch painter Johannes van Wijkerslot replies to the Italian Bartolomeo Mendozzi

1: A youth playing cards. Presumably Bartolomeo Mendozzi, 1630s. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome. 2: A card game on a cradle (detail). Johannes van Wijkerslot, 1683. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Dead Christ in a crown of thorns, bare to the waist, between the Virgin in a dark veil on the left and John in a blue cloak on the right, before a landscape.

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Giovanni Bellini’s “Pietà” of 1460 in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

"The grief that Bellini conceived here is divine only in its excess of humanity," the English painter and art critic Roger Fry. The panel "Pietà" or "The Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and Saint John the Evangelist" by Giovanni Bellini, 1460. Pinacoteca di

Rows of terracotta warriors with beards and pointed caps, resembling garden gnomes, stand in a dark hall.

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Max Papeschi's project Extinction. Chapter one, a terracotta army at Milan airport

The Terracotta Army at Milan airport. Extinction. Chapter One, a project by the Milanese contemporary artist Max Papeschi

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A Francis Bacon Self-Portrait on the Cover of George Orwell

A Francis Bacon self-portrait on the cover of George Orwell. What a stroke of luck, my dropping in just now

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The International Art Russia Fair and Art Forum Is Being Held at Gostiny Dvor from 28 to 31 March

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“Moscow Window” and “Question-Exclamation

“Moscow Window” and “Question-Exclamation. Black on Red”, works by Erik Bulatov on the cover of RBC Style alongside an interview with Olga Sviblova on the opening of Bulatov’s solo exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum: probably the most anticipated project of the start of the year

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If you rest, then like Guido Reni's Sleeping Putto, 1627-1628

Engraving dated 1514 with the monogram AD: a man and a woman dance, the man behind the woman with one arm flung up.

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Albrecht Dürer depicts a dancing couple in an engraving of 1514

Two Dance. Albrecht Dürer, 1514

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Palazzo Vecchio, the apartments of Francesco I de' Medici (1541-1587), Grand Duke of Tuscany, Florence

Palazzo Vecchio, the apartments of Francesco I de' Medici (1541-1587), Grand Duke of Tuscany, Florence. Allegory of fire in the ceiling paintings and the instruction of the centaur Chiron by Apollo, god of Light

Coming Up · Art · Books · Museums · Paris

Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves

Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves. The display consists of manuscripts, codices, printed books and a great many works of art, showing the