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The singerie genre and the fashion for monkeys in human dress in Flanders and France
The depiction of monkeys in human guise in various comic situations became a distinct genre in the 16th and 17th centuries. This parodic genre was called singerie, from the French for "monkey business". Monkeys in human attire first appeared in Flemish painting; it is enough to name Pieter
Archaeology · Art · Observations
Neolithic Nefertiti figurine from the Kondon-pochta settlement and the Amur Venuses
The Breathtakingly Beautiful Kondon Nefertiti, One of the Greatest Sculptures of Humankind, a Clay Figurine Made in the 4th–3rd Millennium BC, Was Found in 1963 at the Camp of Settled Fishermen 80 Kilometres from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The figurine was named Nefertiti at once, as soon as it emerged
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations
“Living Sculptures”, the second exhibition of the “Systems of Mimicry” project at the Az/Art space, curated by Alexander Dashevsky, has gathered works by Igor Shelkovsky, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Vadim Sidur, Pyotr Dyakov, Alexander Ney, Elena…
The exhibition makes one attend to the place of the body in artistic language, to the interpretations of the body in different media, and to the influence that perceptions of corporeality exert on art. It opens with a sketch from a beach in besieged Leningrad, one that, according to the
NB! · Art · People
In René Magritte's Studio
Architecture · Art · Heritage
Allegories of the months in the frescoes of the Salone dei Mesi in an Italian palace
Allegory of March, fresco in the Hall of the Months in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara. The Salone dei Mesi (Hall of the Months) is one of the masterpieces of Italian palace architecture, famous for the allegorical frescoes symbolising the months on the walls of a hall 24 metres long, 11
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Primulas, Anna Cotterill (1933-2010)
NB! · Architecture · Art · Moscow
Alexander Deineka’s mosaics on the vaults of Mayakovskaya metro station in Moscow
Smalti mosaic panels after sketches by Alexander Deineka on the vaults of Mayakovskaya metro station. One of the most beautiful details of the Moscow Metro
Art · Humour
Monolisa 2.0: A New Picture for a New World!
Monolisa 2.0: A new picture for a new world! The art of our own day. If this is not genius, then what is?
Faith · Art · Moscow · Mores
The opera "Stiffelio" never became widely known
The opera "Stiffelio" never became widely known. On its appearance in 1850 it was mangled by the censors and consigned to oblivion. The story of a married Protestant pastor capable of forgiving his wife her infidelity provoked a stormy and hostile reaction in Catholic Italy. Years later Verdi
NB! · Archive · Art · Ethnography
Sketches of Lapp Life, Early Eighteenth Century
Art · Observations · People · Humour
Brothers Carduccios Plantagenet and Morston Constantine, Artists from Ohio
The Edible, Exceedingly Appetising Still Lifes of the American Painter Carduccius Plantagenet Ream (1838-1917) And note that Carduccius Plantagenet is his given name; his brother, also a well-known painter, was called Morston Constantine. They were born in Ohio, and Carduccius studied in London. We must, of course, pay