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Could Vincent van Gogh Have Dreamed of Such Fame?
A reproduction of Van Gogh's self-portrait in the setting of the 2003 Bollywood romantic comedy "I'm Going Mad with Love"
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Equestrian Portrait of Prince Boris Nikolayevich Yusupov, 1809, by Antoine-Jean Gros
Equestrian portrait of Prince Boris Nikolayevich Yusupov, 1809, by Antoine-Jean Gros. Collection of the Pushkin Museum
Architecture · Art · London · Monarchies · Heritage
The 1834 fire at Westminster Palace in London and the paintings of William Turner
189 years ago in London the medieval Palace of Westminster, the ancient residence of the English kings, burned down. The painter William Turner, like most Londoners, watched the fire to the very end. The palace, where Parliament had sat since the sixteenth century, was almost completely destroyed. Turner got into
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But which of the Stalinist skyscrapers, precisely, is reflected in the helmet of the guardsman in Gerard David's 1498 painting "The Judgement of Cambyses", made for the courtroom of the town hall in Bruges?
Art · Moscow · Observations
Nikolai Sapunov’s Work “Still Life with a Self-Portrait”, 1910–1911
I very much liked this painting at the new exhibition at the In Artibus foundation marking the centenary of Dmitry Vladimirovich Sarabyanov. The work is Nikolay Sapunov's "Still Life with a Self-Portrait", 1910-1911. You have to look very closely to find the self-portrait
Art · Books · Museums · Observations
The Jewish Museum invites visitors to look at art through the prism of Kafka's work
The Jewish Museum invites visitors to look at art through the prism of Kafka's work. At the entrance they hand out booklets, one red and one brown. The two routes, we are told, are built on the story "The Metamorphosis" and the novel "The Trial&
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Parrot, Kees van Dongen, 1910
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums
At the Vladey gallery at 14 Neglinnaya Street, an exhibition by Vlad Kulkov / Leonid Tskhe, "The Risk-Taker and the Magus", has opened
Archive · Art · Mores · Paris
Robert Doisneau’s “The Kiss” from the 1950 Life shoot to the court case and the auction
Robert Doisneau's famous photograph "The Kiss" was taken for Life magazine in 1950. Doisneau noticed a couple kissing in a Parisian café and proposed that they take part in a shoot, paying them a handsome 500 francs, which in our day is almost 1,500 euros.
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Theatre audience applauding, a photograph by Robert Doisneau, 1950s
At the theatre, 1950s. Robert Doisneau
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The day before his death, on 11 October 1963, the 74-year-old Jean Cocteau compared his life to the progress of a roller-coaster car and said that he still wanted the rails to climb once more
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Good Morning, Time to Get Up
Rembrandt, 1655