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The Angel with a Nail
From the collection of the Perm State Art Gallery. The exhibition “From Icon to Avant-Garde” at the New Tretyakov Gallery
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The Cover of the Latest New Yorker
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Painting by Sweerts, once attributed to Pacheco De Rosa, and the allegory of Smell
Youth in a Turban with a Bouquet of Flowers, Michael Sweerts, 1650s. The painting was originally attributed to another artist, the Italian Pacheco De Rosa, who lived at the same time as the Netherlander Sweerts. The subject of this picture may belong to the series of the five senses, twice
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Catherine II Setting Out for a Falcon Hunt, Valentin Serov, 1902
Catherine II Setting Out for a Falcon Hunt, Valentin Serov, 1902. Tempera on paper
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Statuette of Venus (Greek or Roman, 1st millennium BC), carved from rock crystal after the model of the Hellenistic statue of the bathing Venus
Statuette of Venus (Greek or Roman, 1st millennium BC), carved from rock crystal after the model of the Hellenistic statue of the bathing Venus. Getty Collection
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Peter II and Tsesarevna Elizabeth Out Hunting with Hounds, Valentin Serov, 1900
Peter II and Tsesarevna Elizabeth Out Hunting with Hounds, Valentin Serov, 1900. Tempera and gouache on paper mounted on board
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US soldiers with Manet’s “In the Conservatory”, looted by the Nazis, in the Merkers mines in 1945
US Army soldiers in the Merkers mine vault with Édouard Manet's painting "In the Conservatory", looted by the Nazis. 25 April 1945
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Eros Stringing His Bow
Eros stringing his bow. The Hermitage. Roman marble copy of the 2nd century AD after a Greek bronze original of the second half of the 4th century BC.
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"In the Air, Brenner Island", 1996 and "Island Roses", 1978
"In the Air, Brenner Island", 1996 and "Island Roses", 1978. The magic realism of the American artist Jamie Wyeth
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And There My Review of the Contemporary Art Fair Comes to an End
And there my review of the contemporary art fair comes to an end. In all the photographs for the society pages I shall appear with the KM20 bag; when the photographers offered to shoot me without the carrier bag, I replied: I am not ashamed of carrier bags.
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I Could Not Get a Word with the Artist, but One of the Plasticine Women, the One on the Right, Appears to Be Interacting with a Giant Tardigrade
I could not get a word with the artist, but one of the plasticine women, the one on the right, appears to be interacting with a giant tardigrade. And there is, after all, a great deal of interest to discuss with a tardigrade; I would gladly have had a chat