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Leonardo da Vinci, Adoration of the Magi, 1481-82
The work was never completed, and the monastery of San Donato a Scopeto commissioned the Adoration from Filippino Lippi instead. Leonardo depicted the Magi differently from the accepted manner: they do not walk one after another bearing their gifts, but worship the infant Christ simultaneously, as he sits in the
The East · Art · Books
"The Merchant of Venice" first appeared in Japanese in 1883
The translator, Inoue Tsutomu, gave the book the title "The Trial of the Pledged Flesh". The action was transposed into contemporary settings, and in Utagawa Yoshimune's illustrations the characters appear in the dress and surroundings of the nineteenth century
Art · London · Museums
Madonna and Child, attributed to Antonello da Messina, 1460s
In the infant's hands is a pomegranate. The painting is usually called the Salting Madonna, after the man who bequeathed it to the National Gallery in London.
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Tretyakov Gallery opens a small exhibition of Alexander Ivanov's graphic works
A chamber display of Alexander Ivanov's drawings has opened in the main building of the Tretyakov Gallery, which holds the greater part of his legacy. The gallery's collection includes more than 700 separate sheets by Ivanov and 40 albums. The exhibition is in the room next
Art · Cinema · Museums · Pop Culture · Humour
Works by Vasnetsov, Bryullov and Repin in Dumbledore's Office at Hogwarts
As everyone knows, the portraits of Hogwarts' former headmasters, famous wizards and other eminent figures of the magical world hang in Dumbledore's office. But look closely, and among these sorcerers you will find Ivan the Terrible, as painted by Vasnetsov. Nor is that the only discovery the
Art · Moscow · Museums · Ethnography
Portrait of Surikov's niece Tatyana Domozhilova in a mosquito net, 1891
In the Surikov Room (Room 28) of the Tretyakov Gallery, a small portrait of a woman in an unusual headdress catches the eye; it turns out to be not a veil but a mosquito net. It is a portrait of Surikov's niece Tatyana Kapitonovna Domozhilova in traditional Siberian
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Saint Sebastian, Raphael, before 1504
NB! · Archive · The East · Art · Ethnography
The carpet “Olympiad” of 1979 by Arif Gandi oglu Ismailov
"Olympiad" carpet, 1979. Designed by Arif Gandi ogly Ismailov
NB! · Art · Monarchies · People
Catherine II at 33, still Grand Duchess, in mourning for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, 1762
Catherine II at 33, still Grand Duchess, in mourning for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, 1762. Portrait by Vigilius Eriksen, who was one of Catherine's favourite painters.
NB! · Art · Books · Observations
Officially in Love with the 1965 Cover of "Fathers and Sons", Borrowed from a Nineteenth-Century Russian Songbook
Art · Mores · Humour
Throw out the junk ✔️ Invite old friends round ✔️
Jules Le Roy, 1900