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Venus Anadyomene, rising from the sea, as painted by Botticelli (1484-86), Titian (1522), Poussin (1635-36) and Cornelis de Vos (1651)
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Queen Victoria in life and Queen Victoria in a drawing by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Queen Victoria in life and Queen Victoria in a drawing by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Oh, these British artists
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Ethnography
We all love stories about old men and women who adorn their cottages with the gold of village baroque, turn plain country houses into galleries of the lubok and, with no artistic training whatever, paint vast canvases on themes…
We all love stories about old men and women who adorn their cottages with the gold of village baroque, turn plain country houses into galleries of the lubok and, with no artistic training whatever, paint vast canvases on themes of simple Russian life. These artistic phenomena are usually classed as
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An Eighteenth-Century Barbie: The English Poet Christopher Anstey and His Daughter in a Portrait by William Hoare
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Georgy Kizevalter's exhibition “Artist-Collector” opens at MMOMA on 27 July
On 27 July the MMOMA Education Centre at 17 Yermolayevsky Lane will open "Artist-Collector", an exhibition project by Georgy Kizevalter, a representative of Moscow Conceptualism and one of the founders of the art group Collective Actions. Kizevalter works in such media as painting, photography, installation and performance,
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If you thought that only we could produce a frightening statue of Alyonushka, look at this ghastly Greta Thunberg from the University of Winchester
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt painting from the Duke de Caderousse collection acquired by Prince Golitsyn
The Return of the Prodigal Son: one of Rembrandt's last paintings, one of the chief masterpieces of the Hermitage and one of the greatest canvases in human history. The painting is most often dated to 1666-1669. But since very little is known about the last years of
NB! · Archive · Art · London · Museums
The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum, 1885
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The Golden Halo of the Virgin in Piero della Francesca's Polyptych of Saint Anthony
Piero della Francesca, Polyptych of Saint Anthony. The Virgin's halo, a single plate of solid gold in which her head is reflected
Art · Madrid · Museums
Painting of a dog by Francisco Goya, created between 1821 and 1823
The Dog. Francisco Goya, 1821-1823
Art · Monarchies · Observations
The golden sceptre of Empress Charlotte of Mexico, daughter of the King of the Belgians, sold for €120,000
The golden sceptre of Empress Charlotte of Mexico, Princess of Belgium, has been sold for €120,000. Plus the auction house's commission, naturally, which is usually some 20 to 30 per cent of the sale price. In my view, this was a thoroughly successful sale and an excellent