Oil painting of a boy carrying food along a back lane beside terraced houses, with a van marked CHIPS and an industrial plant in the distance.

Art

Work by the British artist John Lines, born in 1938

The Boy with the Chips. The British artist John Lines (b. 1938)

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Napoleon's Height in English Caricature and in Data on the French of His Time

Napoleon thought highly of his own portrait by Jacques-Louis David, which commemorates his Alpine victory at the Battle of Marengo, and ordered three copies of the canvas. What could better serve to strengthen Bonaparte's reputation than the image of a dashing horseman, his hair streaming in the

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French Aristocratic Fashion of the Eighteenth Century

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Fried Potatoes

Fried potatoes. British artist Eric Satchwell (1926-2012)

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The Prophet Jonah and the Whale

The Prophet Jonah and the whale. By Tommaso di Antonio Finiguerra, an artist of the early Italian Renaissance and the Florentine school. It is curious that, in place of a whale, Finiguerra drew the heraldic dolphin of Florence, enlarged to improbable dimensions. As for the likelihood of surviving inside the

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The Kostroma Museum-Reserve holds an interesting collection of carved icons, among them this highly detailed Last Judgement of the 19th century

Jesus is seated upon a blue sphere. At the centre is the Etimasia, the judgement throne, where souls will be judged. At the right hand of Christ are the righteous, making their way into the garden of Paradise with the Mother of God and the saints. At the left hand

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“Maiden on the Beast” by Natalya Goncharova from the “Harvest” polyptych and the Apocalypse

The Maiden on the Beast. Natalia Goncharova. 1911. Kostroma Museum-Reserve collection; the painting is on permanent display at the Romanov Museum. "The Maiden on the Beast" is part of the nine-part polyptych "The Harvest", whose paintings are now held in different collections, while two

Black-and-white photo of a woman in a short dress and cap covered with flowers walking hand in hand with a man in a dark suit, with children and a policeman behind.

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Susan Hampshire married in 1967 in a Dior dress with organza daisies

A Dior dress with hundreds of organza daisies. The actress Susan Hampshire wore it on her wedding day in 1967

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The goddess Fortuna, blindfolded, with enough hands to bring luck to everyone

15th century

Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages

Exhibition of Alexander Yulikov's work from over 50 years opens at the Tretyakov Gallery

An exhibition of the outstanding master of geometric abstraction, the first Russian minimalist Alexandr Yulikov, has opened at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The display brings together works spanning more than 50 years, which allows one to trace the development of the artist's method and his turn

A woman in a black dress rests her head on the edge of an open chest, with a white satin dress and white shoes on the floor beside her.

Art · Observations · Mores

Painting by Frederick William Elwell, 1911, of a woman in black beside an open chest

Remembering what the wedding dress cost. Frederick William Elwell, 1911

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On his portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome, surrounded by animals, Lucas Cranach hung on the wall a Madonna and Child from his own brush