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The first large-scale depiction of a female nude in Italian painting was the "Sleeping Venus", also known as the Dresden Venus, by the outstanding High Renaissance master Giorgione of Venice, 1508. The "Sleeping Venus" is considered the first painting in which the main subject is
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Attacks on Michelangelo's fresco "The Last Judgement" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel began while it was still being painted. The grievances were various: some disliked the treatment of the subject, others were displeased by the realistic manner of depiction. The masterpiece was called
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When Orest Kiprensky presented a portrait of his father to the Roman Academy of Painting, the president declared, on behalf of the Academy, that the Russian artist was attempting to pass off as his own work a painting from the brush of Rubens. Certain academicians expressed their conviction that the
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Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, already a very celebrated artist in Russia (1805: Large Gold Medal for the painting “Dmitry Donskoy on the Field of Kulikovo”; 1812: academician; his contemporaries called him the Russian Van Dyck), lived for long stretches in Rome, which he first reached in 1816, at the age of
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Alexander Ivanov worked on “The Appearance of Christ Before the People” for twenty years, although he had expected to finish it within the span of his Italian placement. His close friend Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, incidentally portrayed in the painting as the figure nearest to Christ, wrote that “Ivanov has long
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Remembered the Easter wallpapers for phones from the year before last. Enjoy
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On Monday we went to the Alina Pinsky Gallery to see the True Colours exhibition, and I am still under the spell of its play with colour; I deliberately tried to catch several rooms in a single frame, to show the dialogue across the white walls between dissimilar but equally
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Observing Passengers on the Metro. The duo of Pavel Pepperstein and Sonya Stereostyrski has presented a new series of works, "Ziggurats", at the Vladey space
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