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Mosaic glass bowl in dark blue and milk white, 1st century BC, in the Getty Museum collection
Bowl of translucent dark blue and milk-white mosaic glass, 1st century BC. Collection of the Getty Museum
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How do you like the nereids at the base of the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna, mid-sixteenth century, by the sculptor Giambologna?
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The Exquisite Clouds of the German Artist Otto Modersohn, 1892
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The exhibition "Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii" at the Great Palaestra runs until 15 January 2023
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Ascalaphus, Hades’ gardener, is turned into an owl for betraying Persephone’s secret
Ascalaphus, Hades' gardener, is turned into an owl as punishment for revealing that Persephone had tasted the food of the dead, pomegranate seeds, and so cannot return to the world of the living. Ovid's Metamorphoses
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Paris
A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from…
A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from the prison of La Petite Force to the
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome
Ancient Sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica on Display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport
Ancient sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica have gone on display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport. A capital idea for a museum partnership!
Architecture · Art · Museums
Peggy Guggenheim's collection on public view in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice since 1951
A window grille at Peggy Guggenheim's house in Venice, where her collection of art has been on public view since 1951, including Italian Futurists and American modernists in the genres of Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, as well as sculptures. In addition, the masterpieces of the Hannelore and
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The mass-produced portrait of Princess Victoria, the future Queen Victoria, aged 4, even bears a facsimile of the princess's childish signature, VICTORIA
Art · Moscow · Museums
Viktor Vasnetsov's 1918 painting in the artist's house museum in Moscow
The Battle of Dobrynya Nikitich with the Seven-Headed Zmey Gorynych. Viktor Vasnetsov, 1918. The painting is in the Vasnetsov House Museum in Moscow.
Art · Society · People
Van Meegeren sold a forged Vermeer to Göring and confessed to the forgery in 1947
Henricus Antonius van Meegeren is regarded as one of the most ingenious art forgers of the twentieth century. For a long time, van Meegeren's fakes were esteemed in the art world as very nearly the finest examples of the work of such seventeenth-century painters as Johannes Vermeer
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