NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Beloved Jeanne Samary, Beloved Renoir, Beloved Pushkin Museum

NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages

At the opening of the grand exhibition of the collection of Mikhail and Ivan Morozov, "Brother Ivan", at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: Piotrovsky, Golikova, Shvydkoy, Tregulova, Loshak, Ernst

Painting of churning blue-green water in front of old brick and wooden buildings with a water wheel.

NB! · Art · Nature

“The Water Mill”, a 1892 painting by the Norwegian artist Frits Thaulow

This is not nature grown pure, but the astonishingly realistic water of the Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow. The Watermill, 1892

Faith · Art · Humour

“We never meant to offend you!” “Think nothing of it: the arrows went clean through”

Detail of a figure of Saint Sebastian by the Italian Renaissance painter Mariotto Albertinelli, 1509-10.

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Telemachus Recognises Odysseus in the Presence of Athena

Telemachus recognises Odysseus in the presence of Athena. Lionel Royer, Musée de Tessé

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The Triumphal Entry of Alexander Nevsky into the City of Pskov after His Victory over the Germans

The Triumphal Entry of Alexander Nevsky into the City of Pskov after His Victory over the Germans. Grigory Ugryumov, late eighteenth century

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Weekend assignment: learning from the eighteenth-century Dutch draughtsman Johannes Merken how to react to an encounter with passive-aggressive yappers: we simply keep moving along in our elegant carriage, drawn by a charming little horse

Faith · Art · Madrid · Museums

Nicholas of Tolentino in a Painting by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz in the Prado Museum

Nicholas of Tolentino, 1601, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz. Collection of the Prado Museum. The Catholic saint Nicholas of Tolentino (1245-1305) was an Augustinian monk, renowned for his asceticism, and is depicted in the black Augustinian habit with a star on his breast. The bird standing on the dish

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Death and Life

Death and Life. Gustav Klimt. The painting exists in two versions, one of 1911 and a later one. The second version is shown in the photograph. It was created under the impression of the gathering storm of the First World War

Faith · Art · Museums

Alexey Korzukhin's 1876 painting “Before Confession” in the Tver Gallery

Before Confession. Alexey Ivanovich Korzukhin, 1876, Tver Regional Picture Gallery. Korzukhin was one of the celebrated group of 14 rebellious top pupils of the Academy of Arts who refused to take part in the Academy's competition for the Grand Gold Medal, which would have given them six years

Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

One fine cruise morning I am reading, in the ship's saloon, the latest issue of the Louvre's magazine Grande Galerie, whose cover shows a splendid detail from the portrait of one of the greatest mystics of the Church, Saint Bonaventure, by the Spanish pai

One fine cruise morning I am reading, in the ship's saloon, the latest issue of the Louvre's magazine Grande Galerie, whose cover shows a splendid detail from the portrait of one of the greatest mystics of the Church, Saint Bonaventure, by the Spanish painter Zurbarán, from

Engraving of a woman in a cap and ruff changing a baby’s nappy in a room with a fireplace, baskets and a sleeping dog.

NB! · Art · Mores · Humour

Willem van de Passe’s 1624 engraving of a mother changing a baby’s nappy

Changing nappies has always been an equally agreeable pastime. Willem van de Passe, 1624