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NB! · Art · Society · Paris · Humour
The bottom of the allegory of Abundance from the sculptural group Triumph of the Republic (1879–99) by the Louvre curator Jules Dalou is plastered with leaflets of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the alliance of France's left-wing forces, who has thus expre
NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Vrubel at the Russian Museum, Benois Wing
Vrubel at the Russian Museum, Benois Wing. I don't know, am I the only one with questions about the colour scheme of the room?
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Block statues of Egypt's Middle Kingdom and two explanations for their popularity
The simplest block-shaped Egyptian sculptures of the Middle Kingdom are found in burials and capture the image of the deceased. They are usually furnished with an inscription containing particulars of the departed. The sculptures themselves are easy to remember if you have acquaintances whose photos show a handsome head
NB! · Art · Madrid · Museums · Observations
As a movement, Impressionism arose at the end of the nineteenth century, but one need only look at the spinning wheel in Velázquez's Las Hilanderas, painted around 1657, to see an example of liberation from pure geometrical form already in seventeenth-cen
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
The American electric toaster of 1929 seems to ask at what point industrial design took a wrong turning
NB! · Art · Humour
Hedgehog with a cello in a painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini
Hedgehog playing the cello. By the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini
NB! · Faith · Art · Moscow · Observations
Look What a Charming Jesus!
Look what a charming Jesus! My new favourite piece of street art in Moscow, at 6 Tverskaya. By Pixelboy 💟
NB! · Art · Cinema · Pop Culture
What Does the USSR of the Late 1980s Have in Common with (Unexpectedly!) French Painting?
What does the USSR of the late 1980s have in common with (unexpectedly!) French painting? The colour palette: paintings by Henri Matisse and André Derain formed the basis of the colour palette of the Kinopoisk series “Patient Zero”. It turns out that the patterns from Matisse’s canvases fit the
NB! · Archive · Art · Museums · Heritage · Paris
The Empty Space Where the Mona Lisa Hung After Da Vinci's Painting Was Stolen from the Louvre in 1911
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Motherland, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1883
Archaeology · Art · Museums · New York
Gold Hellenistic Armlets of the 2nd Century BC from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Hellenistic armlets of the 2nd century BC from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The armlets represent a male and a female figure, a triton and a tritoness, each holding a small winged Eros in their hands. Behind the heads of the tritons are hoops, through which