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The Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, home to works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Claude (Gellée) and Van Dyck, will show canvases by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few women artists of her time to win renown

The Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, home to works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Claude (Gellée) and Van Dyck, will show canvases by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few women artists of her time to win renown. The Italian painter enjoyed the patronage of Charles I,

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Michelangelo's Torment of Saint Anthony looks as though the song from the cartoon "Three Bogatyrs" is playing: "Carried off, oh, carried off, carried off somewhere I've been"

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Such a hairstyle is only found on marble busts of the 2nd century AD, or do you suppose the effect of thick locks can be achieved simply by not washing one's hair for a few weeks?

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Yesterday the group exhibition Dreamcast opened at the Lazy Mike gallery

Yesterday the group exhibition Dreamcast opened at the Lazy Mike gallery. Attention was drawn by the sculptures of Nadya Likhogrud, which, incidentally, have risen sharply in price this year, and by the works of Alexandr Krylov, these three in black frames being acrylic on metal. But on the whole I

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Louis XII's valet de chambre Pierre Sala gives his heart to a daisy in token of his love for Marguerite Buillou

Louis XII's valet de chambre Pierre Sala gives his heart to a daisy in token of his love for Marguerite Buillou. One wonders how he survived such an operation at all.

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Parshchikov's Suspence series and snowmen at the Just a Shot Away exhibition in the Alina Pinskaya Gallery

Those who are certainly not feeling the cold are Parshchikov's snowmen. Incidentally, this is one of three staged shots at the exhibition Just a Shot Away at the Alina Pinsky Gallery. The curated selection of around 40 works consists mainly of the Suspence series and conveys a mood

Gold diadem with two gazelle heads and round rosettes inlaid in blue and red, shown against a dark background.

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Diadem of one of the wives of Thutmose III with gazelle heads and rosettes

Diadem of one of the wives of Thutmose III. Style 👌🏼

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Maryland Historical Society documents reveal the identity of portraitist Joshua Johnson

What do you make of these portraits? Little girls with improbably large butterflies. What is that, by the way, an Atlas moth? Such is the work of Joshua Johnson, the first successful Black American portraitist. Well, successful, and Black... Until the 1990s the identity of the author of at least

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Do Not Climb: It Will Kill You!

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1881

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After the first Impressionist exhibition, a journalist from Le Figaro wrote that the paintings of Monet, Renoir, Morisot and Sisley made him think of a monkey to whom the public ought to present a basket of flowers

Evidently, this was an allusion to Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps's painting "The Monkey Painter" of 1833. Nearly 150 years have passed since that exhibition, and with every private view new talented primates remain in the shadow of their many masterpieces. It must be said, though, that the

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The Hermitage presents the exhibition “Beauty and Style” on the history of fashion photography

Why does everything most beautiful happen just before New Year? The exhibition “Beauty and Style. A History of Fashion Photography. From the Collection of the Still Art Foundation” at the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Hermitage Museum. It presents the photographers’ own prints by Erwin Blumenfeld, Horst P.

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Garage to host exhibitions of Masterkova, Imhof, Ismailova and Marten

The Garage Museum's Exhibition Plans for 2022 Do, Indeed, Make the Coming Year a Female One. In March a retrospective of Lydia Masterkova (1927–2008) will open, also showing works by Yefrosinya Yermilova-Platova and Eva Levina-Rozengolts. In the photograph by Igor Palmin: Masterkova during preparations for