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John Everett Millais, The Princes in the Tower, 1878. The two princes who vanished without trace from their confinement in the Tower made an impression even on Shakespeare. He told the story of Edward V and his younger brother Richard in the history play "Richard III". Edward V
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I like how folk motifs are appearing in art once more. Works by Anna Samoylova from the series “Kuda det' volyu devich'yu” [“What to Do with a Maiden's Freedom”]. I do hope the Abramtsevo of the third millennium is not long in coming
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While you were making a discovery, Vermeer managed to paint two pictures. The pictures are called The Astronomer and The Geographer; they were painted in 1668-1669, and they show one and the same man in one and the same interior, but with different attributes. The Astronomer is in the
Coming Up · Faith · Art
Christ's head in "Man of Sorrows", attributed to the late Botticelli, is encircled by a halo of angels bearing the instruments of the Passion. The Cross is planted right on the crown of his head. This painting, attributed in recent times as a work by Botticelli,
Art · London · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
And at Nika Neyolova's Show at the Voznesensky Centre the Parquet Has Gone Up in Arms. The first solo exhibition of the London-based artist of Russian origin Nika Neyolova, [Ъ] [Ы] [Ь], has opened in Moscow, curated by graduates of that very Garage and Higher School of
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · Rome
A fresco in one of the Raphael Rooms on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The fresco of the 1580s in the Hall of Constantine, by Tommaso Laureti, is called the Triumph of Christianity and shows the Crucifix rising on a pedestal above a shattered statue
Faith · The East · Art · Museums
According to legend, one of the apostles, Bartholomew, was flayed alive and then beheaded. Bartholomew preached in Lesser India and in the Caucasus. In the Orthodox tradition he is held to have suffered martyrdom on the site of the modern city of Baku. In the 1480s di Giovanni was the
Coming Up · Aristocracy · Art · Museums
The exhibition “The French Taste of the Princes Yusupov” at the New Jerusalem Museum offers a rare opportunity to trace the history of French painting as assembled by a single collector, Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov (1750-1831), Director of the Armoury Chamber. The Yusupov collection is famous the world over,
Aristocracy · Art · Books · Museums · People
In the late 1790s the celebrated Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun worked in Russia, painting august portraits and persons of the very highest rank, such as the last King of Poland; she devoted a separate part of her memoirs to the Russian period, and it has been published in Russian. The
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Yesterday a very beautiful exhibition by the artist Katya Shcheglova, also known in the role of an actress with a rather sizeable filmography, opened at the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane. As a production designer, Katya was nominated for the Golden Mask, and she has now prepared a
Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Paris
I have a great many complaints about the municipal improvement of Paris; my heart aches at the antics of the luckless Anne Hidalgo. Versailles, by contrast, as a near and respected province, has been very fortunate, both in the status quo of its historic precincts and in the preservation of