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The Milanese ruler of the Torriani family had brought several Lombard cities under his sway from 1265, but in January 1277 he was defeated in battle by the hostile forces of the Visconti. Napoleone and his relatives were taken prisoner by Archbishop Ottone Visconti. Confined in an iron cage hung
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An interesting episode from the early history of copyright is connected with these frescoes of the Montauto Chapel, or Chapel of San Girolamo, painted in the 1560s by the young artist Alessandro Allori. Having completed the decoration, Allori confessed that he had borrowed the images for it from Michelangelo, who
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Iceland's Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale will present "Pocket Universe", a multidisciplinary project by the artist, poet and film director Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir. At the centre of the exhibition is a video work about a being called Creature Zero, who sets off in search of
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📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "Marc Chagall. The Joy of Earthly Gravity" at the Pushkin Museum, until 15 March 📌 Ivan Nenashev's exhibition "The Mind of Flowers" at the a—s—t—r—a gallery, until 9 April 📌 An exhibition of African photographers, "Dandies. A
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I do not regret you, years of my spring, Spent in dreams of vain love, I do not regret you, O mysteries of nights, Sung by a voluptuous pipe, I do not regret you, faithless friends, Garlands of feasts and cups passed round — I do not regret you, young betrayers,
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Born on 12 October 1969 in Leningrad. Graduated from a school of literature and history and from an art school in 1986. From 1987 to 1989 served in the Soviet Army at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On returning from the army he began performing as a soloist in Sergey Kuryokhin’s
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The monument is the work of the sculptor Vladimir Ivanov It was in fact put up as long ago as October 2025, but I somehow failed to look about me when I walked past TASS
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Every few years, news of yet another newly discovered work by Michelangelo sweeps the world's press. Headlines shriek of sensation, specialists wince, time passes, and nobody remembers what all the fuss was about. William Wallace, the foremost living authority on the great Florentine, has calculated that since 2000
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Paris auction house Bonhams to offer Salvador Dalí's largest painting, or rather a theatre backdrop measuring 20 by 30 metres. Dalí created the backdrop for the ballet Bacchanale, a surrealist production of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dalí also wrote the libretto and designed some of the
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Nikolai Pomyalovsky. Illustration: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, "At the Samovar", 1927
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📌 Closing soon: the Vladimir Nemukhin retrospective "Playing at Abstraction" at the New Tretyakov Gallery, until 15 March 📌 3 March: opening of the report exhibition by the art group PPSS at HSE ART GALLERY in the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, until 7 April 📌 5 March: opening of the