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At In Artibus, a second opening of Maxim Boxer's exhibition "A Collector's Dreams", which we viewed together at the very start of the lockdown

At In Artibus, a second opening of Maxim Boxer's exhibition "A Collector's Dreams", which we viewed together at the very start of the lockdown. A few works and accents have been added to this new reading. In short, welcome

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums

Yuri Annenkov exhibition “Revolution Behind the Door” at the Museum of Russian Impressionism, 1 July to 23 August

From 1 July to 23 August, the Museum of Russian Impressionism is holding an exhibition, "Yury Annenkov. Revolution at the Door". It is a rare chance to see in one place paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, the

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The King of Thule, hero of Goethe's poem of the king who kept to his dying day a golden goblet in memory of the beloved from whom he had parted for ever, vividly embodied by the brush of Pierre Jean van der Ouderaa, could not but have been an inspiration

Coming Up · Art · Education · Saint Petersburg

Online lecture by Ilya Doronchenkov of the European University on Diaghilev's failure in the West

At 19.30, join the online lecture by Ilya Doronchenkov, Professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg: “Diaghilev's Failure? The Wrong Road to the West”

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Ethnography

Since such fairy-tale goings-on are afoot, a reminder that from today you can visit the exhibition "The Russian Fairy Tale" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val

Since such fairy-tale goings-on are afoot, a reminder that from today you can visit the exhibition "The Russian Fairy Tale" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The display brings together classic works on fairy-tale subjects, contemporary art, sculpture and media: a veritable journey through

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Equal sums of squares of 10, 11, 12 and of 13, 14, and a note on the painting and Rachinsky

"The knowledge needed to solve this problem lies in the regularities governing the sum of squares of certain two-digit numbers, named after a celebrated Russian educator" 10²+11²+12²= 365 13²+14²= 365 Those whom the subject has intrigued will find an informative note about this painting,

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Bogdanov-Belsky’s 1895 painting “Oral Arithmetic” and Professor Rachinsky’s village school

Mental Arithmetic at Rachinsky's Village School, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, 1895. The problem on the blackboard, (10²+11²+12²+13²+14²)/365, World of engineering proposes to solve in one's head. I, to be honest, did not manage it at the first attempt: I tried to break

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Portrait of a Three-Year-Old Boy in a Ruffled Gorget, with a Large Hat, a Parrot and a Little Dog

Portrait of a three-year-old boy in a ruffled gorget, with a large hat, a parrot and a little dog. 1644. So small, and already weary of the conventions of this mortal world

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A Poster Against Appalling Electrification, 1900

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Louis XV and a scene after the battle in Horace Vernet’s “Battle of Fontenoy”

I adore this detail from The Battle of Fontenoy by Horace Vernet, painter, diplomat and popularizer of battle painting. It is generally held that the scene shows a father kissing his son after the battle. Though perhaps it is not a father at all. The young man, incidentally, holds in

Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies

Daughter, Élisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine, and mother, Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Princess of Orléans

Daughter, Élisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine, and mother, Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Princess of Orléans. Eighteenth century. An incredible likeness, an incredible authorial approach to the portrait. The portrait of Liselotte, as Her Highness the Princess of Orléans was known, was painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud. Her

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The Lely Venus from the Gonzaga collection to the English royal collection

The Lely Venus is a famous copy of Praxiteles' Venus, made in the 1st-2nd centuries. Rubens found the sculpture in the rich collection of the House of Gonzaga and showed it to the English king, Charles I, who fell in love with it and acquired it for his