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Today: a lecture on Dürer by Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Department of Western European Prints at the Hermitage. Do join in, if you like: https://likadlugach.timepad.ru/event/1339706/ He gave a splendid lecture on Bruegel earlier, which I ought to have shared as well. But that is
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In the 1790s, campaigns arise in England against the currents blowing in from France, alarming for their backdrop of bloody reprisals and the overthrow of a monarchy. A propaganda broadsheet sets two allegories of Liberty side by side: Britannia, with the scales of justice, Magna Carta under the protection of
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🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle. All in all, I still have but one question for this charming and modest queen, in every respect: who styles you, my
NB! · Art · London · Observations · Mores · Humour
The picture is, of course, about fashionable parasols in London in the 1790s, but the hats here are no less remarkable. I should like to self-isolate beneath an exceedingly wide-brimmed hat in the style of a galero
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In the 1950s it was decided to erect a monument to Stalin in Letná Park, on a viewing platform overlooking Prague, timed to mark the tenth anniversary of the city's liberation from the fascists by Soviet troops. But the sculptors were in no hurry to take part in
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Quarantine lifted. Daniel Hopfer, 1500-1510
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Americans pulling the gilded equestrian statue of King George III from its marble pedestal after the reading of the Declaration of Independence on 6 July 1776 in Bowling Green Park, Manhattan. The lead statue was toppled at the second attempt, broke into pieces, and was melted down for bullets. The
The East · Art · Museums · Observations · Mores
Do you remember the porcelain decanter in the shape of a fish, with little fish-shaped glasses, found in so many Soviet interiors? We have such a fish at home too, inherited from my grandmother, and in two colour variations at that; it was mass-produced at the porcelain factory
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Self-Portrait of John Bellany with His Friend Alan Davie. 1985. Two famous Scottish artists with strange creatures of the seashore, somehow reminiscent of Roerich and Konenkov
Architecture · Art · Paris
In 2021 Christo Planned to Wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. https://theparnassian.com/stalo-izvestno-chto-grandioznyi-proekt-khudozhnika-khristo-iavasheva-po-upakovke-triumfalnoi-arki-v-parizhe-perenositsia-s-oseni-etogo-goda-na-2021/?single
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Rosary pendant with a crystal skull in a crown. 16th century. Probably connected with the Mexican cult of the dead. Metropolitan Museum