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Posters on the fight against coronavirus by contemporary Spanish illustrators, inspired by the graphic legacy of the Civil War. Viva la sanidad publica!
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The delicate, slender, tender and sensual hands of Mary Magdalene. Carlo Crivelli, 1480
NB! · Aristocracy · Art · Museums · People · Saint Petersburg
The beauty Elizaveta Borisovna Shakhovskaya. One of her portraits is held in the Louvre, and two more in the Hermitage: this one, by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, and a second, a miniature by Augustin Ritt.
Art · London · Mores · Humour
The Witch-king of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgûl: no mortal man can kill me! (falls upon the dog, jabs the umbrella into its belly) Dandy in a neck corset: oh heck A sketch of the clash of two styles, or fashion as an obstacle to social distancing London, April
Art · Books · Observations · Humour
Who better than Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin, founder of the Moscow school of painting, to understand the misery of those self-isolating in a flat without a balcony. The woman at the window in this 1841 picture is the Tambov treasurer's wife of Lermontov's poem of the
Faith · Art · Humour
Psst, coming out? Saint Anthony seems to be coming out. Hieronymus Bosch, 1501
Art · Observations
Mortal Things. By the English Pre-Raphaelite artist Evelyn De Morgan, 1897. One might think that this is the Mother of God spreading her starry heavenly veil over our world; the symbols, at any rate, point that way. But the artist's allegory is that the angel of death,
Art · Mores · Nature · Humour
During the quarantine nature was so purified that rare and endemic birds returned to the city gardens, and narwhals and mermaids to the canals of Venice. An illustration of 1790 to a charming poem by the French poet Charles Borde on the male member
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Knitting Socks. 1912. Work by the Australian artist Grace Cossington Smith
Almaty · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage · People
Today Itkind's sculptures are displayed in many museums around the world and held in private collections, while a considerable part of the master's legacy is in Kazakhstan, where the most productive decades of his life were spent. Unfortunately, for a time some of the wooden sculptures
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I have been fortunate to hear about Itkind from people who were his friends, who knew him and his family, and who could shed light on the misconceptions largely introduced into circulation by a popular sketch by the journalist Eduard Topol, who met Itkind. The brief biography of the truly
Almaty · Art · People
The Jew who died twice. The rabbi who became an artist. The eccentric old man, a half-wild sorcerer-elder who lived on roots and gathered old tree stumps, dwelling in a dugout on the outskirts of Alma-Ata. The best-known Soviet sculptor of the 1930s, who vanished into