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Art must bring happiness and joy, or it is worth nothing. The Church of the Holy Trinity on the bank of the Oka, in the village of Bekhovo, was created in 1904–1906 by Vasily Polenov himself, who drew on the forms of Romanesque and Byzantine building and of the
The East · Art · Museums · Humour
"The Gates of Paradise" is an exceptionally rare pair of Indian spectacles of the seventeenth-century Mughal era, whose lenses are carved not from glass but from a single enormous emerald, probably weighing more than 300 carats in its uncut state
Coming Up · Art · Paris
Until the end of February the Paris Opera is staging a new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, sung in Russian, at the Palais Garnier. It is Ralph Fiennes's directorial debut in opera. The performances are enjoying enormous success. Le Monde praises the production for its theatrical
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Ekaterina Foundation on Kuznetsky Most: city centre, spacious bright halls, not a soul about, so why not go? Two exhibitions are currently running there, and I dropped in to have a look at Vilgeny Melnikov and Oleg Maslov with their walk, "The Garden Keeper". A pleasant, unassuming
Architecture · Art · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The monument to Pushkin by the sculptor Leopold Bernstam was erected in the town of Pushkin, at the intersection of Oktyabrsky Boulevard, Dvortsovaya Street and Peterburgskoye Highway, in July 1938. During the Great Patriotic War, when the town was occupied by German troops, who destroyed and damaged many structures of
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Watercolour by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, 1841 Alexei Stolypin was Mikhail Lermontov's first cousin once removed and a close friend. Alexei was the son of Arkady Alexeyevich Stolypin, Procurator-General of the Senate, who was the brother of Lermontov's grandmother. On completing the School of Guards Sub-
Art · Heritage · Society · Rome
Bernini's celebrated Roman sculpture "The Elephant and Obelisk" has been damaged again. The marble elephant, created in 1667 to a design by Bernini and executed by his pupil Ercole Ferrata, stands in the Piazza della Minerva beside the Pantheon. The elephant, bearing an ancient Egyptian obelisk
Faith · Art · Education
The answer, on a Dutch engraving of the early seventeenth century: Winged, like a fallen angel, and decked out in an academic gown, he is goaded on by curiosity, while flattery holds up to him an ornate mirror adorned with feathers, that he may contemplate himself. And not a single
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Nikolai Ge
Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose IV, c. 1400 BC.
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Guido Reni, 1599
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