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Auguste Rodin’s sculpture “The Hand of God” of 1907 at the Metropolitan Museum
Auguste Rodin, The Hand of God, 1907. Metropolitan Museum of Art
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On 11 February Sotheby's Will Once Again Offer David Hockney's "Splash"
On 11 February Sotheby's will once again offer David Hockney's "Splash". The painting is expected to fetch as much as $39 million. In 2006 "Splash" was sold for £2.9 million. One of the three splashes is going under the hammer: there
Art · Monarchies · Museums
Golden bees as Napoleon's imperial emblem and the Bonaparte family arms
The portrait of Napoleon at the recently closed exhibition "Salon 1819" at the Girodet Museum in Montargis, France, is strewn with golden bees, the emblem Napoleon chose as his imperial sign. Of no small importance to Napoleon, of course, was the fact that golden bees resemble the golden
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Zeus: a boy is seduced by an eagle, a girl by a swan
Zeus: a boy is seduced by an eagle, a girl by a swan. The main thing is not to get them mixed up. Museum of Fine Arts, Lisbon
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Mores
The Getty Museum acquired a 6th century BC kouros that proved a probable forgery
Before the New Year, a gripping tale for you of the eighties, an ancient statue and the Getty collection. At the close of 1983 the art dealer Gianfranco Becchina approached the Getty Museum in California with an offer to sell it a superbly preserved marble statue of the 6th century
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Greek kouros statue of about the 6th century BC in the Getty Museum
Kouros. Greek sculpture, approximately 6th century BC, Getty Museum
Faith · Art · Observations · Humour
Sad faces and Balthazar's golden ship in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's “Adoration of the Magi”
In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Adoration of the Magi" everyone looks thoroughly miserable, though the occasion is, broadly speaking, a happy one: the birth of a saviour. And then there is Balthazar, the only guest who has brought a decent present: a golden ship with a
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
Umbrian Deposition of the thirteenth century in the Louvre and its likeness to Russian northern carving
The Deposition from the Cross, second quarter of the 13th century, Umbria, Louvre. The three-dimensional, life-size figures of polychrome poplar, willow and walnut wood recall the church sculpture of the Russian North.
Art · Madrid · Museums · Society · Nature
The Prado Museum and WWF show the effects of climate change in paintings by Velázquez and Goya
The Prado Museum and WWF have illustrated the consequences of climate change with great paintings from the museum's collection. Diego Velázquez's Philip IV is drowning, horse and all; Joachim Patinir's crossing to the underworld has run dry; Joaquín Sorolla's Children on the
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Hans Baldung's painting “Woman and Death”
There is nothing so terrible in such a difference in age. Hans Baldung, Woman and Death
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The abandoned city's treasure chamber in the 1942 “Jungle Book” as a model for cinema
One of the greatest treasure houses in world cinema: the secret chamber of riches in the abandoned city from the 1942 British-American adaptation of "The Jungle Book". The treasury is shown in two scenes. In the first, Mowgli finds himself in the deserted palace of a vanished
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