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Repin's paintings “Go After Me, Satan” and the dispute over translating a line from Matthew's Gospel
Ilya Repin has several paintings titled “Get thee behind me, Satan”. In them, a hideous figure of the devil stands behind Jesus. The words are a disputed quotation from chapter 4 of the Gospel of Matthew: some maintain that the Greek and Church Slavonic texts say “go (follow) behind me”
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Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510
Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510. The Judgement of Paris, detail. Édouard Manet, 1863. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. Raimondi was known as Raphael's official engraver, and here he reproduces a lost work of the master. In due course the arrangement of the figures in this mise-en-scène would
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Oskar Kokoschka, Theseus and Antiope
Oskar Kokoschka, Theseus and Antiope. Or the old guard of society ladies against the Instagrammers
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Temperantia, allegory of virtue as a nude woman with a jug and a glass
Temperantia. Remember the name. Strange as it may seem, the goddess of virtue is often depicted as a nude female figure pouring liquid into a glass.
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Mores
The Grand Portrait of the Dauphins of France with the Marquise de Lansac
The grand portrait of the Dauphins of France with the Marquise de Lansac. In 1638 Cardinal Richelieu filled every court office with his own creatures, and installed a relative of his as governess to the future king and the Duke of Orléans. The elderly woman beside the little boys is
NB! · Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies
The five-year-old Dauphin of France, Louis, the future Louis XIV, and his three-year-old younger brother Philippe of Orléans, together with the sweetest curly-haired little Bolognese
Aristocracy · Faith · Art · Heritage
Ligier Richier's tomb of René de Chalon as a decaying skeleton in Bar-le-Duc
Perhaps one of the most extravagant monuments of the French Renaissance: the tomb of René de Chalon, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland, who died in 1544. It is not entirely clear whether the 25-year-old René himself left instructions for a rotting tomb to be
Aristocracy · Art · Museums · Mores · People
Pauline Bonaparte as Venus in the sculptural portrait by Antonio Canova
The international campaign opens with a day of women in world culture. I propose that we recall Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's favourite sister, whose famous sculptural portrait is considered one of the masterpieces of Antonio Canova. The aristocrat Camillo Borghese commissioned the work as a wedding gift for his
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All that this splendour lacks is Jared Leto and Perseus in a Phrygian cap with the head of Medusa
NB! · Art · Museums · New York · Pop Culture · Humour
Jennifer Lopez and the lid of an alabaster jar in the form of a royal woman's head in a Nubian-style wig, reign of Akhenaten, 1340 BC, Metropolitan Museum
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