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I send you your forebear with inkwells, which open, and in opening I discover that he was a man à double vue (clear-sighted) Inkwell with a figurine of a little blackamoor: Russian work of the 1830s, collection of the Pushkin Museum-Apartment. Beside the figure of the youth stand
Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Merry Christmas! Heavenly grace, happiness and the light of the Star of Bethlehem to you all! Always strive towards the perfection of the Lord, and remember that there is no Saviour but Christ! Ilya Repin, The Nativity of Christ, 1890. State Tretyakov Gallery
Faith · Art · Mores · Humour
No more for this one! In fact, they will pour him another. This Flemish painting, connected with the celebration of Epiphany on 6 January, captures a game that was popular in the seventeenth century. The man in the paper crown is the king of the evening, chosen by lot. For
Art · Moscow · Museums
Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky, gift of the artists to the Tretyakov Gallery
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In our regular "Where to Go" feature, a new selection of Moscow exhibitions worth visiting this week. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "The Road to the Avant-Garde: Dialogues of Artists in the Journal 'A-Ya'" at the Zotov Centre, until 18 January 📌 Closing soon:
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Faith · Art · Heritage · Paris
A Sword Stolen from the Statue of Joan of Arc in Front of the Church of Saint-Augustin in Paris. The shocking act of vandalism went roughly as follows: a man climbed onto the sculpture of Joan of Arc and damaged the statue of France's national heroine by
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Nature
Visited the exhibition "Arctic. Pole of Colour" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, devoted to images of the Far North in Russian art. The display is rather interesting: there are Arctic landscapes, motifs from the art of the peoples of the North, and local artists. Unusually, it also
Art · Museums · Heritage · Paris
In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre. The robbery was executed with an almost caricatured simplicity. A museum employee, Vincenzo Peruggia, hid in a storeroom until closing time. With the help of two accomplices, he removed the glass case from the
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage collection
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