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Etruscan funerary urn of the 4th century BC and the loss of its 19th-century additions

Etruscan Art: Enigmatic and Alluring. In this case we are dealing with a monument described in the books: a funerary urn of the early 4th century BC bearing the image of the spirit of the deceased and of a guardian spirit. As you can see, the present state of the

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The British painter Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) is known as a master of genre scenes from the realm of science and natural knowledge that look as though they were sacred subjects

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"What Is This, Madame?" "It Is Called 'Art'"

Art · Moscow · Museums

The Magnificent Léon Bakst from the Russian Museum Collection at the GES-2 Exhibition

One of the key works of the Silver Age artist Léon Bakst, a meditation on the fate of the classical heritage amid the social and political catastrophes of the early twentieth century. Painted after the Russo-Japanese War and the revolution of 1905-1907, the picture gave expression to the

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I wrote that I was impressed to hear Wagner performed by Currentzis's orchestra; a music critic replied: a mediocre performance of a mediocre arrangement

I recommended Smirnov von Rauch's book "The Board of Dionysius" to my book club, and my fellow members say: a dreadful book, Alexandr, why did you choose it? I find no answers; such, it seems, is my taste 😭 The photograph shows a portrait of Pushkin by

Art · Museums · Paris

Marlene Dumas becomes the first living woman artist whose works have been acquired for the Louvre's collection

Marlene Dumas has become the first contemporary woman artist whose works have been acquired for the collection of the Louvre. The polyptych, which is to hang at the entrance to the new "Pavilion of the Five Continents", is reported to have cost the museum 470,000 euros. The

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A new selection of Moscow's main exhibition events

📌 16 December: opening of the exhibition "Beautiful Monsters", devoted to exotic animals in the work of European artists, at the Pushkin Museum, until 1 March 📌 18 December: opening of the exhibition "Legacy of an Era. Mikhail Savitsky" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, until 1

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Nikolay Aseyev's poem on money, power, fame and the community of people

People still cling to money, as people clung to crosses in the days of the remote Kerzhenets, but it will not last for ever. People still reach for power, not knowing its measure or its price, but this will not endure for long: other times will come. People still chase

Line drawing of two lions flanking a column at the Mycenae citadel gate, with a scale bar up to 1 metre.

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Lions of the Mycenae Citadel's Main Gate, 13th Century BC, Looked Backward and Had Heads of Another Material

It turns out that the famous lions over the main gate of the Mycenaean citadel, dated to the mid-13th century BC, were in fact looking backwards, not at one another. It is also thought that the lions' heads, which have not survived, were made of a different material,

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The Decembrists

Semyon Levenkov, 1950s

Faith · Art · Museums · Paris

Saint Apollonia is considered the patron saint of dentists and of those with toothache; she is depicted holding pincers with an extracted tooth

Saint Apollonia, Francisco de Zurbarán, 1636-40. Louvre collection. The painting can be seen in the Spanish painting gallery

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