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My favourite monument to Leo Tolstoy stands in the courtyard of his museum on Prechistenka

My favourite monument to Leo Tolstoy stands in the courtyard of his museum on Prechistenka. It is the work of Sergey Merkurov, who, incidentally, took the death mask of Lev Nikolayevich. The monument, completed in 1913, could not be erected in Moscow: the Black Hundreds threatened to blow it up.

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The Russo-Italian artist Paolo Troubetzkoy, Pavel Petrovich, not only created touching sculptures of animals, but was also a committed vegetarian

Architecture · Art · Observations

Real photographs by the artist known as Space Cowboy, not AI-generated images

All these works are real photographs, taken by an artist under the pseudonym Space Cowboy on planet Earth in our own day. Not AI generations, not drawings, but real photographs. I understand that most people are obliged to live cut off from beauty, but a single glance at these frames

Art · Moscow · Museums · Reportage

Marc Chagall exhibition “The Joy of Earthly Attraction” in the main building of the Pushkin Museum

The exhibition is called "Marc Chagall. The Joy of Earthly Gravity" and is held in the main building of the Pushkin Museum. Two halls and the atrium bring together both Chagall's best-known works and rare, little-known pieces such as portraits of members of his

Art · Books · Observations · Humour

Chagall had no memory at all of painting this work when a photograph of it was put in front of him

Chagall had no memory at all of painting this work when a photograph of it was put in front of him. He looked at it and thought: respectable people, they have an interest in the matter, I shan't disappoint them. He agreed, they say: it looks like me,

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Thanks to the Russian Museum for "The Red Jew"

Thanks to the Russian Museum for "The Red Jew". A Chagall exhibition has opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

Faith · Art · Museums

Saints Cosmas and Damian Healing Justinian

Saints Cosmas and Damian healing Justinian. An altarpiece scene by Fra Angelico. From the collection of the Museo di San Marco in Florence

Medieval miniature of three large wooden ships with masts and rigging near the shore, beside a stone tower with a red flag bearing a lion.

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English ships near the mouth of the Thames lie in wait for Flemish merchants, late 15th century

The English fleet near the mouth of the Thames, waiting for rich Flemish merchants in the hope of seizing their goods. Late 15th century

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I cannot say why, but for me Sergey Sharshun's self-portrait from the New Tretyakov collection is Harold, hiding his pain

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Drawings by Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin with scenes for Andrei Tarkovsky's film Solaris

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Five December exhibitions, from Soviet-era icons to Chagall and the Arctic

The customary round-up of exhibitions in Moscow's galleries and museums. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Icons of the Soviet Period” at the Izmailovo estate, until 22 December 📌 10 December: opening of the exhibition “George Cohen. Theory of Shadow” at the pop/off/art gallery, until 23 January 📌 Solo

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Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz masterfully creates a double memorial portrait of his late mother and father, depicting his father, himself an artist, painting a portrait of his mother

Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz masterfully creates a double memorial portrait of his late mother and father, depicting his father, himself an artist, painting a portrait of his mother. Both his parents look out at us from 1550. Collection of the Toledo Museum of Art