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The Miracle of Saint Justus, Peter Paul Rubens, 1629
A youth beheaded for his faith in Christ rose after the execution, picked up his own head and walked to the place of his future burial
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Traditionally, a calendar of Moscow's exhibition events:
📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Not Only Bruegel. Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Prints from the Collections of Moscow and Saint Petersburg” at the Pushkin Museum, until 9 November 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Masterpieces of Kazakhstan's Art” at the New Tretyakov Gallery, until 23 November 📌 The exhibition “Fundamental Lexicon. Contemporary Art
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Italian Beauty by Ferdinando Scianna
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Boris Zabirokhin, Honoured Artist of Russia, and his 1993 work “Oboroten”
The Werewolf. Honoured Artist of Russia Boris Zabirokhin
Faith · Art · Mores
The Orthodox All Saints' Day and Halloween have no cultural link and fall at different times
All Saints' Day, Vasily Kandinsky, 1911. Despite the similarity of name, the Orthodox feast glorifying All Saints, and sanctity itself, has no cultural kinship with Halloween, which is also styled All Saints' Day. On All Saints' Day it is of course the custom to remember in prayer
Architecture · Faith · Art · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris · Rome
Review of the month from Serebrennikov's “Hamlet” to the robberies of French museums
For those who skipped a great many lessons, let me remind you that we began October with an introductory course in alchemy, and then spoke. 📌 about works of art stolen by the Nazis 📌 about the fate of Pompeii after the eruption of Vesuvius 📌 about why one should not refuse Donald
Art · Books · Observations · Humour
When There Are No Free Taxis Nearby and You Still Have to Get to Work
After galloping with me for half a day, she left me beside a forest The eighteenth-century traveller has saddled up the heavily feathered future: he dreamed of wings, but got an ostrich. The engraving from the book Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques turns out to depict an
Art · Humour
Jamie Wyeth's 1980 painting of a small dog in a wicker pram
Aren't you a darling ☺️. A very small dog. Jamie Wyeth, 1980
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A Friday evening to all, as good as the one enjoyed by Burroughs and Mr. Peanut
In 1974, one of the most surreal events in the history of modern art took place in Vancouver, when Mr. Peanut, an anthropomorphic groundnut in a top hat and monocle, stood for mayor of the city. Behind this persona stood the artist Vincent Trasov, a member of the art group
Art · Heritage · Humour
Picasso’s “Still Life with Guitar” found with a concierge in Granada after 18 days
The Concierge Who Found the Missing Picasso. A painting by Pablo Picasso, reported missing in Granada on 6 October, has turned up in the possession of a hapless concierge. Among the works of art that arrived for an exhibition, Pablo Picasso's "Still Life with Guitar" of
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