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Van Haarlem combines two episodes of the myth of Cadmus and the dragon in one painting

The Companions of Cadmus Devoured by the Dragon, Cornelis van Haarlem, 1588. The Greek myth of Cadmus, who came to Boeotia to found the city of Thebes, tells how the companions of Cadmus were slain by an enormous dragon that guarded the sacred spring of Ares. The moment when the

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Simon Marmion’s Miniatures for the “Visions of Tondal”, Made for Margaret of York around 1470

Miniatures from the "Visions of Tundale" (The Visions of the Knight Tondal), a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript created by Simon Marmion around 1470 for Margaret of York, wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. This twelfth-century Irish text tells of a knight named Tondal (Tundale), who

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Paul Poiret's wire turban and the turn-of-the-century fashion for fearing electricity

Incredible, but this feathered ornament by Paul Poiret is in fact made of the finest metal wire. The curator of the Poiret retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs said that for the whole team this extraordinary headdress came as a discovery. But I recalled the amusing fashion of the

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Exhibitions of Plastov, Filatov and Korovin, art of Kazakhstan and the Thaw in October

A regular round-up of current exhibitions in Moscow: where to go. The final week of the exhibition “Arkady Plastov. Graphic Works. 1930s” at the Open Club gallery: until 14 October 7 October: opening of the exhibition “Masterpieces of Kazakhstan Art” at the New Tretyakov Gallery: until 23 November The

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Mr Bean Remains One of the Most Outstanding Artists of Our Time

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A memorial to the victims of abuse within the Church in the Cathedral of the French Diocese of Meaux

Not the most distinguished work of art, but a worthy message

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Manet's “Winter Garden”, bought for Berlin in 1896 and later stored in a salt mine

American soldiers with Édouard Manet's "In the Conservatory", removed from Berlin and kept with other masterpieces in a salt mine at Merkers-Kieselbach in Germany. In the end the painting stayed in Germany, and it is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. The portrait of Manet&

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WJRO report says up to 100,000 works from Jewish families may be held in US museums

Up to 100,000 Works of Art Confiscated by the Nazis May Be in US Museums. A great many works of art seized and stolen by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 have still not been returned to their rightful owners and their heirs. According to a new report by

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If You Can't Beat the Potholes, at Least Decorate Them

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The Fall of Icarus

The Fall of Icarus. Rodin

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Image of a Guardian Angel from a Book of Hours of the early sixteenth century, from the workshop of Simon Bening

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