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Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite in the “Iliad” and Ingres’s Sketch in a Basel Museum

Дочь Зевсова! брось ты войну и кровавую битву; Не довольно ли, если прельщаешь ты слабых супругов? Страшно, ах, страшно опять возвращаться тебе на сраженья. Или, быть может, захочешь еще — и содрогнешься при мысли: Всякий раз, как пойдешь, увидишь то место, где рана Тяжкая в длань проницала тебе от руки Диомеда!

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Matryona Rasputina, Newton's forecast, Notre-Dame's bells and other topics in the digest

I have put together a digest of the most interesting posts that appeared on the channel in September:. 📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin 📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton 📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution

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Poseidon on the Throne

The German-Austrian painter Heinrich Friedrich Füger, late eighteenth century

NB! · Art · Museums · Humour

A Happy Coincidence

A happy coincidence. A project by the French photographer Stéphane Dréchan about people in museums and their looks that match works of art

Engraving of a crowned woman in a mantle holding an orb and sceptre, with a plumed helmet and armour beside her and the caption “L'Evrope”.

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Allegory of Europe in an engraving by Gilles Rousselet, late 17th century

Allegories of Europe and Asia. Engraving by Gilles Rousselet, late seventeenth century

Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris

Picasso Museum in Paris to be renovated from 2028 to 2030 at a cost of 50 million euros

Picasso Museum in Paris Announces Major Redevelopment by 2030. The Picasso Museum in Paris, which holds the largest collection of the artist's work in the world, with more than 5,000 works and 200,000 archival items, is preparing for a major redevelopment. The plans include a new

Two marionettes on museum plinths: a figure in a white costume with green trim, a chef-style cap and a dark mask, and a lady in an embroidered wide gown and a grey wig.

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Eighteenth-century Venetian marionettes from the collection of Marchesa Luisa Casati

They Rather Overdid It with This Fellow. Eighteenth-century Venetian marionettes from the collection of the Marchesa Luisa Casati

Art · Society · Paris

Artnet analysts compare auction art sales across countries for the first half of 2025

Against a backdrop of a 16.5% decline in global sales, the smallest fall was recorded in the United States, where sales totalled 2.2 billion dollars, only 1% lower than in the same period of 2024. China comes second after the United States, where sales fell by 26% compared

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The Beautiful Frescoes of Mikhail Nesterov in the Church of Alexander Nevsky at Abastumani in Georgia

The beautiful frescoes of Mikhail Nesterov in the Church of Alexander Nevsky at Abastumani in Georgia. This is a unique case: the entire interior of the church was painted in fresco by Nesterov himself, without the help of other artists: 56 compositions in 8 years. Nesterov's biography in

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The Wilton Diptych of the late 14th century with Richard II in the National Gallery, London

Richard II Presented to the Virgin and Child by His Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund. otherwise known as the Wilton Diptych, made of two small panels joined by hinges and painted on both sides. On the front, at left, we see the young King Richard

Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

A drawing by the Greek artist Alekos Fassianos recalled Anna Romanova's exhibition "Argonauts of the Underground" at the Voznesensky Centre, with its linear graphic art of the 1950s and 60s, featuring works by Soosteri, Sobolev, Yakovlev, Sidur, Matisse a

A drawing by the Greek artist Alekos Fassianos recalled Anna Romanova's exhibition "Argonauts of the Underground" at the Voznesensky Centre, with its linear graphic art of the 1950s and 60s, featuring works by Soosteri, Sobolev, Yakovlev, Sidur, Matisse and Picasso. The exhibition was three years ago,

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Babylonian Prefab

Babylonian Prefab. Ivan Ponivanov, 2024