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Lenin on the Rampage
The Croatian artist Jozo Kljaković, 1924
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Illustration “Send-Briefe” from a work by Jacob Boehme, known to Russian Freemasons
In essence, what we have before us is an eighteenth-century depiction of the interaction between non-human intelligence, or superintelligence, and mortal men. An illustration from Jakob Böhme, the German mystical and theosophical symbolist of the seventeenth century, well known to the Russian Freemasons
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Exhibition of 80 works on collecting and Jung's shadow runs until 12 October
On 31 August the Anna Nova gallery in Saint Petersburg will open "Trauma and Rebirth", a large-scale exhibition from the contemporary art collection of the patron Zoya Galeyeva. The concept of the exhibition rests on the psychoanalytic theory of Carl Gustav Jung and his notion of the
Architecture · Faith · Art
Carved and gilded altar in the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Malmö
Behind the most sumptuous Baroque carving lie the most ordinary painted boards. The altarpiece of St Peter's Church in Malmö
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"Two Crowns", 1900, Sir Frank Dicksee
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When the Day of Pentecost Had Come, They Were All Together in One Place
When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as
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Boethius beholds in a magic mirror how Lady Philosophy consoles and heals him, sick and feeble as he is, which I wish for you too
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Giorgione's Judith and Vladimir Petrovich Kozin's Judith
Photograph from the series "Domestic History of ISKVA. Photo Performance", 1999 In a kitchen, beside the stove, a man lies on his back; above him stands a woman, her left foot planted on the man's head. In her left hand is a white stick. Museum "
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once
Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once. The picture has been ascribed to Domenico Mancini and to Domenico
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Madonna and Child in a Landscape and Judith in Room 217 of the Great Hermitage
Works by Giorgione that can be seen in the Hermitage:. 📌 Madonna and Child in a Landscape, circa 1503. Acquired in 1817 from the Creighton collection in Saint Petersburg. On display in Room 217 of the Large Hermitage. One of the painter's early works 📌 Judith, 1504. Acquired in 1772
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Vasari's biography of Giorgione, his date of death and the disputed self-portraits
Labouring for the glory of himself and his fatherland, and forever moving in society to divert his many friends with music, he fell in love with a certain lady, and the two of them took very great delight in their love. But it so happened that in 1511 she caught
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“The Tempest” by Giorgione, 1507-1508, regarded as the first landscape in the history of painting
A Small Landscape on Canvas with a Storm, a Gypsy Woman and a Soldier. Or, to be more precise, Giorgione's "The Tempest", 1507-1508. In essence, what we have before us is the first landscape in the history of painting. Yes, yes, exactly so. Giorgione'