Art · Moscow · Humour
How to Tell That You Are Looking at a Sculpture by Alexander Burganov
📌 A column, or the capital of a column, is present 📌 There is a human hand 📌 In place of a head, some object or other
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Faith · Art · Books
The Beast of Revelation in Giusto de' Menabuoi's fresco in the Padua Baptistery
I saw a beast rising out of the sea. He has ten horns and seven heads; on his horns are ten crowns, and on his heads blasphemous names. The beast I saw was like a leopard, but his feet are those of a bear, and his mouth a lion'
Art · Museums
Vessel of rock crystal and gilded silver, with enamel and rubies
Vessel of rock crystal and gilded silver, with enamel and rubies. Work of Dionisio Miseroni, circa 1655. The Miseroni family workshop was founded in 1588 in Prague, under Emperor Rudolf II. Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
NB! · Art · Observations
A cup of water and a pink flower in a painting by Francisco de Zurbarán
Good morning from Francisco de Zurbarán. Let us begin the day quietly, with thoughts as plain as a mug of water and a mood like a tender pink flower
The East · Art · Museums
The Maharaja of Indore necklace with Colombian emeralds in the Smithsonian collection
The so-called Necklace of the Spanish Inquisition. The name was coined for advertising purposes by the jeweller Harry Winston, who also claimed that this piece, made of Colombian diamonds and emeralds, had belonged to the Spanish royal family. It was acquired by the Maharaja of Indore and subsequently took
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome
Cupid and Psyche, 4th century AD, Ostia Antica
Archive · Art
A Greek Villager Kills a German Soldier with a Stone
"The Battle of Crete", artist Petros Vlachakis
Art · Humour
Ganymede did not put up much of a struggle against abduction by Zeus
Peter Paul Rubens
NB! · Art
Pears, Paul Cézanne, 1879
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris · People · Pop Culture · Reportage
Paul Poiret as an artist and creator of fashion's visual world at an exhibition in Paris
As promised, I return to my report on this season's fashion exhibitions in Paris. The large retrospective of the work of Paul Poiret will interest not only lovers of the history of costume, but indeed anyone enthralled by fashion and style. The exhibition at the Musée des Arts
Art · Ethnography
The Serpent King
A drawing by Valery Slauk, Professor at the Belarusian Academy of Arts
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, Rogier van der Weyden, 1440
One of the copies of this work is in the Hermitage