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Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the head of a young woman
Leonardo da Vinci. Head of a Young Woman
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…gleaming with the whiteness of her shoulders, the glossiness of her hair and diamonds, she passed between the men who stood aside <...> granting each the right to admire the beauty of her figure, her full shoulders, her bosom and back, very bare accordin
…gleaming with the whiteness of her shoulders, the glossiness of her hair and diamonds, she passed between the men who stood aside <...> granting each the right to admire the beauty of her figure, her full shoulders, her bosom and back, very bare according to the fashion of the
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Figures in Russian and Bashkir national costume
Figures in Russian and Bashkir national costume. From the Berlin dessert service, after models by Friedrich Elias Meyer. Prussia, Berlin, Royal Porcelain Manufactory, 1770-1772. Porcelain, overglaze painting, gilding Hermitage Collection
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Fashion exhibitions until January 2026, from Paul Poiret and Worth to Rick Owens and the Louvre
Tomorrow brings our customary roundup of new museum and gallery exhibitions in Moscow, but today I suggest you save a route through the fashion exhibitions now running in Paris. 📌 Paul Poiret, la mode est une fête. Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) - until 11 January 2026. A major retrospective of a
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Commode created by the decorator André Goult together with his brother-in-law Paul Poiret in 1935
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"The Handshake of Abraham Lincoln and Alexander II": a sculpture installed in the park before the Burganov House Museum on Sivtsev Vrazhek
Although this meeting never took place in reality, many note the similarity between these two rulers, and the former US Congressman James Symington called them "friends who were never destined to meet, but who were kindred spirits." The monument was created in 2011 and first shown at the
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Charlemagne's Throne in Aachen and Charlemagne Symbols at Napoleon's Coronation
Napoleon before the Throne of Charlemagne. Henri-Paul Motte, 1898. The throne of Charlemagne was set up in the 790s in the Palatine Chapel at Aachen. Until 1531 it served as the coronation throne of the King of the Romans and was used at thirty-one coronations. But Charlemagne was
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Gilded statue of Jupiter by Johann Jakob Vogelhund (1723) at Rastatt Palace
It was no accident that I recalled La Fontaine's fable of the statue of Jupiter last night. In an illustrated edition of La Fontaine, the figure of Jupiter was depicted as a sculpture resembling the one installed in the hall of the former residence of the Margraves of
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Valery Yurlov retrospective at the New Tretyakov Gallery and an Art Focus video interview
Valery Ivanovich Yurlov is a leading figure of Russian neo-avant-garde and non-objective painting, author of the "para-forms" method and of series in which he explores the relations of forms, their interaction and transformation. Valery Yurlov's works are held in the collections of
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Allegory of the Victory at Chesma
"The sea; in the distance the Russian fleet can be seen; in the foreground Empress Catherine II in a chariot drawn by sea-horses and guided by Neptune; on the right side of the chariot is Minerva, and on the left a genius holds fettered Turks on a chain
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Casket for Catherine II's Charters to the City of Tver, in Gilt Bronze
The casket was intended for the safekeeping of important founding documents and charters granted for the administration of the governorates of the All-Russian Empire". The Tver Viceroyalty, established on 25 November 1775, became the first administrative-territorial unit of the new pattern in the Russian Empire. The casket
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