Art · Museums · Observations · Rome
In the collection of the National Roman Museum there is an extraordinary block of marble with a relief of a half-naked woman being raised up by two handmaidens whose heads and shoulders, alas, have been knocked off. This monument of the 5th century BC is usually called the Ludovisi
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The German artist Guido Philipp Schmitt
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Cosimo III de' Medici placed the Russian pensioner Ivan Nikitin in the academy of the painter Tommaso Redi. It was here that Nikitin painted a portrait of Peter I, who had sent him to study; the picture is in the collection of the Uffizi
Coming Up · The East · Art · Museums
The New Jerusalem Museum has opened "Light Between Worlds", a large-scale exhibition project that brings together two significant but little-studied collections of art of the 1920s and 1930s: that of the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and that of the
Art · Moscow
Viktor Vasnetsov's painting "The Boyar" has been valued at 27 million roubles. For more than a hundred years the work was kept in the private collection of the heirs of the astronomer and collector Avenir Yakovkin. The auction will take place on 8 June. We shall
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Alexander the Great watches his beloved Roxana from a special bubble-shaped device for underwater travel. The technology of the future in the service of the ancient world
Art · People
Footballers, by the artist Nicolas de Staël, 1952. Nikolai Vladimirovich Stael von Holstein, a French abstract painter of Russian origin, the son of a general in the Russian army. He is better known under the name of Nicolas de Staël
Art · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Good Lord, what a nightmare. Vandals in Paris have climbed onto the statue of Joan of Arc. The footage from the city streets almost repeats the scenes of the sack of Rome by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre
Art · Cinema · New York
Wes Anderson's new film "The Phoenician Scheme" has opened in New York and Los Angeles. Its hero, Zsa-zsa Korda (played by Benicio del Toro), a charming swindler, hatches a grandiose transcontinental project, the "Phoenician Scheme". But his plan, as is the way of
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Emperor Alexander I and Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, Drawn in Japan. The august pair were captured by an artist who most probably never saw them and had not the faintest notion of their appearance, so that the realism of the portraits rests solely on pale skin and fair hair. I do
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