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The Creation of Eve and the Fall on the “Paradise” Panel of Bosch’s “Last Judgement” Triptych
The Lord scatters the darkness of demons. "Paradise", the left panel of Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Last Judgement, 1504. From the bottom upwards we see the creation of Eve, the Fall, the expulsion of the first humans from Eden. And at the top: a battle between
NB! · Art · Books · Observations
A Bibliophile's Dream: Cicero's Selected Letters and Speeches, Illustrated!
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Catholic church in Taiwan decorated in Chinese style after sketches by Gresnigt
Taiwan has a Catholic church in the Chinese style, inspired by sketches by Gresnigt. The apostles at the Last Supper here eat with chopsticks, and all the saints have faces resembling those of the Chinese
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Sketches for a Catholic church in the Chinese style, created by the Benedictine monk Adelbert Gresnigt and published in the bulletin of the Catholic University of Peking in the 1920s
The East · Art · Moscow · Observations
Sixth “Art Russia” Fair at Gostiny Dvor Draws More Than 50,000 Visitors
It turns out a week has already passed since the close of the sixth "Art Russia" contemporary art fair at Gostiny Dvor. We are told that the fair gathered a record number of participants and guests: more than 50,000 people attended. Interestingly, this year the fair presented
Archive · Art · Moscow · People
Tolstoy's Friendship with Paolo Trubetskoy and His Sculpted Portraits of the Writer
"Lev Nikolaevich is being modelled all the time by Trubetskoy, and the bust is very good: majestic, characteristic and true" - Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, diary entry of 16 - 23 April 1898. The friendly relations between Tolstoy and Trubetskoy are, in general, well known. Lev Nikolayevich liked the artist'
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Service with fleurs-de-lis used at the banquet for the coronation of the Comte d'Artois as Charles X Bourbon, King of France, at Reims in 1824
Faith · Art
Samson in the Temple of the Philistines in Gustave Doré's Engraving of 1866
Samson destroys the pagan temple in which the Philistines are celebrating their victory over him. And the reader comes at last to understand that the hero's extraordinary strength lay not in his hair, but in his obedience to God. Engraving by Gustave Doré, 1866
Architecture · Art · Observations
Alberta Ferretti's Milan apartment opened to the public during Design Week
Our Milan walk continues. The magnificent interior in the photographs is the decor of one of the apartments of the designer Alberta Ferretti, used as a working space and closed to visitors on ordinary days. For Design Week, however, the celebrated studio Artemest furnished this remarkable space, and it was
Art · London · Museums · Observations
Titian’s “Allegory of Prudence” in the National Gallery and readings of its three ages
Titian, Allegory of Prudence. The painting is customarily read as a depiction of the three ages of man and the three tenses: past, present and future, a token of the prudence that comes with the years. But who, in that case, are the dog, the lion and the wolf meant
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