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Artist Maria Katkova and ink made from the inky cap mushroom
I came across an account by the artist Maria Katkova of how she once made several works using mushroom ink. What is that, you ask? The artist explains the recipe: if you pick an ink cap (a dung-loving one, to be precise), place it on a saucer and watch,
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Ilya Repin painted “Walk with Lanterns” at Abramtsevo on 1 September 1879
An unexpectedly Impressionist Repin! Ilya Repin painted A Walk with Lanterns in 1879, during his five years in Moscow, but the picture was created not in Moscow but at Abramtsevo. In the painting we see Elizaveta Grigoryevna Mamontova, the mistress of the Abramtsevo house, surrounded by children on an avenue
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Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was also a rather good artist
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was also a rather good artist. In this photograph of 1979, Leonov is at work on his painting “The Voskhod 2 Spacecraft”
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Design and contemporary art within the walls of a cultural centre housed in Milan's Palazzo Litta, where Napoleon once stayed
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Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine
An Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine. Its age: more than 2,500 years
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In 1911 Edgar Bundy depicted Death as a mounted general on a battlefield
Death in the guise of a general on horseback on the battlefield. Edgar Bundy, 1911
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Donatello’s “Feast of Herod” in Lille and the Innovative Perspective of the Marble Relief
How Did Donatello Achieve in Marble the Same Effect That Da Vinci Achieved in Oil Painting? Now held in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, the "Feast of Herod" is one of Donatello's greatest masterpieces. The marble version may perhaps yield to the dramatic intensity
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The Rue du Cherche-Midi in Paris, its name origins and César Baldaccini's centaur
There is a curious street in Paris called Rue du Cherche-Midi, "Seek Noon Street". One version holds that the name comes from an ancient bas-relief of an astronomer taking measurements with a sundial. Another ties the enigmatic, even comical name to the forests that once covered
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Caravaggio's "Sacrifice of Isaac" on the Cover of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"
Caravaggio's "Sacrifice of Isaac" on the cover of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling". A marriage made in heaven
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"American Ecological Horse Jason and Two Equilibrists Ave Maria", silicone sculpture painted in acrylic, Robert Combas, 2024
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Mercury in a Chariot Drawn by Cockerels as Patron of Wrestlers in a Manuscript Miniature
Mercury in a chariot drawn by cocks. The cock appears here not only as a companion of solar deities but also as a symbol of combat, through its association with the cockfights so popular in the ancient world. Mercury, among other things, was the patron of wrestling and wrestlers.