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Émile Lévy’s painting “The Death of Orpheus”, painted in 1866
"Orpheus is dead!" "What?" "Wake up, I'm telling you" The Death of Orpheus. Émile Lévy, 1866
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Deyneka's monumental panels shown at the Russian Museum for the first time in 50 years
The Russian Museum has shown Deineka's monumental panels for the first time in 50 years at the exhibition "Alexander Deineka. Singer of the New Life". The project is timed to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the eminent Soviet artist. The exhibition presents about 90 works
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
A great many people at the opening of "Forward to Zlotnikov" at Ground Solyanka
Those who remember the exhibition "Zlotnikov. The Signal System" at the New Tretyakov Gallery will find that it differs from this one. At Ground Solyanka there is more painting, and there are sculptures that I, for one, am seeing for the first time, while documents and photographs are
The East · Art · Observations · Ethnography
Similarities between Abramtsevo carving and Afghan household objects of the early 20th century
Everyone probably knows, or has at least once seen in a museum, Abramtsevo carving and the household objects and furniture made in its techniques. The craft is sometimes called Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving, and it is connected above all with Abramtsevo, Polenovo and the name of the artist Elena Dmitrievna Polenova.
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Skilled Work, Then and Now:
Art · People
A Knitted Doily in Carrara Marble
The Greek sculptor Argyris Rallias, born in 1993. We shall not compare him with the masterpieces of the past, but by the standards of our own times it looks rather good
NB! · Archive · Art
A Battle Between the Russian and French Armies
A Battle Between the Russian and French Armies. Mid-nineteenth century, unknown artist
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A Sketch for Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper"
NB! · Architecture · Art · Heritage
The Lions before the Arsenal in Venice: Genuine Antique Sculptures Carried Off from Greece
Archive · Faith · Art · Books · Paris
Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, an eleventh-century book
The rider on the pale horse is Death. Exhibition at the National Library of France
Art · Museums · Observations · Mores
The "Russian Incredible" exhibition has many paintings before which one stops with a lungful of air
But the painting "Aunt Sasha" by David Petrovich Shterenberg simply will not let go. From the collection of the State Russian Museum. 1922-1923. The Civil War has only just ended. Before us sits a Russian village woman in a cornflower-blue headscarf and blouse. She is no