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Jo Vickery on the results of 2024 in the Russian art market in London

“For three years now London has held no Russian sale, the famous auction that had existed in one form or another since the late 1980s. It was a golden age: the descendants of Russian émigrés and celebrities such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, or Prince and Princess Michael of

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Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads

Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads. Christian and Historical Subjects in the Work of Russian Artists" is open until 30 March. A rare opportunity to see masterpieces of Russian art in regional museum halls. The exhibition presents works by Repin, Vasnetsov,

Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with The Art Newspaper Russia, presents the project "This Is the Best We Have"

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with The Art Newspaper Russia, has presented the project "This Is the Best We Have". The Art Newspaper Russia's Choice. The exhibition is a retrospective of Russian contemporary art over more than half a century. The display includes selected

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In 2003 the Getty Museum acquired three miniatures from the fifteenth-century manuscript "The Hours of Louis XII", created by the court artist and painter of the French Renaissance Jean Bourdichon

In 2003 the Getty Museum acquired three miniatures from the fifteenth-century manuscript "The Hours of Louis XII", created by the court artist and painter of the French Renaissance Jean Bourdichon. One of the miniatures, depicting King Louis XII surrounded by four saints, seemed incomplete: the saints were

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums

The Venus of Willendorf is a very compact sculpture and really can fit in the palm of a hand

Painting of a child in a white Pierrot costume and black cap hugging a large black cat standing on its hind legs.

Art · Paris · Nature · Humour

Théophile Steinlen’s 1889 painting “Pierrot and the Cat” and his link to the Paris cabaret Le Chat Noir

Leave the Cat Alone, Boy! “Pierrot and the Cat”, 1889, a painting by Théophile Steinlen, the Swiss artist and adherent of Art Nouveau, who was a lively presence in the cultural life of Paris, not least thanks to his collaboration with the famous cabaret Le Chat Noir

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"Bathing of a Red Horse" by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and a print from the 2005 "Mazda Masterpiece" advertisement

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The Best So Far on the Subject

The young Napoleon Bonaparte at his studies in Brienne (Jean Onfroy de Bréville, 1910). And the not-so-young Trump, who long ago stopped learning anything new.

Architecture · Faith · Art · Museums · Society · Paris

Digest of channel posts from the first two weeks of February on Paris, culture and history

A guide to the posts published on the channel in the first two weeks of February. Besides a great many posts about Paris, there was cultural news, surveys of social problems and astonishing stories from the past. 📌 The story of Saint Plautilla, who handed her veil to the Apostle Paul

Faith · Art · Museums · Paris · Pop Culture

Wooden figure of Saint Mary Magdalene by Gregor Erhart, La Belle Allemande, 1510, Louvre collection

And photographs of Nicole Kidman from Vogue Australia, 1994, shot by Rocky Schenk

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The Conversion of Saint Paul, Laurent de La Hyre, 1637

The Conversion of Saint Paul, Laurent de La Hyre, 1637. Notre-Dame de Paris

Old engraving of a man standing on a sphere, pulled by a thread from a woman on the left and by a chain from a man on the right, with a lute, globe and books below.

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A 1608 engraving on the choice between study and entertainment

Study or amusements. 1608. A choice for which we have failed to prepare in 400 years