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Igor Shelkovsky exhibition “Celestial City. The Artist’s Workshop” at MAMM until 15 December

The Multimedia Art Museum is hosting a major exhibition of Igor Shelkovsky, "Celestial City. The Artist's Studio". Together with the retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery and MAMM, it is the largest exhibition of the master's work. Shelkovsky is one of the outstanding nonconformists, a

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Science

The Getty Museum bought a kouros for 10 million dollars, but later checks pointed to a forgery

At the close of 1983 the art dealer Gianfranco Becchina approached the Getty Museum in California, offering to sell it a beautifully preserved marble statue of the 6th century BC for a record 10 million dollars. The museum people naturally took the two-metre kouros away for examination, which pointed

A pale two-handled pot with floral garlands, with a figure of Napoleon in a blue uniform with a yellow collar inside.

Art · Observations · Mores · Humour

English chamber pot with a figure of Napoleon inside, early 19th century

Chamber pot with a figure of Napoleon. 1803-05, England. Can you imagine how afraid the English were of this man?

Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage · Paris

Stained Glass of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and the Relics of the Royal Palace on the Île de la Cité

The Sainte-Chapelle, a small Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité in Paris, within the grounds of the former Royal Palace, is famous precisely for its outstanding stained glass. The magnificent decoration of the chapel had to match the grandeur of the sacred relics kept in its treasury,

Art · Observations · Rome · Humour

Runaway horses at Trajan's Column in Rome in a painting by Giacomo van Lint

As Your Literature Teacher Would Say, Here the Bolter Bolted. I love this genre scene by Giacomo van Lint, set by Trajan's Column in Rome. The horses have bolted and cannot now be stopped without a coachman's help. But there are no coachmen on the box.

Aristocracy · Art · Mores · People

Lucas Cranach the Elder's Judith of 1530, Sibylle of Cleves and Elector John Frederick

Judith with the Head of Holofernes. Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530. The model for this painting, as for many of Cranach's other works, was Princess Sibylle of Cleves. Cranach had been tutor to her husband, John Frederick, Elector of Saxony. John Frederick is also portrayed in the picture:

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The “Byzantine Symphony” exhibition has opened at the International Numismatic Club Museum

The exhibition "Byzantine Symphony. Treasures Earthly and Heavenly" has opened at the Museum of the International Numismatic Club in Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane. The display offers a reinterpretation of the legacy of Byzantine art in a contemporary space. Forms borrowed from medieval ecclesiastical and secular architecture create a special

Painting of a lush bouquet of white, yellow and pink flowers with one red bloom in a vase against a dark blue background.

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Van Gogh's 1889 visit to Seurat's studio and the bright palette of his 1890 bouquet

In 1889 Van Gogh visited the studio of Georges Seurat, whom he admired, and was deeply impressed by the brilliance and mood of his palette. It was in this period that Van Gogh freed himself from the dark range of his Dutch years. In 1890 he painted this magnificent bouquet

A tall dark hat with a straight crown and a narrow brim, showing wear and holes on the crown, photographed against a white background.

Art · London · Museums

Tall dark hat with a brim from the Victoria and Albert Museum

An English Hat of the Seventeenth Century. Victoria and Albert Museum

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The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family, as Imagined by the Chinese Artist Ren Yifang

Art · Museums · Paris · Ethnography

Taino and Kalinago chair on show at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris

A chair by craftsmen of the Antilles. A work of art by the Taíno and Kalinago peoples, who inhabited the Caribbean basin before the arrival of Columbus. Together with other examples of this culture, the chair is on show at the exhibition “Taínos and Kalinagos of the Antilles” in one

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