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This Is How the British Museum Displays the Library of Nineveh

The legendary Library of King Ashurbanipal was discovered by the Englishman Austen Henry Layard in 1849. He managed to unearth one part of the vast library, which had been kept in the north-west palace on the banks of the Euphrates. And he brought the epoch-making find to England

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The exhibition "Byzantine Symphony" has opened at the Museum of the International Numismatic Club in Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane

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

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The government is provisional, a provisional screen; the second revolution, a screen on its side…

The government is provisional, a provisional screen; the second revolution, a screen on its side… England has sniffed the air: it smells rich. The occupation of Baku has been played out by the book. Smooth and hard, like an oaken egg, like a tub, the chief actor of the piece,

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

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A Means of Conveyance for the Well-to-Do Chinese, or Plans for the Day

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Hell among the Indians, Naraka, lies at the bottom of the earth, but souls are condemned to remain there only for a time, depending on their guilt, after which they may leave it in the shape of "unclean" beasts

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Another tick in the list of Nobel laureates' books read

Another tick in the list of Nobel laureates' books read. Russian-speaking readers could already make the acquaintance of the South Korean writer Han Kang a few years ago: two novels by this year's Nobel laureate have been published in Russia, "The Vegetarian" and "

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The Andalusian Fates, José Villegas y Cordero, 1910–1913

José Villegas y Cordero (1844–1921), a Spanish painter from Seville, sold his first picture at the age of twelve and in time became one of the best-paid and most collected of Spanish artists. His early work is devoted to Orientalist subjects; after all, Morocco is nearer to Seville

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As of 1674, when this painting was made, the Parthenon in Athens was intact

As of 1674, when this painting was made, the Parthenon in Athens was intact. More or less in its original form, if one sets aside the Ottoman decorative transformation. Jacques Carrey, the French artist famed for his Athenian sketches, who belonged to the retinue of the French ambassador to the

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“The Hindus call the bull father, and the cow mother

“The Hindus call the bull father, and the cow mother. On their dung they bake bread and cook their dishes.” Dmitry Butorin. Illustration to Afanasy Nikitin’s Journey Beyond Three Seas. 1960

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The Virgin Mary in the Japanese Pictorial Tradition

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Masonic Moscow

Masonic Moscow. A six-pointed star, blazing torches and a medallion with a three-faced figure in the bas-reliefs on the façade of the Kazakov building of Moscow University (photos 1, 2), rebuilt in 1817 under the direction of Domenico, or Dementy Ivanovich, Gilardi. Today the Kazakov building houses