Education - The Parnassian (Page 16)

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For the attention of museum staff

The Pushkin Museum is opening applications for its “Summer School of Inclusive Practices”, intended for museum professionals who work on developing an accessible environment and on engaging with visitors in the modern museum. The project is open to specialists in inclusive, educational and interdisciplinary museum work, guides, and staff and

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When Stanislavsky asked Mikhoels what, in his opinion, the flight of a bird begins with, he answered: the bird first spreads its wings

When Stanislavsky asked Mikhoels what, in his opinion, the flight of a bird begins with, he answered: the bird first spreads its wings. Stanislavsky objected: nothing of the sort, for flight a bird needs, above all, free breathing, and so it fills its chest with air, becomes proud, and begins

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When You Meet the First-Years

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The Young Napoleon Bonaparte Studying at Brienne

The young Napoleon Bonaparte studying at Brienne. Jean Onfroy de Bréville, 1910. One of the most famous images of Napoleon

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The American professor of classics Bernard Knox once remarked that a few rides in Athenian taxis had given him a fresh appreciation of the Homeric chariot races

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Perhaps everyone has seen this already, but the crib sheets of a Spanish student at the University of Málaga, published by his lecturer, really do look like a work of art

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A Creative Competition for the Friends of Saint Petersburg

“Friends of Saint Petersburg” is a festival of creative and educational projects under the auspices of PJSC Gazprom, devoted to preserving the city's heritage and fostering its development. 3 days, 20+ venues, 80+ events, 15,000+ free tickets: from masterclasses and lectures to theatre performances, concerts and original

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A Teacher and His Students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian Theologian Augustinus of Ancona

A teacher and his students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian theologian Augustinus of Ancona. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that the tables with benches in this illustration of the fifteenth century bear a suspicious resemblance to the celebrated Erismann desks, invented

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This Is Not an Antique Sculpture

This is not an antique sculpture. The marble Spartacus was made in 1830 by Denis Foyatier, who was completing his studies at the Villa Medici in Rome, as a reward for his successful progress at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris

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First It Was Great Dal, Now Great Is Rosenthal

First it was great Dal, now great is Rosenthal. Yes, the language, as if out of spite, was clearly unlucky with Russians. There was Baudouin de Courtenay, and beside him, back to back, in Berlin Vasmer published long ago an etymological dictionary. Then came Barkhudaryan, his countryman Hovhannisyan. Every non-

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It is a great pity that for many the first of September is bound up with traumatic experience

It is a great pity that for many the first of September is bound up with traumatic experience. Plenty of far from stupid people will tell you, in one voice, that school was the most useless time of their lives; some even liken those ten or eleven years to captivity.

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