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Lorry damages the façade of Golitsyn House on the Fontanka Embankment
KAMAZ: Looks Like I Really Am the First at This Arch. The Golitsyn House on the Fontanka Embankment: in pain
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Louvre director Laurence des Cars resigns four months after the museum robbery
What should have happened four months ago, after the robbery of the Louvre, has now come to pass: its director Laurence des Cars has resigned, and the President of France has accepted her resignation. And he promptly sent her off to work on cooperation between major museums as part of
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A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall
A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall. The news calls the people who did it activists. Naturally, they have some political or moral justification for their demonstration. In principle, after all,
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The South African game Relooted, about the theft of African art from Western museums, was released a couple of weeks ago and at its peak attracted just 57 concurrent users on the leading online gaming platform
A studio with thirty full-time employees and a host of outside consulting firms worked on the game for seven years, yet it is estimated to have sold fewer than 2,000 copies. Although nobody is actually playing Relooted (in Russian, Pereukradeno), it has received wide coverage in the leading
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Caravaggio's “Burial of Saint Lucy”, painted in 1608 during his flight from Malta, is in Syracuse, in the church of Santa Lucia alla Badia on Ortygia
The picture was painted to a local commission, at a time when the cult of the saint venerated here had suffered from the theft of her relics. In this large-format altarpiece, measuring three metres by four, the body of the beheaded martyr Lucy of Syracuse is shown in the
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Macron announces Leribo, head of Versailles, as president of the Louvre
The worst director in the Louvre's history replaced by Christophe Leribault, formerly president of the Palace of Versailles. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the appointment of the 63-year-old Leribault at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. Leribault is an art historian who has previously worked
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Director of the Louvre in Paris resigns, and the author assesses her work
Well, well: the Director of the Louvre has finally resigned. She wrecked whatever she could, and we may at least be thankful she did not burn the place down
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The Trinity Lavra of St Sergius in 1962
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Hotel in a 1681 building on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles and its interiors
Having a look inside the once much-discussed hotel right beside the Palace of Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle Château de Versailles. The hotel's unique selling point is its location literally on the palace grounds, that is, within the boundaries of the estate, behind the gates of the palace
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Equestrian statue of Charles I in the oldest known photograph of London from 1839
The oldest known photograph of London was taken in 1839. It shows the equestrian statue of Charles I near Charing Cross station This is the oldest bronze statue in London. It rises on a traffic island where Trafalgar Square meets Whitehall. The spot is officially called the “centre of London”
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Colbert statue defaced in Paris, conviction overturned by Court of Cassation
State negrophobia? Or perhaps chronicles of the Great Replacement? In Paris, the statue of Colbert in front of the National Assembly has been defaced. But the vandals will face no consequences. This is not the first act of vandalism against the monument to the finance minister of Louis XIV, who
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Church of the Holy Trinity in Byokhovo, created by Vasily Polenov and reopened in 1985
Art must bring happiness and joy, or it is worth nothing. The Church of the Holy Trinity on the bank of the Oka, in the village of Bekhovo, was created in 1904–1906 by Vasily Polenov himself, who drew on the forms of Romanesque and Byzantine building and of the