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Saint George, a curly-haired little boy, 15th century, Sartorio Museum, Trieste, Italy
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A photograph from the Russian Museum archive: this is how large canvases were prepared for conservation and transport, rolled onto perfectly smooth plywood drums, interleaved with thick paper, with the edges of the canvases stitched together
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Repin centenary exhibition in Perm in 1944 from the evacuated works of the Russian Museum
The centenary of Ilya Repin's birth in 1944 was marked by a large exhibition at the Perm Regional Museum, assembled from the holdings of the Russian Museum, evacuated to the city in 1941. In all, some 200 works by Repin found themselves in evacuation: watercolours, paintings, drawings. The
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Fragments of the marble copy of Lysippos's Granicus battle group commissioned by Lucullus
In the 1st century BC the Roman general Lucullus commissioned a marble copy of the bronze group by the celebrated sculptor Lysippos, which commemorated Alexander the Great's victory over the Persians at the Battle of the Granicus. Of the marble statues there survive a couple of torsos, a
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In 1976 Egypt issued a passport to the mummy of Ramesses II for examination in Paris
In September 1976 Egypt issued a passport for the Pharaoh Ramesses II. The document certified that Ramesses II was indeed the Pharaoh of Egypt and had been born in 1303 BC. Egyptian scientists had noticed that the pharaoh's body had begun to decay rapidly, possibly owing to the
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Four-headed sculpture of the Virgin and Child from Provence, 14th century, in the Musée Pierre de Luxembourg
Virgin and Child: an enigmatic sculpture with four heads. Provence, second half of the 14th century. Musée Pierre de Luxembourg. It may have been set in a portal and divided down the middle by a screen
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The Archangel Gabriel from the Antalya Archaeological Museum
The Archangel Gabriel from the Antalya Archaeological Museum. The relief bears not only Greek lettering but also Arabic, over the medallion in Gabriel's hands
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The Pointed Shoes of William III of Orange Are Indeed Worthy of an English King
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The May Decrees of 2012 excluded copy exhibitions from museums' state assignments
At a museum dinner marking Leo Tolstoy's 190th anniversary, I learned that among other things the May Decrees of 2012 included a provision that exhibitions of copies do not count towards the state assignment, so a museum cannot report them as fulfilment of its plan. The innovation was
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The Very Reliquary with the Teeth of Abelard and Heloise, Once Owned by Alexandre Lenoir
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In one of the tales in Alexandre Dumas's "A Thousand and One Ghosts" we meet a certain Monsieur Ledru, keeper of an entire collection of royal relics, which he acquired by attending the despoiling of the burial vaults in the Basilica of Saint-Denis and ta
In one of the tales in Alexandre Dumas's "A Thousand and One Ghosts" we meet a certain Monsieur Ledru, keeper of an entire collection of royal relics, which he acquired by attending the despoiling of the burial vaults in the Basilica of Saint-Denis and taking