Faith · Art · Books · Museums · Rome

Raphael’s last painting, “Transfiguration”, as described by Vasari

Let us begin the week before Great Lent with Raphael's Transfiguration of Christ. This is the last picture the artist worked on before his death in 1520. It is kept in the Vatican Pinacoteca. A reminder that the beauty of Christ's sacrifice will save the world.

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Exhibition of Old Believer icons opens 27 February in Clinton, Massachusetts

Exhibition of Old Believer icons to open in the United States. On 27 February, the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, Massachusetts, will open the exhibition “Icons: The Old Believers and Their World”. The exhibition is devoted to the tradition of the Old Believer icon-painting centres of Palekh,

Art · Madrid · Museums

In all likelihood, a depiction of a theatrical staging of Euripides' play "Heracles", which tells the myth of Heracles gone mad

On the stage of a theatre we see Heracles, driven to despair by the spirits of madness. The hero is ready to destroy his own family: he is about to throw his son, whom he holds in his arms, into a fire in which all his possessions are already burning.

Archaeology · Art · Madrid · Museums · Heritage · Paris

One of the most famous sculptures of the ancient world and arguably the greatest monument of Iberian art, the Lady of Elche, found in 1897, was soon after its discovery acquired by the Louvre for 4,000 francs

The masterpiece of Spanish antiquity remained in France until 1941, when Spain exchanged it, under a special programme, for several dozen other works of art and items of jewellery. The sculpture dates from the 4th century BC. Franco ordered the Lady of Elche to be displayed in the Prado National

Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums

In the "Where to Go" section: a new selection of exhibition events in Moscow

📌 The exhibition "From Fabric to Space. Avant-Garde Women of Design" at the Museum of Decorative Art: until 29 March 📌 The joint exhibition by Veronika Kozachenok and Yegor Koreshkov "He / She" at Cube.Moscow: until 19 April 📌 13 February: opening of the exhibition "Behind the

Architecture · Museums · Society · Paris

The Louvre suspends its expansion competition shortly before the jury vote

The Louvre has suspended indefinitely the competition for the museum's expansion project, announced in June 2025. The decision was taken less than a week before the jury was due to vote on the winner. The Louvre - Nouvelle Renaissance project, announced by Macron in January 2025, was meant to

Black-and-white photograph of a building with an arched gateway and a bakery sign on the ground floor, with passers-by on the pavement.

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Former Hotel du Nord in Odessa, where Pushkin stayed in the summer of 1823

The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here

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Landscape with a Mill at the Pushkin Memorial Museum-Reserve "Mikhailovskoye" in the 1990s

Yury Sadovnikov

Coming Up · The East · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums

An exhibition on the fates of Genghis Khan's descendants at the Russian court, 15th–17th centuries, to open at the Moscow Kremlin Museums

The exhibition “Descendants of Genghis Khan. Rus and the World” opens on 20 March. The display will include objects that tell of the legacy of the Mongol Empire and the Golden Horde, of Russo-Tatar ties and mutual cultural influence, of dynastic marriages and court ceremonial

Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris

The Louvre to restore a deformed crown of 1855 made for Napoleon III

The Louvre announces a tender for the restoration of Empress Eugénie's crown, dropped by the robbers as they fled the scene of the crime. The crown, set with diamonds and emeralds, was deformed, lost part of its decorative elements and one of its golden eagles. According to the

Faith · Art · Museums

The Dormition of the Virgin

Maso di Banco, c. 1335 Château de Chantilly

Art · Moscow · Museums

“The Sacrifice of Iphigenia” and Dufresnoy’s “Rinaldo and Armida” after Tasso’s poem

"The Sacrifice of Iphigenia" by Jean Tassel in the Salon of the Cupid Hall of the Arkhangelskoye Estate. Agamemnon is about to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis in order to secure a fair wind for the fleet at Aulis. The departure of the Greek fleet