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"At the Restaurant", a painting by Charles Hoffbauer, created in 1907
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“Thumbelina and the Beetle”, a papier-mâché Christmas tree decoration, 1900s–1910s
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A legend has died 😔
Cecilia Giménez Zueco has died at the age of 94. She became famous in 2012 for her amateur restoration of the fresco Ecce Homo, painted in 1930 by Elías García Martínez. When a fresco in the Sanctuary of Mercy in the small Spanish town of Borja, in the province of
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Five exhibitions closing between 11 January and 17 May
New selection of Moscow exhibitions you can visit this week:. 📌 Closing soon. The exhibition “Yakov Chernikhov. An Image of the Future. Architectural Fantasies of the Russian Avant-Garde” at the Jewish Museum, until 11 January 📌 The exhibition “From the Patriotic War to the Decembrists. Icons, Graphic Art and Decorative Objects”
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For New Year cheer I am, for the moment, relying on a bauble bearing a sketch of a space object by Rostan Tavasiev, from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
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Silhouettes of the Nyryshkin Family at an Exhibition on the Decembrists
Silhouettes of the Nyryshkin family at an exhibition on the Decembrists. Moscow, 1850. Most remarkable of all, every sitter is identified by name: Anastasia Yakovlevna, Evdokia Mikhailovna, the Abbess Maria, Varvara Alexandrovna, Rachel; in the middle row, Nikolai Alexandrovich, Yakov Alexandrovich, Annette, Kirill Alexandrovich, Mikhail Alexandrovich; in the bottom row,
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Of the scanty listings of events devoted to the Decembrists, one exhibition made a good impression: "In the Depths of the Siberian Mines
Of the scanty listings of events devoted to the Decembrists, one made a good impression: the exhibition "In the Depths of the Siberian Mines. The Decembrists. 200 Years of History" at the In artibus foundation. The display brings together exhibits from six state collections, chiefly watercolours with portraits
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The Hermitage shows Rembrandt’s “The Sacrifice of Abraham” after four years of restoration
The Hermitage has completed the restoration of Rembrandt's "The Sacrifice of Abraham". The results of the work, which lasted four years, are presented at a temporary exhibition in the Apollo Hall of the Winter Palace. Specialists removed layers of yellowed varnish and later overpainting which for
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Italian artist Correggio's painting of 1526 in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery
Madonna Adoring the Child. Italian Renaissance painter Correggio, 1526, collection of the Uffizi Gallery
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Novgorod Museum-Reserve Acquires Birch-Bark Manuscript Found in an Old Believer Settlement on the Yenisei
The Novgorod Museum-Reserve has received a manuscript on birch bark, found in an Old Believer settlement on the Yenisei. The twentieth-century manuscript contains excerpts from the “Ladder of Divine Ascent” of John Climacus. In Siberian villages, letters and books continued to be produced on birch bark right up
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Researchers reconstruct Georges Clemenceau's microbiome from his toothbrush kept in a museum
Georges Clemenceau's Toothbrush Kept Its Secrets for a Century. French museum curators never cease to astonish. This time with their scholarly labours. Having examined the toothbrush of the Prime Minister of France in 1906 to 1909 and again in 1917 to 1920, researchers have managed to reconstruct his
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The Entombment
The Entombment. Fresco by Fra Angelico, painted in 1441 in the Convent of San Marco A dream for 2026: to visit Florence once more and see this beauty