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In the painting by Vasily Maximov (1844-1911) from the collection of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, we see a boy secretly drinking wine, unbeknown to his parents. The painting is called "Following the Example of Their Elders". Our youth love luxury, they are badly brought up, they
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The diamond parure of Marie Antoinette, from the exhibition devoted to her at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is a great pity that I could not attend the exhibition, since I have no English visa, but thanks to a correspondent in England I shall prepare a detailed report all
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📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Masterpieces of Early Photography. 1840–1870” at the Béton Centre for Visual Culture, until 30 November 📌 The exhibition “The Back of the Hand. Olga Sokolova, Evgeniya Goltseva” at the Museum of Decorative Art, until 30 November 📌 11 November: opening of the exhibition “From Dawn to Dusk:
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The Wounded Amazon, Franz von Stuck, 1905. A description of the image of the wounded Amazon is found in Pliny the Elder, who tells of a competition for the finest sculpture on the subject, in which the celebrated sculptors of the 5th century BC Polykleitos, Phidias, Kresilas and Phradmon took
Archaeology · The East · Museums
A child's chair more than 3,200 years old from the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings at West Thebes. Six chairs in all were found in the tomb. This one is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Its state of preservation is fairly
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Tradition is what lives today, what is not merely memory but constant movement forward. For me, tradition and the avant-garde are not opposite poles but a dialogue in which I find my own point. Irina Zatulovskaya, whose exhibition runs until 30 November at MMOMA on Gogolevsky Boulevard, speaks of
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It turns out that the original version of the sculpted portrait of Nefertiti had wrinkles. This was shown by a CT scan of the bust carried out in 2006, which revealed a second sculpture carved into the limestone core beneath the plaster. The inner face proved to be more realistic:
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So the theses that the "professionals" of "organised crime" were "very well prepared" collapse, and give way to the picture of a gang of suburban toughs, apparently of North African origin, who belonged to no special "elite" criminal fraternity of museum thieves
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📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Not Only Bruegel. Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Prints from the Collections of Moscow and Saint Petersburg” at the Pushkin Museum, until 9 November 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Masterpieces of Kazakhstan's Art” at the New Tretyakov Gallery, until 23 November 📌 The exhibition “Fundamental Lexicon. Contemporary Art
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The director is not coping, but do not worry: a letter has already been written on her behalf. Signed by colleagues, relatives, friends, and grandmother's dog. Fifty-seven people in all. Who they are hardly matters. What matters is that there are many of them. It is a
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The painting was stolen on 21 August 1911 by an Italian, Vincenzo Peruggia, an employee of the Louvre. On 12 December 1913 it was found in Florence