Art · Books · Museums
Дочь Зевсова! брось ты войну и кровавую битву; Не довольно ли, если прельщаешь ты слабых супругов? Страшно, ах, страшно опять возвращаться тебе на сраженья. Или, быть может, захочешь еще — и содрогнешься при мысли: Всякий раз, как пойдешь, увидишь то место, где рана Тяжкая в длань проницала тебе от руки Диомеда!
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Museums
An amulet in the form of a dog, made around the 3rd millennium BC, is dedicated to Gula of the pantheon of south-western Iran Gula was venerated in Mesopotamia as the patroness of healing and medicine. Her sacred symbol was the dog, associated with rites of healing
NB! · Art · Museums · Humour
A happy coincidence. A project by the French photographer Stéphane Dréchan about people in museums and their looks that match works of art
Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
Picasso Museum in Paris Announces Major Redevelopment by 2030. The Picasso Museum in Paris, which holds the largest collection of the artist's work in the world, with more than 5,000 works and 200,000 archival items, is preparing for a major redevelopment. The plans include a new
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
Restoration of the Egyptian Pavilion at the Ostankino Estate completed. Specialists have restored more than 700 sq. m. of authentic artistic parquet, door leaves adorned with gilded and silvered carving, faux marble, items of fittings and stucco decoration, as well as the historic stoves with their sculpted sphinxes. The design
Art · Museums · Humour
They Rather Overdid It with This Fellow. Eighteenth-century Venetian marionettes from the collection of the Marchesa Luisa Casati
Faith · Art · London · Monarchies · Museums
Richard II Presented to the Virgin and Child by His Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund. otherwise known as the Wilton Diptych, made of two small panels joined by hinges and painted on both sides. On the front, at left, we see the young King Richard
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
A drawing by the Greek artist Alekos Fassianos recalled Anna Romanova's exhibition "Argonauts of the Underground" at the Voznesensky Centre, with its linear graphic art of the 1950s and 60s, featuring works by Soosteri, Sobolev, Yakovlev, Sidur, Matisse and Picasso. The exhibition was three years ago,
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Science · Paris
Shocked to Learn That Several Gold Nuggets Were Stolen Last Week from a Paris Mineralogy Gallery. The theft took place in the early hours of 17 September. The perpetrators entered the hall of mineralogy and geology at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris by disabling the security system
Art · Museums · Observations · People
Shelkovsky's mask is on show in the Artists' Village on Maslovka. The mask of Agamemnon is in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
I did not know that Moscow had a little neighbourhood where, from the 1930s onwards, outstanding Soviet artists lived and worked side by side. Igor Grabar, Boris Ioganson, Geliy Korzhev, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Tyshler, Semyon Chuikov: the names of these luminaries are familiar to everyone, but one need only imagine
Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums
The State Historical Museum has opened the exhibition "Nicholas I. The Ideal Autocrat," marking the 200th anniversary of the accession to the throne of one of the most contradictory monarchs of the Russian Empire. The exhibition presents more than 260 items, including Nicholas I's personal belongings,