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Pasted-over pages in books at the Akhmatova Museum and her poems about Stalin

The Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House holds collections of verse with pasted-over pages. It is reported that Akhmatova herself pasted these pages shut. What is beneath? Akhmatova's poems about Stalin. It is believed that Anna Andreyevna was compelled to write them in order to help her

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Russian translation of Michael Finkel’s “The Museum Thief” on Stefan Breitwieser published

A Russian translation of journalist Michael Finkel's book "The Art Thief" has been published. Two years ago it became a bestseller in the United States. Its hero is Stéphane Breitwieser, a young Frenchman with neither education nor profession, who between 1995 and 2001 stole more than

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Giorgione's Judith and Vladimir Petrovich Kozin's Judith

Photograph from the series "Domestic History of ISKVA. Photo Performance", 1999 In a kitchen, beside the stove, a man lies on his back; above him stands a woman, her left foot planted on the man's head. In her left hand is a white stick. Museum "

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Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once

Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once. The picture has been ascribed to Domenico Mancini and to Domenico

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Madonna and Child in a Landscape and Judith in Room 217 of the Great Hermitage

Works by Giorgione that can be seen in the Hermitage:. 📌 Madonna and Child in a Landscape, circa 1503. Acquired in 1817 from the Creighton collection in Saint Petersburg. On display in Room 217 of the Large Hermitage. One of the painter's early works 📌 Judith, 1504. Acquired in 1772

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Vasari's biography of Giorgione, his date of death and the disputed self-portraits

Labouring for the glory of himself and his fatherland, and forever moving in society to divert his many friends with music, he fell in love with a certain lady, and the two of them took very great delight in their love. But it so happened that in 1511 she caught

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“The Tempest” by Giorgione, 1507-1508, regarded as the first landscape in the history of painting

A Small Landscape on Canvas with a Storm, a Gypsy Woman and a Soldier. Or, to be more precise, Giorgione's "The Tempest", 1507-1508. In essence, what we have before us is the first landscape in the history of painting. Yes, yes, exactly so. Giorgione'

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The cuirass of an unfortunate French cavalryman struck by a cannonball at the Battle of Waterloo

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Vessel of rock crystal and gilded silver, with enamel and rubies

Vessel of rock crystal and gilded silver, with enamel and rubies. Work of Dionisio Miseroni, circa 1655. The Miseroni family workshop was founded in 1588 in Prague, under Emperor Rudolf II. Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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The Maharaja of Indore necklace with Colombian emeralds in the Smithsonian collection

The so-called Necklace of the Spanish Inquisition. The name was coined for advertising purposes by the jeweller Harry Winston, who also claimed that this piece, made of Colombian diamonds and emeralds, had belonged to the Spanish royal family. It was acquired by the Maharaja of Indore and subsequently took

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Cupid and Psyche, 4th century AD, Ostia Antica

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Paul Poiret as an artist and creator of fashion's visual world at an exhibition in Paris

As promised, I return to my report on this season's fashion exhibitions in Paris. The large retrospective of the work of Paul Poiret will interest not only lovers of the history of costume, but indeed anyone enthralled by fashion and style. The exhibition at the Musée des Arts