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A woman should be 70% devoted to the care of her knight and 30% beauty
That is precisely why, in the painting by Pierre-Auguste Vafflard in the museum at Évreux, the girl carries her beloved in her arms, and not the other way round. According to the painter's tedious version, the bridegroom has died, and the bride is kissing his weightless ghost.
Archaeology · Art · Museums
In the Middle Ages the head of Vespasian was hollowed out from within and used as a basin for water, the drain being made by knocking a hole through the ear
From the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Farnese collection
The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · People
Ivan Andreyev's 1939 bust of Zhambyl Zhabayev at an exhibition in the New Tretyakov Gallery
Beloved Jambul. Bust of the Kazakh akyn Zhambyl Zhabayev, red sandstone, by the sculptor Ivan Andreyev, 1939. From the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" at the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. Andreyev was a pupil of Iosif Chaikov and Alexander Matveyev,
Faith · Art · Museums
Saint Margaret and the demon in dragon form in a painting with the Virgin Mary and Louis IX
An Incredibly Terrifying Dragon in a New Painting by an Unknown Artist in the National Gallery Collection. The Virgin and Child sit enthroned, the throne adorned with a tapestry of double-headed eagles. Beside them stand Saint Louis IX of France and Saint Margaret, astride a monster. According to tradition,
Coming Up · Books · Museums
With one of the country's principal theatrical events drawing near, the Melikhovo Spring International Festival, which this year runs from 23 May to 1 June at the Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Museum-Reserve "Melikhovo", has gathered for you…
"Uncle Vanya". "Theatre Ark in Dubrava" Drama Theatre (Sergiev Posad). This play by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is more than a hundred years old. The company behind the production asked itself: "Who are these people, Chekhov's heroes, now, in the 21st century?" "
Archaeology · Archive · The East · Books · London · Museums · Observations · Ethnography
Inflated skins in Assyria and on the Pamirs in the accounts of Zarubin and Bobrinsky
I am reading the diary of Professor Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin about his journey to the Pamirs in the summer of 1914. He describes sailing down a mountain river on a raft made of inflated goatskins. It brought to mind the Neo-Assyrian relief of the 8th century BC from the
NB! · London · Museums · Palaeontology · Humour
A model of a mammoth is kept at the Natural History Museum in London
London's Natural History Museum houses the most charming mammoth of all times and peoples. A model, not the real thing
NB! · Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Paris
At the Museum of Moscow's new exhibition "Between Paris and Moscow", I particularly recommend the sculptures of Sergei Koltsov, author of the sketches for the sculptural figures on the building of the Lenin Library
Architecture · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Paris
Four books on the Russian avant-garde, from the 1981 exhibition catalogue to Chernikhov
Yury Avvakumov, Russian architect, populariser of the concept of paper architecture, artist who has represented Russia three times at the Venice Biennale, and researcher who has worked for many years with the legacy of the Russian avant-garde and the them. The catalogue of the exhibition "Moscow-Paris. 1900-
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Science
Contemporary philosophers and art theorists are actively discussing the creative output of neural networks and artificial intelligence, from rethinking authorship and the creative process, calling AI a co-author, to debates about the authentic…
Most philosophers agree that AI is merely a tool and one of the extensions of the human mind, and art historians, curators and artists are not standing aside from these reflections either. One answer is the exhibition "Humans and Neural Networks: Who Creates Whom?", which opened this week
Archaeology · Museums · Rome
A Two-Headed Snake Bracelet from One of the Most Elegant Houses in Pompeii Is Adorned with a Disc Depicting the Moon Goddess Luna/Selene, Wearing a Crescent Diadem and Surrounded by Seven Stars, Her Head Covered with a Crescent-Shaped Veil
The bracelet was so astonishing a find that the place where it was discovered came to be called the House of the Golden Bracelet. It was found on the arm of a woman who, apparently, had tried to escape the catastrophe by flight. Another fugitive was carrying caskets of gold