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The Art Newspaper Russia Awards for 2024 Presented

The Art Newspaper Russia Awards for 2024 have been presented. The annual ceremony took place in the hall of the Pushkin Theatre, and I congratulate the whole team, the editorial board of the newspaper and, personally, Milena Orlova and Tatiana Sakhokia on this important event in Russian culture. The winners

NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · Humour

It seems that the dog with the human gaze, from Georges de La Tour's portrait of an old man in the Berg Museum, deserves a portrait of its own

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Pope Francis in a bespoke anime haori, presented to him during his visit to Japan in 2019

Faith · Art · Museums · Paris · Saint Petersburg

A Tumbler with a Medallion Commemorating the Victory in the Patriotic War

Saint Petersburg, Imperial Glass Factory, 1810s. Crystal, opal glass, diamond-cut faceting, painting, gilding. «On the day of Holy Easter, 29 March, a thanksgiving service to the Lord God was offered in Paris, on the Place Louis XV, by the Russian clergy, in the presence of the Emperor Alexander, the

NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums

Service with fleurs-de-lis used at the banquet for the coronation of the Comte d'Artois as Charles X Bourbon, King of France, at Reims in 1824

Art · London · Museums · Observations

Titian’s “Allegory of Prudence” in the National Gallery and readings of its three ages

Titian, Allegory of Prudence. The painting is customarily read as a depiction of the three ages of man and the three tenses: past, present and future, a token of the prudence that comes with the years. But who, in that case, are the dog, the lion and the wolf meant

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Feistune of the Eighteenth Century

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Design and contemporary art within the walls of a cultural centre housed in Milan's Palazzo Litta, where Napoleon once stayed

NB! · Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums

Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine

An Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine. Its age: more than 2,500 years

Faith · Art · Museums

Donatello’s “Feast of Herod” in Lille and the Innovative Perspective of the Marble Relief

How Did Donatello Achieve in Marble the Same Effect That Da Vinci Achieved in Oil Painting? Now held in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, the "Feast of Herod" is one of Donatello's greatest masterpieces. The marble version may perhaps yield to the dramatic intensity

Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

Drive out Cupid's lust with all your might, or Venus will seize your blinded soul

The inscription on Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Venus and Cupid" in the Hermitage collection. Cranach's Venus, painted in 1509, is the first female nude in the history of German painting, Eve excepted.

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