Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome
And although the song most apt to the occasion went "don't lose it and don't break it", the masterpiece by Guido Reni in the Galleria Borghese is called "Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law" The canvas dates from 1620-1625. By
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Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The painting "Bacchus" by Peter Paul Rubens, held in the Hermitage, has been sent for restoration. The work will take about two years and is to be completed in time for the 450th anniversary of the artist's birth. The need for restoration is explained by the
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage
In the night of 24 to 25 January, four valuable archaeological exhibits were stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen (the Netherlands): the Helmet of Coțofenești and three Dacian gold bracelets. All the exhibits had been lent by the National Museum of Romanian History for the exhibition “Dacia: Empire of
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Seeing this early nineteenth-century doll at the Museum of Moscow, I was reminded of the portrait of little Alexandra Tomilova holding a doll, from the collection of the Russian Museum. The artist is Alexander Varnek, 1825
Architecture · Monarchies · Museums · Paris
Usually the Hôtel des Invalides, built to care for veterans of war, is associated with the name of Napoleon, who is buried there. But the Hôtel des Invalides was built by the will of King Louis XIV. This model of the Hôtel des Invalides is precisely the one that lay
Art · Museums · People
"...Before whom amid the Chesme deeps The mass of ships blazed up, And Navarino fell for the first time." So Pushkin wrote of the victories in the Russo-Turkish war won by his great-uncle, Ivan Abramovich Gannibal (1735-1801), the eldest of the 11 children of Abram
Museums · Observations · Society · Paris
A letter from the director of the Louvre to France's Minister of Culture has "leaked" to the press, in which the former complains to the latter about leaks of water, excessive visitor numbers, feeble infrastructure and the strain on the museum caused by e. De Carlo,
Archive · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Humour
The other day a neighbour gave a gathering, and I was due to attend. The children of his kinswoman, a spoilt set of urchins, insisted on going too; their mother brought them raisins and prunes and thought to slip away from them quietly, but Pyotr Markovich (Poltoratsky) stirred them up;
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
A masterly exhibition of Francisco Infante has opened at the New Tretyakov. "Metaphors of Infinity" is a colossal retrospective of Infante's entire oeuvre, from the earliest works to the newest series. What strikes one first is the extraordinary architecture: no walls at all, every work hovers
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