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Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles fall within mandatory evacuation zone due to fires
The Getty Center and the Getty Villa in Los Angeles have fallen within a mandatory evacuation zone owing to the fires in the city. The museum had earlier described itself as "the safest place for works of art during a fire"
NB! · Art · Museums · Paris
Raphael, Giorgione and Pisanello at the Fondation Custodia
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris · Society Pages
Impressions of a rare exhibition at the Fondation Custodia
Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael at the exhibition of Italian Renaissance graphic masterpieces from the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, closing today at the Fondation Custodia in Paris. It is impossible to see every exhibition there is, and I am usually calm about the openings I
Aristocracy · Museums · Mores · People
Denis Davydov's Golden Toothpick
The Pushkin Museum
Aristocracy · Moscow · Museums · Mores · Saint Petersburg
The Olenin samovar in the Pushkin Museum and the poet's failed courtship of Anna Olenina
A cast-bronze Olenin samovar of the early nineteenth century, with a tap in the form of an eagle's head. The samovar belonged to Alexey Nikolayevich Olenin, President of the Academy of Arts and Director of the Imperial Public Library, whose salon was among the most brilliant in
NB! · Faith · Museums · People
Pushkin's Christening Shirt
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Even "clever" algorithms do not quite grasp that the Pushkin Museum and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts are NOT THE SAME THING
Faith · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The State Historical Museum Begins the First Stage of Restoring a Unique Nineteenth-Century Icon, "The Saviour of Smolensk with Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn Kneeling", from Saint Basil's Cathedral
The State Historical Museum has begun the first stage of restoring a unique nineteenth-century icon, "The Saviour of Smolensk with Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn Kneeling", from Saint Basil's Cathedral. The icon has been handed over to the Grabar restoration workshops. The
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums
The Bracelet of Ramesses II with Ducks
Monarchies · Moscow · Museums · Mores
A beard badge confirmed payment for exemption from shaving under the 1698 decree
The Famous Beard Token, or a Metal Receipt for the Tax on Wearing a Beard in the Time of Peter I. The compulsory shaving of beards, confirmed by a decree of 1698, did not apply to men who paid, depending on their estate, from 30 to 600 roubles a year.
Art · Moscow · Museums
The Fire of Moscow in 1812, Unknown Artist
Collection of the Museum of Moscow