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The first building of the museum quarter of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

The first building of the museum quarter of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is planned to open in autumn 2026. "At the end of next year they will begin handing over the first buildings to us. This will be the building of the depository and restoration complex,

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Caravaggio's Boy with a Basket of Fruit at the Musée Jacquemart-André, on tour with the masterpieces of the Galleria Borghese

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Spain identifies 5,126 items confiscated from private collections after the Civil War

Spain's Ministry of Culture Returns to Their Historical Owners Works of Art Seized by the Franco Regime. The ministry has identified 5,126 such items, including paintings, sculptures, books and jewellery, which after the civil war of 1936–1939 were confiscated from private collections and handed over to

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Tobias and the Archangel Raphael in Filippino Lippi's Painting and in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Tobias and the Angel, Filippino Lippi, 1475-80, Florence. The walk of Tobias with the Archangel Raphael is the central subject of the Old Testament Book of Tobit. The youth and the Angel go hand in hand, their fair heads inclined towards each other, while a slightly unsteady pose betrays

Autumn mountain landscape with a river in the valley, bare trees and herdsmen driving cattle down a slope under dark clouds.

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Pieter Bruegel's “The Return of the Herd” of 1565 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna collection

The Return of the Herd. Autumn. Pieter Bruegel, 1565. Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581" returns to the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery, where an exhibition devoted to its large-scale restoration will open

The project is called "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. The Return". The display will include, among other things, studies and sketches reflecting the artist's long search for the composition, the types and the historical details. Archive documents will show the chronicle of the first

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A winter trip to Boldino and the reconstruction of the Pushkin museum-reserve

Having travelled across almost the whole of Russia in recent years, I set foot on the soil of Boldino, to my own surprise, only this winter. And if we pass over a lengthy description of the protected places of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, where the silence laughs handsomely at the

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Exhibition to include paintings, porcelain, furniture and panels from Lomonosov's Ust-Ruditsa factory

Tomorrow the State Hermitage will open new halls of its permanent display “The Gallery of Peter the Great”, devoted to the era of the Empresses Anna Ioannovna and Elizabeth Petrovna and to the development of Russian art and culture during their reigns. The display includes paintings, jewellery, porcelain, smalt and

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The Hermitage opens an exhibition on mythical monsters of Antiquity and their conquerors

The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "…Look into the Eyes of Monsters…": Mythical Personifications of Terror in Antiquity and Their Conquerors. Its heroes are the dreadful creatures of mythology, the monsters and chimeras that symbolised the fears surrounding the ancient Greeks and found vivid embodiment in the art

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Direct messages, when you are the curator of the Field of Miracles museum

White horses with riders in dark cloaks and haloes gallop through mist before pink churches and a tower beside a forest.

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Mikhail Nesterov’s painting “Horsemen (Legend)” of 1932 in the Theological Academy collection, Trinity Sergius Posad

Mikhail Nesterov. Horsemen (Legend). 1932. Church Archaeology Cabinet of the Theological Academy, Trinity Lavra of St Sergius, Sergiev Posad, Russia

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