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“Reigning Queens” in the pop art style. In the Netherlands, at Het Loo Palace, a series of portraits of women on the throne, created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, has been put on show. At that time four queens headed monarchies: Elizabeth, the United Kingdom; Beatrix, the Netherlands;
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Photograph from the exhibition "Andy Warhol's Queens", which includes a series of portraits of reigning queens
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The final week of the remarkable exhibition "Faith in Yermolayeva" is under way at Galeev Gallery. It is not merely a weighty event from the curatorial point of view, but also an important account of Vera Yermolayeva (1893-1937), whose name, though little known, has become one of
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The Pushkin Museum has put on display an art cabinet (a so-called kunstkast) presented to Stalin in 1949. This year, specialists of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts attributed this piece of furniture: the paintings are by the Antwerp painter Jan van Balen and date from the
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Rafael Romeo Barros reminds us that the most tangerine season of the year is upon us. 1863.
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"The Brazen Serpent" by Fyodor Bruni, from the collection of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, will be on show in Room 9 of the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane from 6 November to 12 May. The painting was last in Moscow in 2003,
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Johann Tischbein is known largely for having painted portraits of his friend Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Before us is one of the most famous portraits of Goethe, by Tischbein himself. The thinker, in the pose of an ancient Roman, has settled on a ruined Egyptian obelisk beneath an ivory-coloured plaid,
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Few people know it, but Émile Zola was a keen photographer. He devoted the last years of his life to this pursuit, creating thousands of remarkable pictures which unquestionably deserve attention as early monuments of the photographic art. Last year the French seaside town of Royan held a large exhibition
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Nicolas Poussin's "The Shepherds of Arcadia" (1637–38) in an advertisement for Lolita Lempicka's men's fragrance. The first thought on seeing this dreadful advertisement: did the collaboration bring the Louvre, which houses Poussin's immortal canvas, enough money to acquire for
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and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, 1984 GES-2, exhibition “Square and Space”