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The Bathroom of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace
The bathroom of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace. Eduard Petrovich Hau, 1850s
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The Cheese Seller, Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)
Collection of the Louvre
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The Olympic Flame in the Louvre
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David in the Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum during the Great Patriotic War
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The 8th “Tolstoy” Theatre Festival at Yasnaya Polyana featured more than 100 events
This weekend the Yasnaya Polyana estate-museum hosted a major cultural event: the eighth "Tolstoy" theatre festival. More than a hundred events took place at 13 open-air venues: plays, concerts, film screenings, lectures, promenade performances and workshops. Now that the sounds of theatre, classical music and cinema
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"Dance at Bougival", Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883
"Dance at Bougival", Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Drive away with all your might the lust of Cupid, or else Venus will possess your blinded soul
The inscription on Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Venus and Cupid" from the Hermitage collection. The painting returned to the permanent display today after restoration. Painted in 1509, Cranach's Venus is the first female nude in the history of German painting, Eve excepted.
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A Basin for Washing Your Eyes After Everything You Have Seen on the Internet, Fifteenth Century
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The tunic of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914
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Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit of 1602 by Juan Sánchez Cotán, the founder of Spanish realism
Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit of 1602 by Juan Sánchez Cotán, the founder of Spanish realism. Can you catch the pleasant whiff of Caravaggism?
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Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, Gustave Courbet, 1857
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Stalin in Hiding
The Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, round one of the corners of the main building