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A Stunning Picture!
A stunning picture! “Mont Blanc, Vue de la Serpe. Storm Effect”. Théodore Rousseau, 1834. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
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NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Museums
A Crystal Reliquary in the Shape of a Fish on Legs, for the Relics of Mary Magdalene: Egyptian Work of the Sixteenth Century
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New Jerusalem Museum opens “Master Repin”, an exhibition on Ilya Repin as a teacher
“When looking over the work of his pupils he spoke for the most part abruptly, in short phrases: ‘The head is too small’, ‘The hand is drawn wrongly’... Why too small, why wrongly, Repin usually did not explain, but demanded that his pupils grasp it for themselves. Yet at times
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Monarchies · Museums
Head of Tutankhamun, c. 1336–1327 BC
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An Italian Potpourri at the Pushkin Museum
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The Pushkin Museum's Italian Courtyard in Bloom
A very lively and life-affirming exhibition has opened: "Flowers, Fruit and Musical Instruments in Italian Baroque Painting"
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The Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers, the better to keep watch over the Rijksmuseum, his beloved brainchild, even after his death, hid a sculpted portrait of himself on the wall of one of the towers on the Museumplein side
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Antinous's Magnificent Hairdo
Antinous's magnificent hairdo. A Renaissance bronze after an antique original. Archaeological Museum, Florence
Art · Moscow · Museums
Priam Begging Achilles for the Body of Hector
Alexander Ivanov, 1824. Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery
Archaeology · Art · Museums
Etruscan pink sarcophagus of the 4th century BC in the Archaeological Museum of Florence
Pink sarcophagus. 4th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Florence. The Etruscan women knew a thing or two about colour
Faith · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Throne chair of Paul I as Grand Master of the Maltese Order, designed by Quarenghi
The throne chair of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, with an embroidered Maltese cross on its back, made for Paul I in 1799-1800 to a design by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi. Paul I was elected Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Ilya Repin painted “Job and His Friends” in 1869, depicting the biblical righteous man
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. And that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.. The story of Job, one of the greatest of the righteous, has drawn many artists, but one of the most piercing illustrations