Art · Museums · Nature

Twenty-seven flower drawings by Herman Saftleven the Younger for Agneta Block

The delicate flowers of the Dutch Baroque artist Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609-1685) are part of one of his last commissions. Twenty-seven drawings of flowers and plants are known that Saftleven produced at the end of his life for Agneta Block. She commissioned several painters at once to

NB! · Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

The Ceiling of the Grande Galerie at the Louvre Recalled the Elaborately Painted Ceilings of the Ancient Egyptian Art Hall at the Pushkin Museum

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations

“Living Sculptures”, the second exhibition of the “Systems of Mimicry” project at the Az/Art space, curated by Alexander Dashevsky, has gathered works by Igor Shelkovsky, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Vadim Sidur, Pyotr Dyakov, Alexander Ney, Elena…

The exhibition makes one attend to the place of the body in artistic language, to the interpretations of the body in different media, and to the influence that perceptions of corporeality exert on art. It opens with a sketch from a beach in besieged Leningrad, one that, according to the

Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums

The Pushkin Museum Acquires “The Adoration of the Magi” by Otto van Veen, Teacher of Rubens

The Pushkin Museum has acquired the painting "The Adoration of the Magi" by Otto van Veen, one of the greatest Flemish masters of the 17th century and the chief teacher and mentor of Rubens. The painting was executed by the celebrated master in his Antwerp period, around 1600.

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

Rembrandt, Lion Resting, 1645/1650, Louvre collection

Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Exhibition of the 13 group at the Museum of Russian Impressionism, graphic art and painting

The Museum of Russian Impressionism has a very good exhibition of the artists of the rather original and productive group "13", which existed in 1929-1931. The core of the group was Vladimir Milashevsky, Daniil Daran and Nikolai Kuzmin, who worked at the newspaper Gudok and rethought the

Architecture · Books · London · Museums

The circular reading room of the British Museum, home of the British Library until 1997

The British Library building with a dome 45 metres in diameter, built in the 1850s. Or, to be precise, the circular Reading Room of the British Museum, with iron bookshelves running round its perimeter. The total length of the Reading Room's shelving is 25 kilometres. A considerable area

NB! · Monarchies · Museums · Humour

Prince William and Kate at the Kraków wax museum are, on the whole, indistinguishable from the real thing

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Exhibition “Zverev/Mikhnov-Voitenko” at the AZ Museum and a film about the Leningrad artist

"My painting does not depict an event, it is an event" - Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko. The exhibition "Zverev/Mikhnov-Voitenko. A Second Multiplied by Eternity" at the AZ Museum. When you come to the exhibition, be sure to watch the film about the artist on the 3rd

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Memento mori figurine of Louis XIV

A woman in a work apron in a workshop tends the hair on a model of an elephant calf with a raised trunk, standing on a wooden pallet.

NB! · Museums · New York · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour

Model of a calf of an extinct pygmy elephant at the American Museum of Natural History

The enchanting model of a dwarf elephant calf at the American Museum of Natural History is one of the sweetest things ever made by the exhibition department of any museum whatsoever. The calf is no larger than a pet dog, while the adult of this extinct species stood a mere

Coming Up · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome

Reconstructed statue of a seated emperor at the Recycling Beauty exhibition in Milan

Until the end of 2025, a 13-metre copy of the ancient Colossus of Constantine, which once stood in the apse of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum, can be seen in the grounds of the Villa Caffarelli, part of the Capitoline Museums complex. The reconstructed statue of