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NB! · Art · Museums · Paris
The Wild Boar
The Wild Boar. By the Florentine sculptor of the seventeenth century Giovanni Battista Foggini. Louvre
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Science
"Rouen Cathedral at Noon (The Portal and the Tour d'Albane)" and "Rouen Cathedral in the Evening"
"Rouen Cathedral at Noon (The Portal and the Tour d'Albane)" and "Rouen Cathedral in the Evening". The Pushkin Museum, exhibition "'Rouen Cathedrals'. A Study of Claude Monet's Paintings from the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts&
NB! · Art · Museums · Paris
Man Created by Prometheus and Brought to Life by Athena
Man Created by Prometheus and Brought to Life by Athena. Ceiling painting in the Louvre. By Jean-Simon Berthélemy and Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1802 and 1826.
Art · Moscow · Museums · Paris
At the Engineering Building of the Tretyakov Gallery: an exhibition of the remarkable Russian artist Alexander Ponomarev, "I Am Mad Only at North-North-West", gathering models of his world-famous works from Venice and Paris, Egypt and Japan, Moscow and…
The exhibition is intimate, yet Ponomarev does not feel cramped in this modest space: his spirit lives in the open expanse of the world's elements and takes form in works whose driving forces are the surface of the sea and the canopy of the sky, the might of
NB! · Art · Madrid · Museums
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch, 1490-1500, detail
Art · Museums · New York
Van Gogh's snowy fields near La Crau, in the Guggenheim Museum in New York
Snowy Landscape, Vincent van Gogh, 1888. Fields in the environs of La Crau, opposite the abbey of Montmajour. One of ten snow-covered landscapes painted by Van Gogh between 1882 and 1889. Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Imperial Parade of the Finland Regiment of the Life Guards, Boris Kustodiev, 1906
Imperial Parade of the Finland Regiment of the Life Guards, Boris Kustodiev, 1906. Hermitage collection. The painting was commissioned by the Finland Regiment of the Life Guards on the occasion of Nicholas II's visit to the regiment and the presentation to it of its colonel-in-chief, the
Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Five El Greco paintings in Russian museums and the history of their arrival
By various estimates, El Greco's surviving painted oeuvre today comprises between 137 and 300 pictures. Russian museums hold only 5 canvases by El Greco: 3 in the Hermitage, 1 in Nizhny Novgorod and 1 in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The first El Greco picture purchased
Faith · Museums · People
The Chains of Patriarch Nikon
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Coming Up · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
Sculpture of Mary Magdalene attributed to Pedro de Mena at the Pushkin Museum exhibition
Saint Mary Magdalene, a wooden sculpture of the 17th century, attributed to the Spaniard Pedro de Mena. Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, “The Spanish Collection. From the Holdings of Russian Museums”, is open until 4 February
Art · Museums
Cassandra as a Sibyl and Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons, in richly decorated costumes
Cassandra and Penthesilea, Heroines of the Trojan War. The prophetic daughter of Priam is presented in the guise of the soothsayer Sibyl, but with a somewhat more majestic bearing and a richer costume. Her headdress with its pointed plume is executed in the Eastern style, and its height signals the