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Young Authors' Fair to Present More Than 200 Works by 47 Artists

From 1 to 3 December, the second TUPIK contemporary art fair will take place at the ART4 Museum, 4 Khlynovsky Tupik. This is a fair of a new kind, where every artist appears as an independent author. The project arose as a way of bringing young authors together and supporting

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Cholera aboard the Melpomene at Toulon in 1833 in Giono's novel and Vernet's painting

In the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille hangs Horace Vernet's "Cholera on Board the Melpomene", painted in 1835 for the Board of Health, which had been assembling a collection on the theme of epidemics for its council chamber since the 1730s. The events aboard the

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The Zotov Centre Marks Its First Birthday with a Splendid Exhibition

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Poems by Alexei Kruchenykh

Illustration by Olga Rozanova Shown at the Zotov Centre at the exhibition "Presnya: An Exhibition of My Memory", marking the anniversary of the centre's founding ❤️

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Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau, 1864. On the road to Thebes, Oedipus met the Sphinx and had to solve her riddle: “What walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon and on three in the evening?”

Icon detail: a large hand on a red ground, with five small figures in white garments standing in its palm.

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Souls of the Righteous in the Hand of God on a 16th-Century “Last Judgement” Icon from Solvychegodsk

The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God. Icon of the Last Judgement, 16th century, from the Annunciation Cathedral in the town of Solvychegodsk.

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An authentic dress of Empress Josephine and her portraits in a similar guise

A sculpture shaped like a cabbage head on two bird legs stands in a museum display case on a green table.

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Claude Lalanne's 1976 cabbage on chicken legs at the Museum of Fine Arts in Agen

Cabbage on Chicken Legs. Claude Lalanne, 1976. Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen, Aquitaine, France

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The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great in Constantinople

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Stichting Ambulance Wens Nederland fulfils the last wishes of dying people

A dying woman asked to see a Rembrandt before the end. This happened in Amsterdam in 2015, and it was not an isolated case: several other gravely ill patients in the city's hospitals asked to be shown "The Night Watch" and the Rembrandt exhibition. The chance

A dark interior with a spiral staircase, an old man seated by a lit window and a second figure at a fire on the right.

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Rembrandt's Painting of 1632 from the Louvre Collection

Philosopher in Meditation. Rembrandt, 1632. Louvre collection

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Landscapes by Nikolai Vladimirovich Stahl von Holstein, French abstract painter of Russian origin, son of a general of the Russian army

Landscapes by Nikolai Vladimirovich Stahl von Holstein, French abstract painter of Russian origin, son of a general of the Russian army. He is better known as Nicolas de Staël. Collection of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris