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Mary Magdalene in the Desert
The painting was executed in 1886 by Emmanuel Benner. Collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
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The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "A Feat of Enlightened Philanthropy" for the 150th anniversary of the Central School of Technical Drawing, founded by Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz (1814-1884), the greatest Russian banker of his age, who fi
The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "A Feat of Enlightened Philanthropy" for the 150th anniversary of the Central School of Technical Drawing, founded by Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz (1814-1884), the greatest Russian banker of his age, who financed the state loans for the Crimean War and the
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Rome
Vatican Museums announce five-year restoration of Raphael's Loggia
This is the first serious cleaning in more than 500 years of the frescoes of the glazed corridor on the second floor of the Apostolic Palace, overlooking the Cortile di San Damaso. The budget for the works is 5.5 million dollars. In addition to restoration, the paintings will be
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Processional crucifix by an Umbrian painter of 1260–1270 in the Vatican Pinacoteca
Processional Crucifix painted by an Umbrian artist, 1260–1270. Vatican Pinacoteca
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Elizaveta Zvantseva's art school exhibition at the Museum of Russian Impressionism to 4 October
In the house at 35 Tavricheskaya, one floor below Vyacheslav Ivanov's "Tower", where all Symbolist Petersburg gathered on Wednesdays, a drawing school operated from 1906. The school was founded by Elizaveta Zvantseva, a pupil of Repin and Serov. By the turn of the century the Academy
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Discovery of mammoth skeletons on Count Golovkin's estate in the Sumy region in 1839
The World's First Monument to a Mammoth Was Erected in 1841 in the Village of Kuleshovka. The inscription on the pedestal reads: This extraordinary rarity was discovered in the presence of the proprietor, Chief Chamberlain Count Yu. A. Golovkin The memorial commemorates a mammoth skeleton found on this
Archaeology · Faith · Museums
Second-century Greek curse tablet with Egyptian symbols found in a well in Heerlen
A lead curse tablet, or defixio, written in Ancient Greek and designed in the Egyptian manner, with a group of magical signs meant to carry its request to the powers of the other world. The tablet names two men and two women, who may equally be the cursed or the
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"Venus and Cupid" by Peter Paul Rubens, painted in 1606-1611 under the impression of the same subject as executed by Titian
Collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid
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Jan Gossaert's 1508 journey to Rome and his four surviving Roman drawings
The outstanding Netherlandish painter and draughtsman of the 15th and 16th centuries Jan Gossaert, also known as Mabuse or Johannes Malbodius, travelled to Rome in the autumn of 1508 in the retinue of Philip of Burgundy. Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, had sent Philip as ambassador to Pope
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This week's five exhibitions on time, and on how the living and the man-made deceive it
This week's five exhibitions are about time, and about how the living and the man-made deceive it. There is an artistic dynasty across four generations, newsreel film that stopped the moment, the faces of the theatre, deception as an engine of evolution and, to make up the
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Court of Appeal in Rio de Janeiro orders former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro Fabio Szwarcwald to pay the museum 100,000 reais for disclosing that it had gone 16 years without fire insurance
Szwarcwald ran the museum from 2020 to 2022 and left soon after his public statement. Insurance and other major expenditure are the responsibility of the museum's board, so this is in effect a story of a confrontation between a salaried director, who had embarked on modernisation, and his
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Fendi to show Maria Grazia Chiuri's couture at Rome's GNAM gallery on 9 July
On 9 July Fendi will show its first couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, who moved from Dior last October. The venue is not Paris but Rome's National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the GNAM. The gallery building itself is a former seventeenth-century monastery of the