NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums

At the Vladey gallery at 14 Neglinnaya Street, an exhibition by Vlad Kulkov / Leonid Tskhe, "The Risk-Taker and the Magus", has opened

Aristocracy · Art · Museums

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in His Gallery in Brussels

David Teniers the Younger, 1650

Art · Moscow · Museums

Voting to Expel a Kulak from the Kolkhoz

Samuil Adlivankin, 1931, State Tretyakov Gallery collection. Photo from the exhibition The Trial: Franz Kafka and the Art of the 20th Century at the Jewish Museum.

Two pairs of blue appliqué pieces shaped like eyebrows and eyes, with small golden pins, on a white background.

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums

Inlaid eyes from ancient Egyptian funerary equipment, usually made with glass and obsidian inserts

Eye-shaped elements of ancient Egyptian funerary furnishings. Such inlaid eyes usually contained glass and obsidian imitations of the pupil and the eyeball

A folding stool with a black seat stands before a white plinth bearing a sculpture of a fallen warrior in a helmet with a sword, against a red museum wall.

NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour

Folding stools for visitors to rest on have appeared in the Pushkin Museum galleries

Mobile chairs for visitors at the Pushkin Museum. So that, having sat down to rest, you need not fret that you have taken someone's workplace

Archaeology · Faith · Museums

Drawing on a tablet with Demeter and Persephone sheds light on the Eleusinian Mysteries

Votive clay plaque of the 4th century BC from the Sanctuary of Eleusis, with four holes at the corners for hanging. The image on the plaque lifts a corner of the veil over the riddle of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Demeter sits on a cista, a chest on legs, beside Persephone,

NB! · Museums · Heritage · Society

UNESCO plans to open a virtual museum of stolen artefacts

Art · Museums · Rome · Saint Petersburg

Elephants in Tiepolo's painting and their use in the Roman army

The strange appearance of the elephants in Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's painting "The Triumph of Manius Curius Dentatus" in the Hermitage is explained by the fact that the artist had never seen the animal and imagined it from written descriptions and eyewitness accounts. With that in mind,

Architecture · Museums · Mores

Medieval towers of Bologna and French cities built for the sake of prestige

A model of Bologna in the 12th and 13th centuries, with its many towers, resembles the high-rise development of modern cities. At the height of its prosperity the city counted as many as 180 tall structures, of which some 20 survive to this day. The tallest of them is

Art · Museums · Paris

Give me your portrait, I'll put it in the larder, so the children don't pinch the sweets

The Artist's Family, Noël Coypel, 1690. From the exhibition of works by Coypel from the Louvre's collection at the Grand Trianon

A huge sundial with a curved metal gnomon and a dark round dial with Roman numerals in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow.

Art · Moscow · Museums

Artist Vladimir Chernyshev to install a sundial in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow

A vast sundial is to be installed in the inner courtyard of the Museum of Moscow by the weekend. The gnomon is of metal, the dial of tarmac. The author of the installation is the artist Vladimir Chernyshev. I shall not venture into the finer points of what this piece

Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums

The Angel with a Nail

From the collection of the Perm State Art Gallery. The exhibition “From Icon to Avant-Garde” at the New Tretyakov Gallery