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We all love stories about old men and women who adorn their cottages with the gold of village baroque, turn plain country houses into galleries of the lubok and, with no artistic training whatever, paint vast canvases on themes…

We all love stories about old men and women who adorn their cottages with the gold of village baroque, turn plain country houses into galleries of the lubok and, with no artistic training whatever, paint vast canvases on themes of simple Russian life. These artistic phenomena are usually classed as

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums

Georgy Kizevalter's exhibition “Artist-Collector” opens at MMOMA on 27 July

On 27 July the MMOMA Education Centre at 17 Yermolayevsky Lane will open "Artist-Collector", an exhibition project by Georgy Kizevalter, a representative of Moscow Conceptualism and one of the founders of the art group Collective Actions. Kizevalter works in such media as painting, photography, installation and performance,

Mirror in a gilded frame with a bullet hole and radiating cracks, reflecting a painted arched vault.

NB! · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg

Mirror with a bullet mark in a Hermitage interior

A bullet mark in the mirror. The Hermitage

Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

Rembrandt painting from the Duke de Caderousse collection acquired by Prince Golitsyn

The Return of the Prodigal Son: one of Rembrandt's last paintings, one of the chief masterpieces of the Hermitage and one of the greatest canvases in human history. The painting is most often dated to 1666-1669. But since very little is known about the last years of

NB! · Archive · Art · London · Museums

The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum, 1885

Antique leather armchair on a metal frame with wheels and two side cranks with wooden knobs.

Museums · Paris

Wheeled armchair driven by hand cranks at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris

Wheelchair, 1720s, France. Propelled by turning the handles. Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris

Head of a dog looking upward over a dark brown slope against an ochre, textured background.

Art · Madrid · Museums

Painting of a dog by Francisco Goya, created between 1821 and 1823

The Dog. Francisco Goya, 1821-1823

NB! · Moscow · Museums · Heritage · People

Memorial plaque to Irina Antonova on the house in Maly Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane, where Irina Alexandrovna lived from 1942 to 1982

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Portrait of Peter I in the Uffizi Gallery, painted by Ivan Nikitin (1680-1742), who studied in Venice and Florence

Archaeology · The East · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage

The Great Sphinx lost its nose long before Napoleon, not to a cannon shot

The second great myth about Napoleon, after his short stature, is the story that on Napoleon's orders the Great Sphinx was shot in the face with a cannon and had its nose knocked off. The legend is easily refuted by images of the Sphinx made before Bonaparte was

NB! · Museums · Science

A French Airman's Helmet from the First World War

Art · Moscow · Museums

The Sleeping Princess and the “Dove Book” in the Last Painting of the “Poem of Seven Fairy Tales” Cycle

The poetic and original "Sleeping Princess", completed by Vasnetsov a year before his death, in 1926, is considered one of his finest paintings. The princess has fallen asleep together with the entire sovereign's court; even the bear that was to have danced at her wedding is