Architecture · Museums · Society
The Hermitage's Amsterdam branch is changing its name. From 1 September 2023, the city's third most important museum, after the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum, will reopen as the H’Art Museum. The Amsterdam museum dates back to 2004, when it began as a few
Aristocracy · Art · Museums · Mores
The Tailor Astride a Goat by Johann Joachim Kändler is a rather popular subject in Meissen porcelain of the 18th and 19th centuries. The tailor comes in various versions: sometimes the shears hang from a horn, sometimes they rest on the goat's head, sometimes they are in the
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
A Wind, but Not of Change. Ilya Repin's painting What Freedom! (1903) symbolises, in the critic Stasov's judgement, Russian youth who had not lost their courage, hopes and joyful expectations amid the misfortunes that beset them. By Repin's own account, he was simply walking
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris
The exhibition of Italian masterpieces "Naples in Paris" at the Louvre
NB! · Architecture · Art · Museums · Ethnography
Heddal Museum of Traditional Norwegian Folk Art, a house of 1784 built by Olav Hansen. The walls and ceiling are decorated with the folk painting known as rosemaling
NB! · Coming Up · Cinema · Museums · Paris · Pop Culture
Art · Moscow · Museums · Education
The Pushkin Museum website has an excellent page of lectures and videos about art in sign language, including an account of the main masterpieces in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts collection in International Sign. The section is called "The Pushkin for All"
NB! · The East · Art · Cinema · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Humour
A Kirghiz convict painted by Vasily Perov in 1873 looks exactly like Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Collection of the Russian Museum
Archaeology · Art · Museums
The Chimera of Arezzo, 5th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Florence
Faith · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The poet Apollon Maykov prevents the painter Nikolai Kuznetsov from cutting off the head of the writer Ieronim Yasinsky, while the Symbolist Dmitry Merezhkovsky, in chains, contemplates the proceedings with detachment. 1888, Ilya Repin. This is just what Repin's painting "St Nicholas of Myra Saves Three Innocents
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
Two in a box. My favourite drawing from the exhibition "Degas in Black and White", drawn from the collection of the Department of Prints and Photography of the National Library of France. In all, the exhibition presents 160 rarely shown works by Edgar Degas: etchings, lithographs, drawings in
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Nature
Sandringham House is displaying a replica of Elizabeth II's coronation robe made from plants. Twenty-four florists selected a variety of leaves and blooms so that they could be arranged into a robe and patterns closely resembling the royal originals. Pampas grass, a great many cereal grasses, ferns,