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Aristocracy · Art · Museums
If one had to express all the ideas of the Baroque in a single image, this photograph would serve: a swaddled pearl infant, covered with a pearl blanket, in a cradle of gold filigree with silk trimming and pearl inlay
A masterpiece of the jewellers of the 17th century (the infant's face is even engraved on the pearl) was intended as a gift for the last representative of the House of Medici, Maria Luisa, wife of Elector Johann Wilhelm of the House of Wittelsbach, who was expected to
NB! · The East · Art · Museums
The Louvre Abu Dhabi Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary, and the Public Is at Last Shown the Museum's Generous Gift: Leonardo da Vinci's Masterpiece "John the Baptist"
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and the public has at last been shown the generous gift the museum has received: Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "John the Baptist". The painting, dating from the early sixteenth century, has passed from the Louvre in Paris
The East · Art · Museums
Alexander of Macedon and Darius III at the Battle of Issus in Altdorfer's Painting
The Battle of Issus between the armies of Alexander the Great and the Persian King Darius III. A painting by Albrecht Altdorfer of the early sixteenth century. Alexander won this battle, which opened the way for his further conquests. The inscription on the tablet at the top of the painting
NB! · The East · Museums · Ethnography
Children's boots with gold embroidery like these were one of the most popular Bukharan export goods of the nineteenth century
Faith · Art · Museums
Unknown 17th-century French painter known as the Master of Processions
The Flagellation of Christ, a painting by the Master of the Processions, sold only recently for more than 160,000 euros. The Master of the Processions is the conventional name of an unknown French painter of the mid-seventeenth century. At various times some of this artist's pictures
NB! · Architecture · The East · Art · Museums · Observations
Painted ceiling of a hall in the Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan
In the Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan, a single room is enough to fall irrevocably in love. No exhibits, guided tours or wall labels are required: just lift your head
Art · Museums · Humour
Statuette of a Bear as a Hunter from the Inverted World Series, 1580/81, Vienna
When Someone Makes Advances on Your Beehive. Bear in the guise of a hunter, 1580/81. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna A figurine from the World Turned Upside Down series.
NB! · Art · Museums · New York
Aphrodite, 1st-2nd century AD
Aphrodite, 1st-2nd century AD. Roman sculpture. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Art · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Lukian Popov depicted army conscription during the Russo-Japanese War
Mobilised (Taken), 1904. Conscription into the army during the Russo-Japanese War. Lukian Vasilyevich Popov. Collection of the State Russian Museum
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Humour
In the Secret Cabinet of the Naples Museum there is a depiction of a Pompeian fresco in which a satyr creeps up on a sleeping nymph, discovers that it is a hermaphrodite, and promptly tries to flee in horror, while the two-sexed object of his desire tries
Architecture · Art · Monarchies · Museums
Maurizio Cattelan's suspended horse, the 1997 work “Novecento” at the Rivoli museum
Anyone who has been to Turin cannot fail to remember the horse suspended from the dome of the former residence of the House of Savoy at Rivoli, which has housed a museum of contemporary art since 1984. Quite literally the subject of a nature morte, a still life, it is