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Archaeology · Art · Museums · New York
Gold Hellenistic Armlets of the 2nd Century BC from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Hellenistic armlets of the 2nd century BC from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The armlets represent a male and a female figure, a triton and a tritoness, each holding a small winged Eros in their hands. Behind the heads of the tritons are hoops, through which
Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
Just the other day one of the best-known works of Russian art, Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581", was returned to the Tretyakov Gallery after a large-scale restoration that lasted three years
Just the other day one of the best-known works of Russian art, Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581", was returned to the Tretyakov Gallery after a large-scale restoration that lasted three years. I think everyone remembers
Art · Madrid · Museums · Paris
Leonardo's Mona Lisa in the Louvre and a pupil's version in the Prado
Leonardo's Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa of one of his pupils, probably Francesco Melzi (1493-1573) or Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, known by the nickname Salaì (1480-1524). Both paintings were executed at roughly the same time. The first, by da Vinci, hangs in the Louvre.
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Heritage
After the decline of the ancient world, countless masterpieces of art lost their value in the eyes of men
After the decline of the ancient world, countless masterpieces of art lost their value in the eyes of men. Marble sculptures were smashed so that their bases could be used in the foundations of outhouses, and magnificently wrought bronze statues were melted down for scrap. By the fifth and sixth
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Art · Museums
Reliefs of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum, 4th century BC, by four Greek masters, Scopas, Timotheus, Bryaxis and Leochares, depicting the war of the Greeks and the Amazons
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Tony Stark, *Captain America: Civil War*, 2016, and the Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museums, 230s BC
Moscow · Museums · Society
Alcohol Permitted for Sale in Moscow's Non-Federal Museums and Concert Halls
Alcohol has been permitted for sale in Moscow's non-federal museums and concert halls. The sale of alcohol in cultural institutions was already under discussion in 2019. Irina Antonova was still alive then, and she spoke out categorically against it: “This initiative strikes me as incomprehensible, especially in
NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Humour
Officially, this naked 2,500-year-old terracotta fellow from Boeotia is grating cheese, but as a man who has seen far too much contextual advertising, I am convinced that what he holds in his hands is a bar of Soviet household soap
NB! · Art · Museums · Heritage
75 Works by 49 Avant-Garde Artists Return to Russia from South Korea after the Exhibition "Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde: Art of the Revolution", Held in Seoul from 31 December 2021 to 17 April 2022
NB! · Art · Madrid · Museums · Humour
The Subject of Saturn Devouring His Son in Rubens and Goya Compared
Saturn Devouring His Son, as performed by Rubens and Goya. Next to the second, the first looks like an innocent nibble
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Eduard Steinberg, Vasily Chekrygin, Rembrandt and Goya: the Pushkin Museum Opens an Exhibition Uniting Four Names from Different Eras
Eduard Steinberg, Vasily Chekrygin, Rembrandt and Goya: the Pushkin Museum has opened an exhibition uniting these four names from different eras. The finitude of being, the contradictions of worldly foundations and the attainment of eternity are seen through the prism of Rembrandt's sublime etchings and Francisco Goya'