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Marie Antoinette's knitting needles are kept at the Conciergerie museum in Paris

Marie Antoinette's knitting needles in the Conciergerie museum, a former prison in the very heart of Paris. Marie Antoinette was fond of various kinds of needlework, knitting among them. It is known that, while in confinement, the Queen of France tried to carry on with her knitting in

London · Monarchies · Museums · Mores

Napoleon's travelling carriages after Waterloo and the replica bought by Lord Byron

Since we are speaking of the good life today, here is an episode on the love of travelling in comfort. When Napoleon retreated after the defeat at Waterloo, before the headlong onslaught of the Prussian army, he was obliged to abandon his carriage, drawn by six horses, at the little

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An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Marko

An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Markova. The painting, which was considered lost

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At the Manege, on a very high level, runs the exhibition "Viktor Tsoi

At the Manege, on a very high level, runs the exhibition "Viktor Tsoi. The Hero's Path", with a beautiful audiovisual narrative about the life and work of the poet. The exhibition includes personal belongings, recordings, drawings and artefacts. Serious research has gone into it. I was

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Last year the Prado Museum reattributed the painting "The Colossus" as a work by Francisco Goya of 1808-12

Last year the Prado Museum reattributed the painting "The Colossus" as a work by Francisco Goya of 1808-12. A naked giant with a clenched fist, standing before a field of scattering people, may, in the view of art historians, symbolise the struggle against Napoleon's army.

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Once again, taking this reconstruction of the original appearance of the 2nd-century AD Tauroctony from the British Museum as my example, I am convinced that ancient sculptures, in any present-day state and in any artist's rendering, lose very badly when

Once again, taking this reconstruction of the original appearance of the 2nd-century AD Tauroctony from the British Museum as my example, I am convinced that ancient sculptures, in any present-day state and in any artist's rendering, lose very badly when painted, which is meant to restore

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And Why Did the Museum Attendants Start Shouting TIME, GENTLEMEN, PLEASE?

Art · Cinema · Moscow · Museums

A Remarkable Discovery!

A remarkable discovery! One of the opening scenes of Sergei Parajanov's comedy "The First Lad" repeats, down to the last detail, Tatyana Yablonskaya's famous painting "Bread". The composition, the placing of the figures, the colour scheme, even the blue hem tucked up

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Rubens's painting of the transfer of the regency to Marie de' Medici in 1610

Louis XIII is nine years old in this painting and exactly half the height of his parents, but how elegantly the boy is dressed! The painting by Peter Paul Rubens is entitled "The Preparation of the King for the War in Germany, or the Transfer of the Regency to

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Rioters broke into a museum in Almaty, but the exhibits were left untouched

In Almaty, an attack has been carried out on the Kasteyev Art Museum, the largest in Kazakhstan and one of the biggest in the Asian region. The priceless collection, which includes works by Dürer, Savrasov, Repin, Konchalovsky, Saryan, Sidorkin and Khludov, remains intact. In the photograph: the halls of the

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Odalisque by François Boucher, 1745, the Louvre

Odalisque by François Boucher, 1745, the Louvre. This is what the mistresses of Louis XV looked like

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The Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, home to works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Claude (Gellée) and Van Dyck, will show canvases by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few women artists of her time to win renown

The Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, home to works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Claude (Gellée) and Van Dyck, will show canvases by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few women artists of her time to win renown. The Italian painter enjoyed the patronage of Charles I,