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Diadem of one of the wives of Thutmose III with gazelle heads and rosettes
Diadem of one of the wives of Thutmose III. Style 👌🏼
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How to Store a Costume by Museum Rules: Paper, Micalent and Horizontal Boxes
If you think your clothes deserve museum storage, here is the recipe. Do not forget the large horizontal boxes of museum-grade, acid-free conservation board
Books · Moscow · Museums · People
In this dress in 1936-37 Maria Petrovna Lilina, wife of Konstantin Stanislavsky, played Countess Vronskaya in the Moscow Art Theatre's production of "Anna Karenina"
In this dress in 1936-37 Maria Petrovna Lilina, wife of Konstantin Stanislavsky, played Countess Vronskaya in the Moscow Art Theatre's production of "Anna Karenina". The dress was Lilina's personal property, part of her mother's legacy, brought from Paris in her youth,
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage presents the exhibition “Beauty and Style” on the history of fashion photography
Why does everything most beautiful happen just before New Year? The exhibition “Beauty and Style. A History of Fashion Photography. From the Collection of the Still Art Foundation” at the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Hermitage Museum. It presents the photographers’ own prints by Erwin Blumenfeld, Horst P.
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Science · Society
The Museum of Moscow has a rather successful exhibition, "Take Away the Stuffed Fox", devoted to the local-lore movement and the canon
The Museum of Moscow has a rather successful exhibition, "Take Away the Stuffed Fox", devoted to the local-lore movement and the canon. The organisers declare that the project is meant to dispel "the nostalgic aura around the museum of local lore". Suit yourselves. Many historians
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Garage to host exhibitions of Masterkova, Imhof, Ismailova and Marten
The Garage Museum's Exhibition Plans for 2022 Do, Indeed, Make the Coming Year a Female One. In March a retrospective of Lydia Masterkova (1927–2008) will open, also showing works by Yefrosinya Yermilova-Platova and Eva Levina-Rozengolts. In the photograph by Igor Palmin: Masterkova during preparations for
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Marcel Proust's coat shown at the Carnavalet Museum in Paris for the writer's 150th anniversary
Marcel Proust's fur-collared overcoat. It can be seen at the exhibition marking the writer's 150th anniversary at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris
Museums · Observations · Mores
Faience egg dishes as table decoration in the 18th century in southern European museums
The New Year holidays are coming, and the fussy are preparing to wrinkle their noses at festive suppers of egg and mayonnaise salads. Quite wrongly. In the early modern period eggs were so important an element of the feast that in the 18th century the table was adorned with a
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Mores
Yesterday I witnessed a flagrant incident: a society lady, moreover one connected with the museum community, twice knocked down barriers in a house museum, pushing her way into a roped-off dining room to photograph the furniture at closer range, and after
Yesterday I witnessed a flagrant incident: a society lady, moreover one connected with the museum community, twice knocked down barriers in a house museum, pushing her way into a roped-off dining room to photograph the furniture at closer range, and after brazenly walking into the area cordoned off from
Art · Cinema · Museums · Rome
The painting is part of the display at the Borghese Gallery
Pier Paolo Pasolini was undoubtedly impressed by Caravaggio's Boy with a Basket of Fruit when he shot these frames of Mamma Roma with the young Ettore Garofolo. The painting is on display at the Galleria Borghese
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Vermeer painted The Astronomer and The Geographer in 1668-1669 in the same interior
While you were making a discovery, Vermeer managed to paint two pictures. The pictures are called The Astronomer and The Geographer; they were painted in 1668-1669, and they show one and the same man in one and the same interior, but with different attributes. The Astronomer is in the
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · Rome
A fresco in one of the Raphael Rooms on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican
A fresco in one of the Raphael Rooms on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The fresco of the 1580s in the Hall of Constantine, by Tommaso Laureti, is called the Triumph of Christianity and shows the Crucifix rising on a pedestal above a shattered statue