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The Museum of Russian Impressionism has a bright, rich exhibition, Other Shores: Russian Art in New York, about the 1924 show that introduced the American public to Konchalovsky, Lentulov, Petrov-Vodkin, Polenov, Yuon, Vasnetsov…

The Museum of Russian Impressionism has a bright, rich exhibition, Other Shores: Russian Art in New York, about the 1924 show that introduced the American public to Konchalovsky, Lentulov, Petrov-Vodkin, Polenov, Yuon, Vasnetsov, Kustodiev, Arkhipov, Larionov, Grabar, Saryan and other outstanding names of Russian art. It was not the

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The Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire Made of Insects, 1842, Presented by an Author from Slovenia to His Colleagues, the Moscow Naturalists

Over the long years the picture has been restored more than once, and by our day all the insects, originally natives of the Illyrian Provinces, have been replaced by insects born, lived and died on Russian soil. One might say that this curious heraldic trinket has, in the end, become

White painted head with a red band on the forehead, dark brows and eyes, red lips and red dots on the cheeks and chin, on a red stand.

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Painted head from Mycenae, 13th century BC, with red headband and rouge

It seems you have gone to bed in your make-up again. Your ceramic head, Mycenae, 13th century BC.

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Have You No Shame Before the Guests, Jupiter!

Have you no shame before the guests, Jupiter! New gods never come to mortals naked. Jupiter, Juno, Minerva. Roman sculptures. Most probably grave goods. Weißenburg Roman Museum.

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The morning after the fire at Madame Tussaud's in London in 1925 looks much like the morning after a rave in 2021

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Under any regime, in any weather, in any season, Moscow has one constant: the queues at the Tretyakov Gallery

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Disputed attribution of Poussin’s “The Education of Bacchus” in the Louvre and London

How many summers, how many winters: a heartfelt reunion of brothers-in-arms. Embracing infants from Nicolas Poussin's painting "The Nurture of Bacchus" in the Louvre collection. The canvas is currently undergoing restoration, which is a good moment to recall the dispute over its attribution: the

Close-up of a stone mask with empty eye sockets, a long nose and an open mouth with carved teeth.

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Neolithic stone masks from the Judean Desert, 9,000 years old

With empty eye sockets and gaping mouths: not guests of Mutabor, but Neolithic masks from the Judean Desert. These 9,000-year-old artefacts are carved from limestone and served a ritual purpose, embodying the spirits of ancestors

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Pablo Picasso's 86-year-old daughter Maya Picasso-Widmaier (68-year-old Brigitte Macron stands beside her, please do not confuse the two) has presented her father's museum with a number of memorial items and 6 of his works, including this portrait, in whi

It must be said, a very good likeness: you have scarcely changed, my dear

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Cosmoscow Anecdotes

Maxim Boxer asks: how much is this Shelkovsky? The reply: the work is not for sale, it is a museum exhibit, you are at the stand of the Multimedia Art Museum. A pity

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Gorod Ustinov microterritory presents TEKTO installation with collections from Apatity

Andrey Malakhov is the first to see the new project of the micro-territory "City of Ustinov". This year the residents of the micro-territory are presenting a platform for cultural exchange, "Museum with Delivery". The museum can be seen at the stand of the Siyanie

Faith · Art · London · Monarchies · Museums

Angels in lapis-lazuli robes and white chaplets of roses, gathered about the Virgin and Christ Child on the right-hand panel of the Wilton Diptych, the celebrated monument of Gothic panel painting of the late fourteenth century, have become a riddle for a

The principal explanations come down to the personal iconography of King Richard II, who is himself portrayed kneeling on the left-hand panel with his patron saints John the Baptist, Edward the Confessor and Edmund the Martyr. Eleven was the number of gold coins that Richard offered to the Virgin