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The Italo-Swiss street artist Andrea Ravo Mattoni says that the aim of his work is to link classical painting with the urban space, to join past and present and, closer to the point, to bring art hidden away in halls and…

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Stalin in 1918

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Albert Einstein Playing the Violin, 1941

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Arseny Tarkovsky’s poem “In the Middle of the World” about man between infusoria and the stars

In the Middle of the World. Arseny Tarkovsky I am a man, I am in the middle of the world, Behind me are myriads of infusoria, Before me are myriads of stars. I have lain down between them at my full height, Two shores joined by the sea, A bridge

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The Impeccable Style of Jacques Cathelineau, First Generalissimo of the Catholic and Royal Army, Who Stood Against the Revolutionary Forces in the Vendée Uprising in France in the 1790s

Today we remember the martyrdom of a linen dealer who headed a counter-revolutionary revolt, took the town of Cholet five days later, and was soon elected commander-in-chief of the Catholic and Royal forces.

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Queen Elizabeth II is among the few monarchs in whose veins runs the blood of the Prophet Muhammad

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Kira Muratova, Getting to Know the Big Wide World, 1980

Watercolour landscape with a wooded slope, a glacier in the foreground and rocky peaks under a cloudy sky.

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William Turner's sketches from his 1802 journey through the Swiss Alps

William Turner's sketches made on his journey through the Swiss Alps in 1802. I should like to compare our impressions and visit the place in 2022.

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The unheard-of and barbarous treatment which the King inflicts upon me obliges me to leave France and withdraw to Venice […] If His Royal Highness wished it, I should have the honour of speaking with him, I should tell him many things which, I am sure, wo

The unheard-of and barbarous treatment which the King inflicts upon me obliges me to leave France and withdraw to Venice […] If His Royal Highness wished it, I should have the honour of speaking with him, I should tell him many things which, I am sure, would afford him infinite

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Marc Chagall’s “The Bride” in Roger Michell’s 1999 film “Notting Hill”

In honour of Marc Chagall's birthday, I want to recall the appearance of his painting "The Bride" in one of the most sentimental and, incidentally, highest-grossing of English films: Roger Michell's "Notting Hill" of 1999. The Chagall reproduction in William Thacker&

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Richard Feynman at His Famous Lectures on Physics

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When Tarkovsky, the cinematographer Yusov and I had only just begun work on the film "Solaris", we managed to see a new film: Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"

When Tarkovsky, the cinematographer Yusov and I had only just begun work on the film "Solaris", we managed to see a new film: Stanley Kubrick's "A Space Odyssey". We wanted to do something directly opposite. Recalled by Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin (1940–2012), production designer