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I saw Mikhail Chernyshov's work in the flesh for the first time at his retrospective at the Alina Pinsky Gallery. The artist, who is represented in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and many major museums around the world, has worked in geometric abstraction since 1959, left the
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To which the countess replied: "Surely you have not lost all your talent?" In the striking portrait in shades of red by Léon Comerre, Jeanne is still an unmarried girl.
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Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry Crown Michelangelo. Casa Buonarroti Museum, Florence. Work by Sigismondo Coccapani, 17th century
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A little fishing in Scotland, skiing in Saint-Moritz: such were the weekends of Coco Chanel, photographed for the February 1931 issue of the magazine l’Art vivant. The photographs are by Germaine Krull, very popular in those years.
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The youngest daughter of the artist Zinaida Serebriakova, Ekaterina (1913-2014), speaks of her childhood, her mother, her family, the flight from Bolshevik Russia, and how she too became an artist and resolved to devote her life to her mother. It is curious that Ekaterina Borisovna recalls the years when
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On 12 June 1817 the German inventor Baron Karl von Drais created the first bicycle, or rather a self-propelled two-wheeled carriage. It looked almost exactly like this specimen of 1820, made of cherry and walnut, from the Kurpfalz Museum in Heidelberg, and weighed about 20 kg. Yes, the
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Elizabeth II is quite an incredible woman. At the age of 95 she stands at the centre of a gathering of the heads of the world's leading states, full of vigour, brisk, cheerful and looking splendid, carrying herself erect, smiling and representing her country with dignity, despite the
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9 June is the feast day of Saint Columba, one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, who lived in the 6th century. By and large, the most important thing you need to know about this much venerated Irish and Scottish saint is this: there exists a written mention of his
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The circumstances of his death remain somewhat unclear: there are reports that the British troopers, in effect assigned to the prince as a guard, were nearby but did not open fire on the Zulus, who were armed with spears and had no armour of any kind. Moreover, the sortie in
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The Death of Prince Napoléon. Paul Joseph Jamin, 1882