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Carel Fabritius, pupil of Rembrandt, killed in the 1654 explosion of gunpowder stores in Delft
Self-portrait of Carel Fabritius, founder of the Delft school of painting, killed on this day in 1654 in the monstrous explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Delft, where he had settled four years before his death. The artist lived to be only 32, yet managed to win renown as
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Probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", then banned in the United States: Paul Cadmus's "Jerry"
Paul Cadmus's painting "Jerry" is probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", which was at that time banned in the United States. The portrait of the artist Jared French (1905-1988), by his lover Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), was painted during
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Hypertrophied sexuality, a homoeroticism that pervades every sphere of life, drunken revels, debauchery, primitive amusements, a satirical view of the vices of society, the new America in all its colours: all this found expression in the work of…
Hypertrophied sexuality, a homoeroticism that pervades every sphere of life, drunken revels, debauchery, primitive amusements, a satirical view of the vices of society, the new America in all its colours: all this found expression in the work of Paul Cadmus, who painted in egg tempera, inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
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In the 1930s a scandal broke out in the USA over the depiction of sailors in Paul Cadmus's painting The Fleet's In, which became the subject of official proceedings after Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman found the canvas, with its drunken and carousing sailors…
In the 1930s a scandal broke out in the USA over the depiction of sailors in Paul Cadmus's painting The Fleet's In. It became the subject of official proceedings after the retired Admiral Hugh Rodman found the canvas, with its drunken and carousing sailors, insulting to
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Solzhenitsyn's 1970 Nobel Prize and two Time covers before he received it
On 8 October 1970 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Alexandr Isayevich would receive the prize itself only in December 1974, after his expulsion from the Soviet Union. It is
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There is a memory of Lilya Brik, recorded by the poetess Anna Said-Shah, from when Brik was 86
There is a memory of Lilya Brik, recorded by the poetess Anna Said-Shah, from when Brik was 86. An Italian journalist who was visiting her at Peredelkino asked why she went to France rather than to Italy, which was every bit as good. Lilya replied that in Italy people
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Allegorical paintings by the German artist Hans Thoma (1839–1924) depicting celestial bodies and cosmic objects in images drawn from ancient myths, European legends and Norse sagas: Mercury, Venus, the Sun, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter…
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The French Pantheon once saw a joint burial, connected with the first woman admitted to that mausoleum, Sophie Berthelot, who in the scale of French history was remarkable only for being the faithful wife of the outstanding French physicist and chemist…
The French Pantheon once saw a joint burial, connected with the first woman admitted to that mausoleum, Sophie Berthelot, who in the scale of French history was remarkable only for being the faithful wife of the outstanding French physicist and chemist Pierre Marcellin Berthelot, familiar to us at least from
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Arthur Rimbaud in his bed after Paul Verlaine shot him with a revolver
Arthur Rimbaud in his bed after Paul Verlaine shot him with a revolver. A painting by Jef Rosman. And the very revolver with which Verlaine tried to shoot his lover was sold in 2016 for €430,000.
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Alla Demidova came incognito to an evening in her honour on her birthday
The incomparable Alla Demidova appeared incognito at an evening in her own honour on her birthday. Alla Sergeyevna slipped quietly into the auditorium while Sergey Nikolayevich was speaking of her Phèdre and her Ranevskaya, and Pavel Kaplevich was telling how he had mixed up Vera Vasilyeva with Yekaterina Vasilyeva. For
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