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The Historical Museum has launched an online project dedicated to Count Alexei Uvarov, scholar, archaeologist, founder of the Moscow Archaeological Society, collector and patron of the arts. Uvarov was the author of the idea of creating the Historical Museum and devoted all his strength and knowledge to the successful realisation
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Camille Claudel's sculpture "The Mature Age" of 1899. The second photograph shows the original version of this work, dating from 1894. The artist's brother, Paul Claudel, described the piece thus: "My sister Camille, imploring, humiliated, on her knees, this superb, this proud woman,
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The Multimedia Art Museum is hosting a major exhibition of Igor Shelkovsky, "Celestial City. The Artist's Studio". Together with the retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery and MAMM, it is the largest exhibition of the master's work. Shelkovsky is one of the outstanding nonconformists, a
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Shostakovich at work. And you, no shirking
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Judith with the Head of Holofernes. Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530. The model for this painting, as for many of Cranach's other works, was Princess Sibylle of Cleves. Cranach had been tutor to her husband, John Frederick, Elector of Saxony. John Frederick is also portrayed in the picture:
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Beauty is the name of something that does not exist, which I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me. The Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa
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On 16 October 1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was beheaded on the Place de la Révolution. In essence, the French Republic has still not acknowledged its crimes against the royal family, and has never reviewed the unjust, shameful trials of the royal family of France
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The mayor of Antwerp, Bart De Wever, is a historian by training, and although he specialised in the Flemish national movement and salutes incorrectly, outside academic life he adores Rome and all things Roman. In the photograph he celebrates his election victory with Roman regalia: a standard with a golden
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The Prime Minister of Singapore in the cabin of an economy-class aircraft, travelling on official business by low-cost carrier. On the one hand, we understand that Lawrence Wong belongs to those politicians who consider themselves representatives of the people rather than rulers of the people. On the other
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I try to write honestly and to be worthy of having my pictures hung in the hallway of a house where Cézanne and Renoir will hang. Renoir called Gustave Caillebotte the Joan of Arc of painting: the scion of a wealthy family, an engineer who gave himself to art without
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Here are two St John the Baptists. One is by Leonardo da Vinci, 1513; the other is by his pupil Salai. According to a popular legend, da Vinci painted John the Baptist from his favourite apprentice, nicknamed Salai. Salai's features, however, are also detected in other works by