Once again, taking this reconstruction of the original appearance of the 2nd-century AD Tauroctony from the British Museum as my example, I am convinced that ancient sculptures, in any present-day state and in any artist's rendering, lose very badly when

Once again, taking this reconstruction of the original appearance of the 2nd-century AD Tauroctony from the British Museum as my example, I am convinced that ancient sculptures, in any present-day state and in any artist's rendering, lose very badly when painted, which is meant to restore to them, as it were, their original full-colour appearance. And it is not a matter of being accustomed to seeing marble as marble, but of the fact that they are usually painted by very mediocre draughtsmen, whereas they were created by superb sculptors

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Once again, taking this reconstruction of the original appearance of the 2nd-century AD Tauroctony from the British Museum as my example, I am convinced that ancient sculptures, in any present-day state and in any artist's rendering, lose very badly when

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s