Articles in English

The city authorities intend to abandon the gas lamps — the legacy of Victorian England.

European portrait painting of the 18th century is an already established genre. However, in the meantime, samples are born in America that amaze with a deficient skill level. The faces of the depicted are devoid of volume, and their bodies are anatomically disproportionate.

There are about 119 monuments of architectural heritage in Kimry. Of particular interest among them are wooden buildings in the Art Nouveau style

Michael Sittow is a unique and outstanding artist who worked on the second half of the XV - the first third of the XVI century. He was born in Reval, and his family was closely related to art, so his future fate was predestined in many ways already from his childhood. In his youth, Sittow went to study in Brugge to the famous painter Hans Memling.....

The painting entered the Hermitage in 1922 from the collection of the artist and antiquarian Robert Auer (Prokhor Prokopiev).

Fayum portraits are monuments of a funeral cult, created from the 1st to the 4th century AD in Egypt. They got their name from their initial discovery in 1887 in the Fayum oasis in Egypt. Fayum portraits are the most ancient examples of easel portrait painting. During this period, Egypt was where the beginnings of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art merged.

Exhibition announcement

The new fortune of the British art dealer Philip Mould

Interview with Prof. Hilkka Hiiop and Dr. Tiina-Mall Kreem - curators and researchers of the project

Interview with the spokesperson of the National Gallery in London