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This portrait of Fyodor Sologub was commissioned from Boris Kustodiev in 1907 by Nikolai Ryabushinsky, editor and publisher of the Golden Fleece magazine. Five years later, in 1912, the artist also s...
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri ) crosses the Rio di Palazzo in Venice. Built by Antonio Contino in 1602, this enclosed passageway connected the court rooms in the Doge’s Palace with ...
Valentin Serov visited Italy in 1904, but was not impressed: “I expected much from Florence... The architecture is unattractive. The Campanile di Giotto is fine, but not captivatingly so, as I had im...