Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum houses four paintings by Dutch masters that represent a variety of portraiture styles of ...

The participant of more than 120 exhibitions in Russia and other countries of the world ... (and which he shares with them), makes his paintings significant, and the nobility of color helps to ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia's defence ministry was working on different ways to respond if the United States and its NATO allies help Ukraine to strike ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

Oct 25 (Reuters) - Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motors (601633.SS), opens new tab is expanding the capacity of its assembly line in Russia to 200,000 cars from next year, seeking to expand its ...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration announced a new $20 billion loan to Ukraine which will be backed by the value of frozen Russian assets. The loan, known as the Extraordinary Revenue ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi both praised expanding relations with Russia at bilateral meetings with President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Putin is hosting a ...

The illustrious branches of the Whitehouse family tree are almost too many to number. Two of Sheldon’s great-aunts married into nobility — one English, one Russian. The twelfth Earl of Coventry, the ...

rectilinear sleek geometrical forms and urban landscapes with luminously colored portraits of aristocrats, writers, entertainers, artists, scientists, and exiled nobility of the 1925-1935 period.

The early Middle Ages saw the rise of a new social body in Europe: the nobility. This group quickly gained prominence ... The goal is not to draw a stereotypical portrait—though practical, it would be ...