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“Tobias and the Angel” — Francesco Guardi This painting is part of a series of four Old Testament scenes at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Three show angels appearing to Abraham; this one depicts young Tobias on a journey with Raphael, disguised as a man. Raphael teaches him to catch a fish whose gall will restore sight to his blind father, Tobit. The series was long attributed to Francesco, but scholars debate whether it was painted by his older brother Giovanni Antonio, who ran the family work…

“Disaster” — Gaetano Chierici Arteum

“Sirens” — James Jebusa Shannon Arteum

“Harvest, Pontoise” — Camille Pissarro Price: $21,000 At first glance, this is a simple scene of potato harvesting, but Pissarro revisited harvest scenes for nearly 30 years in pencil, gouache, oil, and prints. This version is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and once belonged to Robert Lehman, a leading 20th-century collector. Pissarro drew the motif of peasants bent over their work from the Barbizon painter Camille Corot, whom he admired. Yet the broken, grainy brushwork anticipates Ge…

“View of Toledo” — El Greco One of only two surviving landscapes by El Greco, this may be the first true landscape in Spanish painting. In late 16th-century Spain, Counter-Reformation rules discouraged landscapes without religious subjects. Though the Church was El Greco’s main patron, he broke with convention. The view feels documentary but isn’t accurate: he rearranged Toledo’s landmarks, placing the cathedral far from its real location and making a monastery appear to float above the ground…

Mobile internet speeds have dropped sharply in central Moscow, falling by as much as 17-fold in some parts of the city. The Digital Development Ministry had earlier warned that mobile internet restrictions could be in place from October 27 to 29. Arteum

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“View of Ischl,” 1838 Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865) Oil on canvas; 45 × 57.5 cm Old National Gallery, Berlin From 1831 onward, Waldmüller regularly visited the Salzkammergut, especially the area around Bad Ischl, where he spent the summer months. He chose to work outdoors, painting landscapes en plein air rather than in his studio. Arteum

“The White Cat” — Clement Burlison Arteum

His First Public Appearance, 1870 Canadian artist Charles Caleb Ward (1831–1896) Oil on wood; 25.4 × 30.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Arteum

“Мars and Venus” — François Lagrénée Arteum

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⚡️The elections are over—and VPNs are starting to go down one by one. Over the past week, Beeline, T2, and MegaFon have announced new restrictions. ✅ A VPN is now available in Russia that disguises its traffic as regular internet activity, making it harder for operators to detect or interfere with VPN use. It’s called Boost - VPN. The service updates its infrastructure and works on improvements every day. Telegram, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube—all work on mobile. Arteum

“View of Venice: San Giorgio Maggiore” — Ivan Aivazovsky Arteum

“The Flood” — Paul Merwart Arteum

“Three Women by the River” — Torii Kiyonaga Kiyonaga transformed bijinga, prints of beautiful women. While artists such as Suzuki Harunobu portrayed women as delicate, doll-like figures, Kiyonaga created tall, statuesque women with natural proportions and a dignified presence. He also set his figures in carefully rendered landscapes, using Western linear perspective to show them strolling by rivers, visiting teahouses, and enjoying the outdoors. His approach foreshadowed meisho, prints of famo…

“Nativity” — Gerard David This painting is rich in the quiet symbolism of 15th-century Netherlandish art. In the background, David depicts Jerusalem, a recognisable northern medieval city where Christ would be crucified. Its presence in the peaceful Nativity hints that salvation began at Christ’s birth. In the distance, an angel announces the good news to the shepherds as one hurries to worship the child. David combines two moments in one panel, a common medieval technique. Some scholars belie…

“Madonna of the Pomegranate” — Sandro Botticelli Price: $210,000 The pomegranate in Mary’s hands symbolizes Christ’s coming suffering: its countless seeds evoke the drops of blood he would shed. Mary and the infant’s hint of sadness suggests they know what lies ahead. Archival records suggest Florentine magistrates commissioned the painting for their Palazzo Vecchio meeting room. Art historian Herbert Horne identified it in the 20th century as the tondo described in those documents. In 2019, …

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“The Shield-Bearing Warrior” — Unknown artist, workshop of San Baudelio de Berlanga Price: $16,500 This fresco fragment once adorned the 11th-century church of San Baudelio de Berlanga in Castile, Spain. In the early 12th century, Catalan painters covered its interior with two tiers: scenes from Christ’s life above, and hunting, exotic animals and shield-bearing warriors below. For medieval viewers, earthly scenes framed the sacred story. In the 1920s and ’30s, the frescoes were removed and tr…