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“The Nightmare” — H. Füssli Canvas Legacy

“Girl Playing the Zither,” 1894 Artist: Franz von Defregger (Franz von Defregge) Oil on panel; 71 × 54 cm Private collection The zither is a plucked string instrument that became especially popular in Austria and Germany during the 18th century. It is also known among Hungarians. The instrument has a flat, irregularly shaped wooden body, about 55 cm long and 25–30 cm wide, with 17 to 45 strings stretched across it, depending on its size. Canvas Legacy

“Incense Burner Supported by Amours and Snakes, Decorated with Flower Garlands” — Unknown French artist Price: $17,500 Likely an imagined design inspired by 18th-century decorative art, this painting resembles an overdoor for an aristocratic interior. Rococo motifs frame an incense burner: amours evoke love and pleasure, garlands beauty and passing time, and snakes eternity and renewal. Its fragrant smoke makes scent part of the artwork. Incense burners were fashionable in 18th-century France…

“The Little Street” — Johannes Vermeer Vermeer painted modest homes, not palaces or grand squares: cracked brickwork, peeling whitewash and doors ajar. In the 17th century, such an attentive portrait of an ordinary street was unusual. Life unfolds without an audience. Women do household chores; children play outside. No one poses. We seem to be quietly watching a neighbor’s day. The Rijksmuseum identifies the location as 40–42 Vlamingstraat in Delft. Vermeer’s aunt, Ariaentgen Claes, lived in…

The Fisherman and the Siren — Frederic Leighton Canvas Legacy

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“Eruption of Vesuvius” — Albert Bierstadt Canvas Legacy

“Tobias and the Angel” — Francesco Guardi Who painted this work? The question reflects the complexities of 18th-century Venice’s family-run workshops. Part of a series of four Old Testament scenes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, it depicts young Tobias with the angel Raphael in human form. Raphael teaches him to catch a fish whose gall will restore sight to his blind father, Tobit. Long attributed to Francesco Guardi, the painting may instead be by his elder brother Giovanni Antonio, who ran t…

The Blue Rider — Wassily Kandinsky At first, the rider and horse are hard to make out. They seem to dissolve into color, turning the scene into an impression of movement rather than a clear narrative. Kandinsky isn’t showing us who is riding; he’s capturing the feeling of a swift passage through the landscape. This isn’t yet the fully abstract Kandinsky known to everyone, but the shift is already underway: reality gives way to inner feeling. He was especially fond of blue, which he associated …

“Girl on a Cliff in Sorrento,” 1871 Italian artist Filippo Palizzi (1818–1899) Oil on canvas; 54.8 × 79.5 cm The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Canvas Legacy

“Catastrophe” — Gaetano Chierici Canvas Legacy

The Sirens — James Jebusa Shannon Canvas Legacy

The Horsewoman — Karl Pavlovich Bryullov Canvas Legacy

“Harvest, Pontoise” — Camille Pissarro Price: $21,000 At first glance, this is a simple potato harvest. But Pissarro returned to the subject for 30 years, exploring it in pencil, gouache, oil and prints. This version is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from Robert Lehman’s celebrated collection. Pissarro drew on the bent peasants of Barbizon painter Camille Corot, while his broken, grainy brushwork anticipates Georges Seurat’s Pointillism, before Seurat developed his famous dots. The wor…

“The Blue Dress,” 1866 Artist: Alfred Stevens Oil on panel; 31.4 × 26 cm Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, USA Canvas Legacy

View of Toledo — El Greco One of only two surviving landscapes by El Greco, this may be the first pure landscape in Spanish painting. In late-16th-century Spain, Church rules rooted in the Council of Trent made landscapes without religious subjects unusual. Yet El Greco, whose main patron was the Church, broke with convention. The city is not depicted faithfully: El Greco rearranged its landmarks, placing the cathedral far from its real location and making the monastery on the left seem to flo…

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The State Russian Museum is now on Telegram! It’s more than a collection of paintings—it reflects the soul of a people and the meaning of its history. We Russians are not a people without a past. Our artistic heritage reaches back across the ages, and the spirit of ancient masters still soars over our ancient land. Canvas Legacy

Mobile internet speeds have dropped sharply in central Moscow, falling as much as 17-fold in some parts of the city. Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development had earlier warned of possible mobile internet restrictions from October 27 to 29. Canvas Legacy

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