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Ivan Loginov, 1994 | Academic painter


Иван Логинов is an Russian artist🎨.
"I was born in a small town of Abakan in the south of Siberia. At the age of 15 I went to St. Petersburg to study drawing".
Иван Логинов is assistant of head teacher at The Imperial Academy of Arts, Saint-Petersburg.

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La Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Vatican Apostolic Library -BAV, official library of the Vatican, located inside the Vatican palace. It is especially notable as one of the world’s richest manuscript depositories.
The library is the direct heir of the first library of the Roman pontiffs. Very little is known of this library up to the 13th century, but it appears to have remained only a modest collection of works until Pope Nicholas V (1447-55) greatly enlarged it with his purchase of the remnants of the imperial library of Constantinople (now Istanbul), which had recently been conquered by the Ottoman Turks.


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Baroque sculpture in Rome | The Four Fountains

The Quattro Fontane /The Four Fountains - is an ensemble of four Late Renaissance fountains located at the intersection of Via delle Quattro Fontane and Via del Quirinale in Rome.
They were commissioned by Pope Sixtus V and built at the direction of Muzio Mattei, and were installed between 1588-1593.


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Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) | Page 6

At the height of his fame, the Florentine painter and draughtsman Sandro Botticelli was one of the most esteemed artists in Italy. His graceful pictures of the Madonna and Child, his altarpieces and his life-size mythological paintings, such as 'Venus and Mars', were immensely popular in his lifetime.
The son of a tanner, he was born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, but he was given the nickname 'Botticelli' (derived from the word 'botticello' meaning 'small wine cask').
Smart beyond his years, the young Botticelli became easily bored at school. He was known for his sharp wit and his love of practical jokes, and he quickly earned a reputation as a restless, hyperactive and impatient child. Fortunately, his precocious talent was recognised and he was withdrawn from school and sent to work as an apprentice.


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Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Baroque sculptor

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, (born Dec. 7, 1598, Naples, Kingdom of Naples (Italy)-died Nov. 28, 1680, Rome, Papal States), Italian artist who was perhaps the greatest sculptor of the 17th century and an outstanding architect as well.
Bernini created the Baroque style of sculpture and developed it to such an extent that other artists are of only minor importance in a discussion of that style.