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5 giorni fa · First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President is a captivating and revealing book about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In this memoir, Putin shares personal anecdotes and insights into his life, career, and the inner workings of the Russian government.
Let’s learn about this man, named Joseph Ducreux. To begin with, it’s intriguing that he was an aristocrat, although not by birth, but through the title of baron, bestowed upon him when he was appointed premier peintre de la reine (First Painter to the Queen). He was born in Nancy in 1735, the son of a painter who introduced him to the ...
5 giorni fa · Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiatt review – glimpses of a demon-driven genius. Francis Bacon composed his autobiography in paint, not words. His portraiture laid bare the skull beneath the skin, the beast pregnantly housed inside the human form, and all of the figures he painted – copulating men, hybrid monsters ...
2 giorni fa · Ayn Rand. Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; [c] February 2 [ O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( / aɪn / INE ), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. [3] She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.
5 giorni fa · Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that confront such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Some of her notable paintings included Frieda and Diego Rivera (1931) and The Two Fridas (1939).
2 giorni fa · Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko ( Ukrainian: Петро Олексійович Порошенко, pronounced [peˈtrɔ olekˈs⁽ʲ⁾ijowɪtʃ poroˈʃɛnko]; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian oligarch [8] [9] and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs ...
3 giorni fa · Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev [b] [c] (15 April [ O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor ...
