st.Aura · collection 2026
Séries
34 séries · 538 œuvres · faites défiler
Saint Georges le Victorieux
A horseman with a spear is the most recognisable image in Russian icon painting.Voir la série
La Sainte Trinité
Three travellers came to Abraham at noon, and he laid a table for them under the oak.Voir la série
Mère de Dieu
The Vladimir icon came to Rus from Constantinople in the twelfth century, and the Russian image of the Mother begins with it.Voir la série
Matriochkas
The matryoshka is little more than a hundred years old.Voir la série
L’Ange et le Guerrier
The Archangel Michael is the only figure in Christian iconography painted with a sword.Voir la série
Architecture des églises
A Russian church is assembled from four solids: cube, arch, onion dome, cross.Voir la série
Kiji
The Church of the Transfiguration on Kizhi island was raised in 1714: twenty-two domes, tier upon tier, and not a single nail in the log frame.Voir la série
Bogatyrs
Three riders on a hill — Ilya, Dobrynya and Alyosha — have stood in the Tretyakov Gallery since 1898 and in every school textbook ever since.Voir la série
Le Dit de la campagne d’Igor
In 1185 Prince Igor rode against the Polovtsians, was captured and escaped.Voir la série
La Pinède
The pine forest is the most Russian of forests, and Shishkin painted it once and for all.Voir la série
Motherland
There are signs a Russian reads before having time to think.Voir la série
L’Armée
The crimson shield is the most frequent colour in Russian military memory.Voir la série
Moscou
Moscow has an hour when it is at its best: the lamps are already lit and the sky still holds light.Voir la série
Les Barres
The prefab panel block is the country's most common architecture, and it has a pedigree.Voir la série
Jouet de Dymkovo
The Dymkovo toy comes from the settlement of Dymkovo near Vyatka.Voir la série
Tapis (laque)
A carpet on the wall was a sign of plenty every apartment knew: it hung above the sofa, above the bed, in grandmother's bedroom.Voir la série
Ornement
Ornament was never decoration.Voir la série
Gjel
Gzhel is thirty villages near Moscow where ceramics have been made since the seventeenth century, and one colour: cobalt.Voir la série
Boxe
The most famous photograph in boxing history was taken from above.Voir la série
Dollar
A banknote is the most widely printed engraving in history.Voir la série
Jeux — échecs et cartes
Chess is a game of thrones in the literal sense: "shah" is Persian for "king", and "shah mat" means "the king is dead".Voir la série
Madone
A red circle on a wall is read before anything else: it is a signal, a sun, a seal.Voir la série
Le Festin
The table is the only stage found in every home.Voir la série
Le Diable s’habille en Prada
There is a film after which a red shoe stopped being footwear.Voir la série
Bouleaux
Birch bark never repeats, like a fingerprint: the black strokes on white are different on every tree.Voir la série
Graphisme
If everything painting is about is taken out of it, what remains is what it is made of: gesture, stroke, blot, stripe.Voir la série
Flore
A bouquet in a vase is the oldest subject of domestic painting: it was painted on faience, on silk, on Flemish panels and on tiled stoves.Voir la série
Serpents
The ouroboros — the snake biting its own tail — is older than any culture in which it appears.Voir la série
Petrov-Vodkine
"Bathing of a Red Horse" was painted in 1912, two years before the war, and has been read ever since as a prophecy.Voir la série
Visages
A face is recognised before any other form: an infant finds its mother's eyes in the second week.Voir la série
Japon
Japanese art has the notion of "ma" — the interval, the pause, the empty place that means no less than the filled one.Voir la série
Silhouettes
Line is the oldest thing the hand can do: before colour, before volume.Voir la série
Peintures en relief
This is where the studio began.Voir la série