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Last update on 27/01/2012
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
We have already explained here why the argument presented by the Mayor of Versailles claiming the Schéma directeur de la région d’Ile-de-France (SDRIF) as a truly restrictive document cannot be taken seriously. We can now definitely prove that it does not hold (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner et Julien Lacaze
27/01/2012
The massacre had been in the planning for some time : Paris City Hall has gutted the Dauphins fountains, Place de la République, with the passive complicity of the French Ministry of Culture which did not move a finger to protect them, totally destroying them (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner
26/01/2012
The exhibition which just closed at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and which we unfortunately could not see reflects the very dynamic policy of this institution, esteemed for its rich collections as well as its organization of notable events (...)
Read the entire article by Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond
25/01/2012
The response from Versailles City Hall to our articles, published here, is interesting. First of all because it does not bring into question any of our conclusions concerning the PLU, that is notably its consequences in terms of density and height of the (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner et Julien Lacaze
19/01/2012
Upon reading the two articles in La Tribune de l’Art, it would seem that a certain number of legal points have not been taken into consideration. We find it useful to provide a few more enlightening remarks which will help readers to better understand the (...)
Read the entire article by Mairie de Versailles
18/01/2012
The Louvre will be sending about twenty works from all its departments (except Arts Graphiques) to three Japanese cities from 20 April to 17 September 2012 staying a little over a month at each stop[[The dates were provided by the Louvre. The three cities are (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner
16/01/2012
The Versailles Municipal Council, on 24 November 2011, approved a revision of the Plan Local d’Urbanisme [Local Zoning Plan]. The city is therefore determined to implement its project consisting in replacing its current reversible zoning policy whereby property (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner et Julien Lacaze
16/01/2012
The recent unveiling of the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s newly-restored Saint Cecilia has aroused much interest because of its uncertain attribution. ‘Dulwich Picture Gallery saves St Cecilia from ruin – but who painted her ?:as the rescued baroque picture goes on (...)
Read the entire article by Chris Michaelides
10/01/2012
In 1844, the Cabinet des médailles received David d’Angers’ donation of the entire set of original plaster casts for his medallions, which then joined the collections permanently after his death in 1856. These works, invaluable steps in the creative process, (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner
10/01/2012
From what we can see in the photograph published by The Art Tribune, the Saint Cecilia in Dulwich proves its Ferrara origins rather than Bologna. The painting should be studied in connection with the production of Carlo Bonone (1569-1632), an artist (...)
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07/01/2012
The proceedings from the Simon Vouet colloquium in Italy organized at the same time as the remarkable exhibition by Dominique Jacquot and Adeline Collange at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes were published recently and are just as fascinating. This (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner
03/01/2012
The Musée d’Orsay, now renovated and enlarged, opened its new galleries two months ago. Since then, many readers have been surprised at not seeing an article on this site about an event which has received extensive coverage (...)
Read the entire article by Didier Rykner
03/01/2012
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In the official gazette of Government Decrees (Magyar Közlöny) László Baán, Director of the Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts) since December 2004, was appointed Government Commissioner with full powers for planning a new museum district of Budapest. As part of this (...)
An indirect, and unexpected, consequence of the French-Spanish exchanges of 1941, the transfer to Spain of a large part of the Visigoth crowns from the Musée de Cluny resulted in another case of potential deaccessioning which is well worth telling, for the way in (...)
As reported extensively in the media, last 17 december a fire broke out at the Institut Egyptien during the clashes between demonstrators and police. We have not yet commented on this sad event as we had no precise information concerning the extent of the damages. (...)
I read Pierre Curie's remarks in The Art Tribune (see article) pointing out a copy of The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio at the Cathedral of Jérez de la Frontera, with great interest. I would, in turn, like to remark upon a curious and very interesting (...)
The affair has been discussed and the debate now closed : in nearly six years, none of the Caravaggio specialists has considered or published the two paintings from Loches as originals despite their prestigious pedigree, a logical consequence of their mediocre (...)
Another book on Versailles, one might say (and the author, a major specialist of the château, has just collaborated as well in the imposing monograph published by Citadelles & Mazenod). However, this volume stands out from the rest. This is not just another (...)
The sale of the Friedrich painting to a French private collector once again raises the question of the acquisition of National Treasures. True, other National Treasures have been, or will be, purchased by the Louvre. In all probability, we will soon see the Fra (...)
The painting by Caspar David Friedrich, discovered by the Talabardon & Gautier Gallery which we had announced here, was finally sold to a French collector. Although the work is temporarily banned for export, it seems unlikely at this point that the Louvre, even (...)
"The public wants to be treated like a woman, to whom you can only say what she likes to hear", Goethe said ; John Martin applied the same aphorism to his painting, conceiving catastrophic scenarios, of which the most spectacular are taken from the Bible. His (...)
While Spanish paintings of the Golden Age are well represented in our most important museums, the history of art between Goya and Picasso often takes on the appearance of a mysterious ocean, interspersed with a few islands, unfamiliar to a wide audience and whose (...)
The City of Versailles is currently attempting to enact a new urban development plan (called Plan Local d’Urbanisme in French). In a long article, not translated, on our French website, La Tribune de l’Art, we showed how this plan was a serious threat to part of the (...)
This catalogue, published at the time of the exhibition held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Quimper from April to August 2011 which we, unfortunately, were not able to see, and co-edited by the museum along with éditions Palantines, is a fine example of serious (...)
Village fairs, carnivals, banquets, weddings, religious festivals... An unbridled joy is on display at the Frans Hals Museum currently exhibiting some forty-five paintings of the Dutch Golden Age on the theme of celebrating dear to Jan Steen and, notably the (...)
Italian publishing has again confirmed its vitality : a Baroque painter active in Rome and Naples in the second half of the 17th century, Giovanni Battista Beinaschi (Fossano (Cuneo), 1636 - Naples, 1688), relatively unknown to the general public - and not (...)
The Musée des Augustins has chosen to approach the chaotic period between the French Revolution and the Restoration by way of genre painting. All of the canvases, some of which are unpublished, come exclusively from French collections, either public or private ; the (...)
When German museums set up an exhibition, they usually do not do things halfway. After the sweeping retrospective on the Master of Naumburg which we discussed here, the current one on the Dusseldorf school, organized by the Kunstpalast which recently reopened is (...)
With the publication of this book last spring, the Arthena association continues to pursue its very necessary and courageous work of editing monographic works on artists whose importance in art history has sometimes been forgotten. Although the van Loo name has (...)
“A great or a minor master ?” asks Jacques Foucart in a catalogue essay which raises many other questions as well. This is not the first time this one comes up and the Lille exhibition on Louis-Léopold Boilly, often reduced to the stature of a slapdash portrait artist (...)
Nicholas Penny had announced there would be no more blockbuster exhibitions. The one now highlighting Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery is thus a bit paradoxical as one would be hard put to imagine a restrospective drawing larger crowds than this. To remedy (...)
A native of Lyon, who studied under Bon Boullogne and received the Grand Prix of the Académie Royale in France, Daniel Sarrabat was practically unknown before this retrospective in Bourg-en-Bresse, despite a very active career in Lyon and its surroundings. We should (...)
He does not lie in the pantheon of great artists and his work does not fall under the genre of grand painting ; some would even say that his art is repetitive, a succession of views of Mount Vesuvius meant to sell briskly as souvenirs of the Grand Tour. Emilie Beck (...)
Wednesday afternoons, from 2 to 5:30 only, room A at the National Gallery in London is open to the public. There are not many visitors and, yet this gallery in fact represents a major portion of the museum’s works in storage holding about 700 paintings hanging close (...)
One man and two exhibitions, Georges de Lastic (1927-1988), a curator and collector, amply deserves this celebration in the two locations which distinctly marked his professional life. After graduating from the Ecole du Louvre, where he completed his dissertation (...)
The Opera is now hidden, as is the Musée d’Orsay, by a gigantic billboard, while a similar advertisement draws the eye of passers-by at the corner of the rue Saint-Honoré and rue de Richelieu, at the other end of the Avenue de l’Opéra within the protected perimeter of (...)
Four years ago, the Code du patrimoine was modified by a law (issued by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres…) authorizing, under very specific conditions, billboards to be hung over the canvases covering historical monuments during repairs. We had not paid enough attention (...)
This article inaugurates a new series devoted to Parisian churches. Although we often point out endangered religious sites, those here in the capital have escaped our attention thus far as we tend to assume that they are well (...)
Those of you who have never visited the Serres d’Auteuil, should waste no time in discovering this magnificent landmark, significant for its historical heritage with its greenhouses built in 1897 by Camille Formigé as well as its extraordinary collection of plants (...)
