After the exhibition in Evreux devoted to Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne and Nicolas de Plattemontagne, after the retrospective on Philippe de Champaigne in Lille, the Musée de Port-Royal is now (...)
While case studies such as “the painting of the month” highlighting a work in the permanent collection are of real interest (new information, identifications or acquisitions are often presented) (...)
Visitors to the château de Versailles who arrive at the Rive-Droite train station walk by a superb 18th century monument, the Hôpital Richaud.
More and more provincial museums are focusing on their collections and publishing catalogues raisonnés often with an accompanying exhibition. The Italian paintings at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in (...)
True, in this case the buildings do not concern Victor Baltard, but his father Louis-Pierre. However, the parallel is overwhelming : almost forty years after the Halles were massacred in the (...)
The Saint Joseph prison in Lyon by Louis-Pierre Baltard is doubly important in the history of architecture. First of all, along with the palace of justice by the same Baltard, this is one of the (...)
An exhibition consisting of works transferred from one museum for display in another can be justified in certain specific cases, for example when there are drawings which cannot be shown (...)
Simon Vouet (Les années italiennes 1613/1617). Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, from 21 November 2008 to 23 February 2009. Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, from 27 March to 29 June 2009.
The Simon Vouet (...)
Like the exhibition, of transient quality by its very nature, the catalogue which accompanies this retrospective on 16th to 18th century French bronzes is to be generously commended. It is the (...)
Although German expression, even according to the organisers of this exhibition “is still a new subject in France”, what should be said about Emil Nolde, who is no doubt its most flamboyant (...)
Some books defy critical review. It would be easier to simply not even attempt it and brush them off politely but this has not been our choice of solution. The lack of a monographic study on (...)
The Syndicat National des Antiquaires has just awarded its art book prize to Nicolas Régnier by Annick Lemoine. It rewards a remarkable monographic study, both erudite and pleasantly readable, (...)
On the waterfront): an evocative title which resounds like a familiar ballad. And by searching even just a bit, one soon finds its source: the memories of the realist tunes on the radio or the (...)
Built in 1910, the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva, a municipal museum, is currently a victim of two evils: its state of decay, due to reduced maintenance, calls for immediate restoration, and (...)
On Monday 9 March, during a four-hour marathon session, the Commission supérieure des monuments historiques validated, with extensive reservations, the restoration project for the Hôtel Lambert. (...)
Organizing sculpture exhibitions is a difficult task as the size and weight of the works make them difficult to transport, sometimes even impossible, at other times highly unadvisable. Baroque (...)
In this very discreet fiftieth anniversary of the Ministry of Culture, French citizens should feel the duty to gather support in defense of their national heritage, in this case the Hôtel de (...)
We have already discussed Jean-Jacques Aillagon’s determination, stated repeatedly, to restore and reopen the rooms of the Musée de l’Histoire de France of (...)