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Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
"Raphael did not just suddenly fall down from the sky to honor the century of Julius II and Leo X.". With this assertion taken from his Considérations sur l'état de la peinture en Italie, dans les quatre siècles qui ont précédé celui de Raphaël (...)
The four paintings which had been stolen from the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio, Corsica last February 2011 were recovered on the evening of 4th May 2012 in a city parking lot, after the investigating magistrate was notified that the works had been left (...)
The theft which took place a few days ago in the Corsican museum is not only incredible in the way it was carried out but also now quite dramatic in its consequences : four paintings, including Nicolas Poussin’s famous Midas, were stolen between (...)
Anyone familiar with the Musée Fesch – rebaptized Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Ajaccio – already knows that it houses one of France’s most important art collections, second only to the Louvre for its Italian paintings. The recent renovation, (...)
Just a few days apart, the Louvre pre-empted, on 20 October in Marseille (Damien Leclere Auction House) and on 31 October in Paris (Thierry de Maigret AH) two works
