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Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
"The horror of the fatal enigma, the seal closing the mouth at the moment we learn the word, all of this was captured once in a sublime work which I discovered in an enclosed part of the Père Lachaise, at the Jewish cemetery." This is the way (...)
This American museum recently acquired a painting by a major Catalan artist from the early 20th century, Ramón Casas, purchased at the Mathieu Néouze Gallery in Paris. The work is particularly striking due to its composition which is in fact (...)
How does one explain the fact that a masterpiece can remain on the art market for several years without finding a buyer ? We kept asking ourselves this question every time we admired Erminia and the Shepherds by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière at the (...)
Colin Bailey has just been appointed, starting 1st June, as head of the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco, that is two establishments, the Legion of Honor and the De Young Museum. This institution had been left without a director since the (...)
Charles Baudelaire did not like François-Auguste Biard and signed his critical execution in a few lines when reviewing the Salon of 1846, once again proving that this great poet was a mediocre art critic. In fact, Biard was a multi-talented (...)
Oliver Meslay left the Louvre almost two years ago to take over as curator at the Dallas Museum of Art, in charge of European and American art. Several works have been acquired since he arrived. The following are the most important (...)
Jacques-Louis David’s early career was toilsome (to be honest, so was the end). A distant relative of François Boucher, a student of Vien and occasional collaborator with Fragonard, we now know that it was only after a long shedding-off of the (...)
