Mardi 20 août 2019
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 Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva recently purchased a large painting by Gustave Courbet representing a Panorama des Alpes, produced late in his life after his exile in Switzerland. The view showing the mountain ranges of the Dents du Midi (...)
Once again, an extraordinary "rediscovery" of an art work is creating sensational headlines and is spreading like wildfire in the media which has decidedly still not learned its lesson. The joke here is that the real findings, that of a sublime (...)
We had already known for several weeks that the fundraising drive launched by the Louvre for the acquisition of the ivory statues, the Synagogue and Saint John, completing a 13th century Descent from the Cross, had reached its goal. In order not (...)
Reopened in 2011 after a three year renovation, the Musée Courbet in Ornans launched a fundraising drive a few weeks ago to purchase a painting by the artist representing The Oak at Flagey from a Japanese collector, Michimasa Murauchi. The price (...)
The buildings which have been preserved and restored at the Saline Royale in Arc-et-Senans (Doubs) by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux alone are worth a visit. The disposition of different architectural styles, the semi-circle formed by the various (...)
The same exhibition can take on another look when it travels to a new location. This is certainly the case for the Courbet retrospective which has just started at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier after stopovers in Paris and New York (not (...)
