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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 Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille has been without a director for several months since the departure of Alain Tapié. His successor was appointed a few days ago as we mentioned in our last editorial, though without revealing his name which we knew (...)
The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille recently exhibited several works by Velvet Brueghel lent by different European establishments in the show Fables du paysage flamand, but last April it acquired its own drawing by the artist, representing a (...)
Images are "made to mean something different from what we see with our eyes", asserted Cesare Ripa. The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille makes a brilliant demonstration of this axiom in an iconological exhibition highlighting the "fables in the (...)
The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille has acquired a beautiful portrait of a woman by Carolus Duran, which had come up for auction on 21 February 2010 at Mercier & Cie., estimated at between 8,000 and 12,000 €. A native of this city, the artist (...)
“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 (...)
A superb Luca Giordano from his early period has just joined the Musée de Lille which did not yet own any works by this very prolific artist. This Philosopher was purchased from the G. Sarti Gallery in (...)
At the same time that Toulouse is highlighting Verrio (see article), the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille is currently offering another unfamiliar 18th century Italian painter. This coincidence deserves our attention as museum initiatives which (...)
Blessed are those virtuous museums, and here the adjective is doubly qualifying, which find virtue very simply, and very bravely, in studying and publishing their holdings ! This is a cardinal task for institutions but often ignored if not (...)
In a recent article devoted to 17th and 18th century French paintings, we offered a reproduction of an unpublished landscape by Philippe de Champaigne presented by Tajan
Until last March and thanks to the artist’s heirs, the works of the sculptor Henri Bouchard (1875-1960) were displayed in the museum bearing his name located in his former workshop in Paris. After its closing, the works have fortunately found a (...)
After the museum in Lyon, which acquired a website late last year, another important provincial museum, this time in Lille, has implemented this indispensable tool.
