Dimanche 31 mai 2020
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
Legend goes that he discouraged his more timid students : "In that way, he did a great service to both art and artists"... Jules Garipuy taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse and directed the Musée des Augustins which today holds seven (...)
With the sole exception, almost forty years ago now, of the exhibition organized by Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée , which in fact included only French artists (or, some thought to be so at the time), there has not been a show (...)
The Musée des Augustins has chosen to approach the chaotic period between the French Revolution and the Restoration by way of genre painting. All of the canvases, some of which are unpublished, come exclusively from French collections, either (...)
The Musée des Augustins owns an extensive group of works by Benjamin-Constant, a Parisian artist who went to Toulouse to study art. The highlight of this collection is the famous Mehmet II Entering Constantinople in 1453, presented at the Salon (...)
The painting, Christ Carrying the Cross, now claimed by the French government from the London art dealer, Mark Weiss, is currently being held on the premises of the Service des musées de France. Talks are underway with the gallery, whose good (...)
Libération today revealed an affair about which we ourselves had been preparing an article in the last few days. A painting by Nicolas Tournier currently being shown by Mark Weiss at the Salon Paris, which had been presented at two Maastricht (...)
Antonio Verrio. The artist’s name is barely known today and yet he became painter to the king of England, Charles II, achieving international status and leaving behind painted murals in many British residences, including Windsor castle. Although (...)
Last 12 December at Drouot (Cornette de Saint Cyr SVV sale), the museum in Toulouse preempted a canvas by Antoine Rivalz, a native of that city, representing
Strangely enough, grisaille, the technique by which an artist works without colour, using only the resources of white and black, has been rarely studied. And yet the subject is fascinating, raising many questions about the very act of painting. (...)
