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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Age to the 1930's
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Newsletter 14/04/2009
The Newsletter in english is not yet available. You can subscribe to the Newsletter of La Tribune de l’Art, in French. Send us an e-mail to be informed when the English Newsletter will be (...)
Interview of Francesco Petrucci, director of the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia 03/12/2008
Francesco Petrucci, director of the Palazzo Chigi, holds an architectural degree as a restorer of historical monuments. He has written many studies on the Baroque, notably a monograph on Bernini’s paintings. He thus progressively moved towards (...)
L’Œil gourmand. A Journey through Neapolitan Still Life of the 17th century. 28/09/2007
There has not been an exhibition of XVIIthC. Italian paintings on the Parisian cultural scene for quite some time. Thus we are all the more delighted with the remarkable retrospective of Neapolitan still lifes organized by the Canesso Gallery. (...)
A new electronic journal on Dutch art 13/01/2010
Scholarly publications continue to flourish on the net. Last June we missed the appearance on the net of a journal, free of access, which has just presented its second issue. This is the semi-annual Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (...)
La Russie romantique. Chefs-d’œuvre de la galerie nationale Tretiakov Moscou 17/10/2010
The Musée de la Vie Romantique does not always stay on the beaten path. This time, it is offering a very instructive exhibition on Russian Romantic artists, a subject which is still relatively unknown in France. All of the works come from the (...)
The Duke of Luynes’ {Surtout} by Froment-Meurice Acquired by the Louvre 14/06/2013
During the remarkable exhibition at the Musée de la Vie Romantique, in 2003, highlighting the Froment-Meurice family, the Surtout commissioned by the Duke of Luynes from François-Désiré Froment-Meurice was included in the catalogue but not (...)
Links to art history websites 14/04/2005
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS (see also in assorted sites by art historians containing articles) Apollo : The current issue of the journal is free online (must sign up) The National Gallery of Canada’s Bulletin and Annual Bulletin (1963-1985) : All the (...)
ADMICAL Launches a Petition for Patronage 14/06/2012
We had passed on the information revealed by Vince Noce in Libération here on our site, concerning the French Budget Ministry’s wish to cut fiscal deductions for patronage by half. The news was confirmed today in the same newspaper by Aurélie (...)
The Thaw landscape collection donated to the Metropolitan Museum and the Morgan Library 18/10/2010
18/10/10 – Acquisitions – New York, Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library – The news did not make the headlines despite its importance : last year, Gene and Clare Thaw, already generous donors to the Metropolitan Museum and the Morgan Library (...)
The Hornstein Donation to Montreal (1) 30/05/2012
A few weeks ago we had announced the exceptional donation made by Michal and Renata Hornstein of their collection of old master paintings to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, and the upcoming construction of a new wing to house them. Since (...)
The Louis XIV sculpture returns to Versailles 30/04/2009
The return of the equestrian bronze statue of Louis XIV is excellent news.
A Fra Angelico Panel To Be Auctioned in Marseille 14/09/2012
Works by Fra Angelico are rarely if almost never found on the art market. By chance, two have recently appeared in France. The first, Saint Dominic and Saint Francis of Assissi Receiving the Stigmata was listed as a national treasure in August (...)
Contact 02/11/2008
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Links to museum websites 14/04/2005
Armenia Erevan, National Gallery of Armenia Australia Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia Canberra, National Gallery of Australia Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia Queensland, Art (...)
The Louis Daguerre Diorama is reborn in Bry-sur-Marne 26/05/2010
Not content with having invented the photographic process bearing his name, the painter Louis Daguerre also created the Diorama, a theatrical method by which an immense canvas painted on both sides was animated by lights (...)
A Francisque Millet painting donated to the Louvre 07/11/2010
A very beautiful canvas by Jean-François Millet, known as Francisque Millet, one of the most important 17th century French landscapists, has just been donated to the Musée du Louvre, as a promised gift, by Mr. Antoine (...)
It’s not every day that an old master we barely knew resurfaces in the art world. Thanks to the Canesso Gallery which is exhibiting practically all of his work until 6 November, the Maestro della tela jeans has now reappeared and can assume his (...)
BRAFA 2012 in Brussels 23/01/2012
The BRAFA which opened on 20 January in Brussels continues to improve in quality every year. True, old master paintings and drawings are, regrettably, fewer in number but this is compensated by the abundance of sculptures and, of course, art (...)
An interview with Guy Cogeval, president of the Musée d’Orsay 14/10/2009
A little over a year and a half after his appointment at the head of the Musée d’Orsay, Guy Cogeval organized a press conference a few days ago to present the project for reorganizing the collections. He granted us an interview at this time (...)
Recent acquisitions of the Musée des Avelines in Saint Cloud 03/02/2010
While many small museums today face serious financial difficulties, others, on the contrary and fortunately for the pleasure of all, can afford to develop and encourage the activities they offer, even to increase their (...)
The restoration of the Hôtel Lambert goes to court before the Tribunal Administratif 06/09/2009
Louis Le Vau Hôtel Lambert, courtyard Photo : SCI Hôtel Lambert / M. Lombard This summer the Hôtel Lambert case took a surprising legal turn. The authorization permit issued by the Ministry of Culture (see news item of 23/6/09) was appealed (...)
Two exhibitions about Paul Baudry 30/01/2008
The musee de La Roche-sur-Yon, which had remained closed for several years, organized at the end of 2007 its first major exhibition since the one devoted to Paul Braudy in 1986. The decorator of the Paris Opera was once again represented but (...)
A Burne-Jones tapestry donated to the Musée d’Orsay 24/02/2009
The Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé auction has given rise to last minute negotiations.
Péristyles, the Journal of the Amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy 13/05/2013
An art history journal, especially one which has been around for some time, is so rare that we would like to point out a very discreet bulletin founded in 1992 which has appeared since then at regular intervals, twice a year. The title of the (...)
Saint Rufina by Velázquez returns to Sevilla 06/07/2007
Saint Rufina by Velázquez up for auction July 4 in London (see News of June 9, 2007) was acquired by a Foundation in Seville, created by Abengoa, a company specialized in waste management and renewable energy (...)
Simon Vouet en Italie 03/01/2012
The proceedings from the Simon Vouet colloquium in Italy organized at the same time as the remarkable exhibition by Dominique Jacquot and Adeline Collange at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes were published recently and are just as fascinating. (...)
Close Examination : Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries 20/08/2010
When he was first appointed as head of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny had stated that he planned to limit the number of blockbuster exhibitions, notably for economic reasons. After Delaroche, the London museum continues to pursue this (...)
The Keys to Algiers Will Remain at the Musée de l’Armée 02/01/2013
The keys to Algiers, which the President of the French Republic was supposed to give Abdelaziz Bouteflika on his upcoming trip to Algeria next 19 and 20 December 2012
During a recent exhibition highlighting Algeria, the honorary keys to Algiers which Dey Hussein handed over to the French army after the fall of the city on 5 July 1830, thus belonging to the Musée de l’Armée in Paris, were on view and in fact (...)
Pauline Viardot as Saint Cecilia by Ary Scheffer Pre-empted by the Musée de la Vie Romantique 11/04/2014
Pauline Viardot was a well known figure during the Romantic period in Paris. Initially a pianist, she turned to singing after the death of her sister, Maria Malibran, also composing melodies and operas for private circles. In 1863, following (...)
Janmot’s The Torture of Mezentius Acquired by the Musée d’Orsay 25/04/2014
The Etruscan king Mezentius : "went so far even as to mix dead bodies with humans, hand to hand, face to face, as a kind of torture, thus inflicting a slow death to these beings who liquefied themselves into pus and rot, in a miserable (...)
Mexico City honors Erik Larsen, historian of Flemish art 03/10/2007
Born in Austria, Emeritus Professor at Lawrence University in Kansas, the art historian Erik Larsen (1911-2006) was a renowned specialist of Flemish art and of the Dutch Golden Age, author
Henry de Triqueti (1803-1874) 01/11/2007
About twenty years ago, when visiting the Musée Girodet, we could see the building outside housing the pieces from the artist’s workshop. The collection was at the time in precarious shape. A rehabilitation of XIXth C. sculpture was just beginning (...)
A Claude Lorrain acquired by the Getty Museum 01/04/2008
The museum in California enriched its collections a few months ago with a painting by Claude Lorrain representing
One of the Crown jewels acquired by the Louvre 24/04/2008
We had published (in French, on La Tribune de l’Art) an article by Daniel Alcouffe concerning the disastrous sale in 1887 of the crown jewels
A miniature by Hilliard purchased by the Amis du Louvre in London 10/12/2007
he Societé des Amis du Louvre has purchased on 20 November at Christie’s, London, a miniature by Nicholas Hilliard representing
Sale of Italian drawings from the Horvitz collection at Sotheby’s New York 19/01/2008
Jeffrey Horvitz is no doubt the best known American collector of Old Master drawings today. The French holdings are very famous, as revealed by the exhibition of some of the best works which (...)
French drawings at the Musee Magnin available on Internet 30/01/2008
After Pau, another national museum in the French provinces has posted a
Two new databases on Internet : the Musee Fabre and the British Museum 29/01/2008
Here are two more Internet tools that will soon become indispensable to art historians.
Two works by Carolus-Duran for Roubaix and Lille 23/06/2007
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 (...)
New temporary hanging for english paintings in the Louvre 08/07/2007
The Musée du Louvre is once again displaying in the gallery of the Seven Fireplaces, which had been monopolized for several months by the Venus de Milo, a selection from its collection of British (...)
The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille opens its Internet site 14/06/2007
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.
Saint Martina by Pietro da Cortona acquired by the LACMA 01/08/2007
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently announced the acquisition thanks to funding from the Ahmanson Foundation of a unknown painting by Pietro da Cortona representing
Guy Cogeval appointed head of the Musee d’Orsay 30/01/2008
The news of Guy Cogeval’s appointment to the Presidency of the Musee d’Orsay was published today in the
Recent acquisitions of the Musée départemental de l’Oise in Beauvais (France) 05/05/2007
Certain small museums are constant proof that it is possible to enrich a collection with only limited means at their disposal. This is the case of the one in Beauvais which applies a wise policy of (...)
Acquisition of a copper by Jacques Stella for the Musée du Louvre 12/01/2008
Some painters seem to make the headlines regularly, especially as concerns acquisitions or rediscoveries. Jacques Stella is one of them.
François de Troy and the Musée de l’Ile-de-France : call for fundraising and acquisition 25/02/2008
The Journal Officiel of 23 February has published a fundraising appeal for the purchase of a painting by François de Troy representing
Death of Philip Conisbee 19/01/2008
Philip Conisbee, senior curator of European paintings at the National Gallery in Washington passed away last Thursday from lung cancer.
A Boilly and a Sablet for the Louvre ; a Sablet (maybe) for the Musée Fesch 18/11/2007
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
