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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Age to the 1930's
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 (...)
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Michelangelo : The Real Artist behind the Mona Lisa 01/04/2012
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Oil on panel - 76.8 x 53 cm Paris, Musée du Louvre Photo : C2RMF Gianfranco Salvatori is well aware that he is about to set loose a veritable bomb which will go far beyond the confines of the museum world. (...)
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 (...)
Gustave Doré, Born a Painter 14/08/2012
No man is a prophet in his own country. Despite his success as an illustrator, Gustave Doré must have often reflected on this age-old maxim. The artist thought of himself above all as a painter but he was never acknowledged as such in France (...)
First acquisitions by the Louvre-Abu Dhabi 12/06/2009
The Louvre-Abu Dhabi acquisitions started at the Bergé auction as we had been the first to announce. Nineteen objects in all have been purchased since then and are now on exhibition in Abu (...)
What is The Art Tribune ? 14/04/2006
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Two New Internet Websites for Rembrandt and Goya 27/09/2012
Two monographic sites devoted to two of Europe’s greatest painters, Goya and Rembrandt, were recently posted almost simultaneously (on 17 and 19 September). They are slightly similar in design and scope. The Rembrandt Database : the "Rembrandt (...)
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 (...)
A San Giovannino Attributed to Michaelangelo Reconstructed 10/09/2013
Rarely a year, even a month, goes by without the discovery of a so called Michelangelo, be it Buonarroti or Merisi ! The readers of The Art Tribune are well aware as we regularly denounce these media scoops, often concerning works where an (...)
Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) 06/04/2008
Englishmen passing through Rome on their Grand Tour, the trip through Europe that any true aristocrat had to take, wanted their portrait done by him. This is probably why Pompeo Batoni, one of the great Italian painters of the second half of the (...)
Louyse Moillon. Still-lifes in the Grand Siècle. Catalogue raisonné 20/04/2009
Some books defy critical review. It would be easier to simply not even attempt it and brush them off politely but this has not been our choice of solution. The lack of a monographic study on Louise Moillon (we continue to prefer this (...)
The destruction of France’s churches 24/05/2007
In November 2006, we spoke out against the demolition of the church in Saint-Georges-des Gardes, in Maine-et-Loire. An article in Le Figaro May 18, 2007 informs us that two other religious buildings are to be destroyed just a few kilometres away (...)
Mexico at the Louvre. Masterpieces from New Spain, 17th and 18th centuries. 09/05/2013
Among the positive actions exerted by Henri Loyrette as head of the Louvre there is the undeniable effort to extend the scope of the painting and sculpture collections to previously unexplored territories. This was notably the case first for (...)
Reopening of the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence 20/08/2007
The latest trend in inaugurations is doing it twice. The former French Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, did not hesitate in officially celebrating the opening of empty museums, weeks or even months before the public could gain (...)
Fra Angelico, the French Wealth Tax and the Collector 03/11/2012
The Musée Thomas-Henry which was attempting to acquire the panel by Fra Angelico auctioned off last Saturday in Marseille by SVV Leclère failed to purchase the work. The painting fragment in fact sold for 445,000€ (552,000€ including charges) and (...)
Geneva Purchases a Panorama des Alpes by Gustave Courbet 20/05/2014
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 (...)
Nicolas Régnier 03/12/2008
The Syndicat National des Antiquaires has just awarded its art book prize to Nicolas Régnier by Annick Lemoine. It rewards a remarkable monographic study, both erudite and pleasantly readable, which is the fruit of many long years of research and (...)
The Rijksmuseum Reopens after a Ten-year Renovation 25/04/2013
After closing for ten years, due to various delays in the renovation project, the Rijksmuseum finally reopened its doors to the public on 13 April. Fortunately, it was well worth the wait. When first learning that Wilmotte was in charge of the (...)
The Tragi-comic Mishaps of the Louvre Abou-Dhabi 16/04/2013
Libération in a byline signed Vincent Noce was the first to break the news. We congratulate him for his investigation on the snags encountered in the Louvre Abou-Dhabi project and for having managed to put his hands on the letter sent by the (...)
Segantini 16/02/2011
A very well known artist in Italy, Switzerland and Austria, Giovanni Segantini is still under estimated and practically unknown in France where, unless we are mistaken, his paintings cannot be found in any museum. Orsay owns a drawing and the (...)
Contact 02/11/2008
The Art Tribune / La Tribune de l’Art Tél : 00 33 (0)1 53 40 82 93 Email : contact[at]latribunedelart.com To contact directly : Didier Rykner : didier.rykner[at]latribunedelart.com Tél : 00 33 (0)1 53 40 89 82 Cell phone : 00 33 (0)6 18 90 72 (...)
The Jewish Funeral by Magnasco exhibited at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme 21/01/2011
The painting by Alessandro Magnasco, whose acquisition we announced here was presented on 19 January at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme by the Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterand. The Company who acted as patron in entirely funding the (...)
After the exhibition in Evreux devoted to Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne and Nicolas de Plattemontagne, after the retrospective on Philippe de Champaigne in Lille, the Musée de Port-Royal is now highlighting these three artists by presenting their (...)
Félicie de Fauveau (1801-1886), the Amazon of Sculpture 08/05/2013
We have already spoken on two occasions about the exhibition at the Historial de Vendée on Félicie de Fauveau, one of the best French sculptors of the 19th century. Everyone knows how cinema has helped to make Camille Claudel, another great woman (...)
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. (...)
Latest acquisitions of the Musée de la Vie Romantique 03/12/2009
As active as ever, the Musée de la Vie Romantique generally acquires one important work a year. It also receives donations and the current year has seen particularly generous and interesting ones join its collections. The most important (...)
Barocci : Brilliance and Grace 11/04/2013
The "Urbinate" : although this adjective refers to Raphael in the minds of many, it applies almost equally to Federico Barocci. Of these two Renaissance geniuses born in Urbino, the latter spent most of his life there after two stays in Rome (...)
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture 03/12/2008
Organizing sculpture exhibitions is a difficult task as the size and weight of the works make them difficult to transport, sometimes even impossible, at other times highly unadvisable. Baroque sculpture is even harder to present outside of its (...)
The Dusseldorf School 22/11/2011
When German museums set up an exhibition, they usually do not do things halfway. After the sweeping retrospective on the Master of Naumburg which we discussed here, the current one on the Dusseldorf school, organized by the Kunstpalast which (...)
Boston Purchases a Masterpiece by Frans Francken II 20/03/2012
On 28 April 2010, a painting by Frans Francken had caused quite a sensation when sold for 7,022,000€ at the Dorotheum in Vienna. Exceptional in every way within the artist’s production, for its size, ambition and quality, it had gone to the (...)
Rediscovery of An Annunciation by François Le Moyne, on Loan to the National Gallery in London 19/12/2011
The catalogue raisonné of François Le Moyne by Jean-Luc Bordeaux, Arthéna Ed. 1985, lists a lost Annunciation under number 66. In his biography on Le Moyne, Count de Caylus explained that he thought the work had left for England. He was right (...)
A Painting and a Watercolor by Papety Donated to the Musée Fabre 04/03/2013
These past two years, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, the region’s most active institution in terms of acquisitions (both in quantity and quality) enriched its collections with two works by Dominique-Louis-Ferréol Papety thanks to the generosity of (...)
Bodies and Shadows. Caravaggio and European Caravaggism 13/08/2012
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 Coaches from Versailles on View at Arras 24/09/2012
We must admit : at first the partnership between Versailles and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Arras seemed to be a sensationalist operation, presumably useless and prejudicial, as are many of those initiated or approved by the president of the (...)
Multispectral digitization is demonstrated at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille 22/09/2007
We met the director of Lumière Technology, Jean Pénicaut a few months ago. The photographic process marketed by this company struck us as being absolutely revolutionary. During the European Heritage Days last weekend, Alain Tapié, director of the (...)
The Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent reopened last May 05/10/2007
1. Charles van Rysselberghe (1850-1920) Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent Photo : D. Rykner Late May 2007, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Ghent reopened its doors after a four-year closing for renovation work. Little has changed in terms of (...)
Death of Roseline Bacou and Adeline Cacan de Bissy 06/03/2013
Roseline Bacou passed away last 8 February at the age of 89. After graduating from the University of Montpellier, she joined the Cabinet des dessins at the Louvre in 1949 where she spent her whole career, finishing from 1984 to 1988 as head of (...)
François-Xavier Fabre 18/01/2008
Some art historians of Neoclassicism use the expression “the three G’s” in designating David’s leading students : Girodet, Gros and Gérard to whom they at times add a fourth, Guérin, although he belonged to Regnault’s (...)
New drawing donations for ENSBA 15/04/2008
wo years ago we pointed out in La Tribune de l’Art the creation of an association to acquire drawings for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, named
The Cupid attributed to Michelangelo deposited at the Metropolitan Museum 23/06/2009
he cultural services of the French Embassy in the United States are located on 5th Avenue, not far from the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection.
The Louvre Invents the Gruyère Museum 03/10/2012
Many of you probably remember the words spoken above by the president of the Louvre during an interview in Le Figaro. We had already pointed out that there was no need to wait for the Louvre-Lens to observe the holes, the Louvre was full of (...)
Giovanni Bellini 17/11/2008
The Giovanni Bellini exhibition in Rome could have formed a sort of diptych with the one devoted to Mantegna at the Louvre. And yet they are as different as they could possibly be. Whereas the second one, well presented, intelligently focuses (...)
Jean-Patrice Marandel has been a curator at the LACMA for almost 15 years now. He is especially active in his acquisitions policy which is particularly discerning, often favoring Old Masters, French and Italian from the XVIth to the XVIIIth (...)
Projected statutes for Versailles : another loss for art history 03/05/2010
We had expressed our worries to Jean-Jacques Aillagon concerning his plans to change the statutes for the Etablissement public de Versailles who answered by saying : “it will not change the director’s prerogatives or his mission in any way”. On (...)
Versailles preempts a portrait of Mme du Barry by Francois-Hubert Drouais 07/05/2011
At the Boisgirard auction on 4 May at the Hotel Drouot, the chateau of Versailles preempted a Portrait of Mme du Barry as Flora painted by Francois-Hubert Drouais, for the amount of 98.000 euros (without (...)
Acquisition of a Francesco Trevisani and a Paul Huet by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Pau 06/10/2009
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Pau emphasizes the strong points in its collections with regular acquisitions. Two of the guidelines in this policy concern landscapes of the Southwest by 19th century (...)
Nicholas Penny to be appointed Director of the National Gallery in London 27/11/2007
Nicholas Penny, senior curator for sculptures at the National Gallery in Washington since 2002, will be appointed Director of the National Gallery in London as soon as the British Prime Minister,
