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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 (...)
Frans Hals. Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian 19/04/2013
Comparing is not enough. The Haarlem exhibition on Frans Hals, an "adoptive" native son, which attempts to associate the artist with 16th century Venetian painting and also with some of his contemporaries, is a perfect illustration of these (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Threat of demolition for the church of Saint Jacques in Abbeville 30/05/2010
The church of Saint Jacques in Abbeville is located in a neighborhood spared by the bombings which destroyed 80% of the city in 1940. It was built in a neo-Gothic style by the architect Victor Deleforterie, a follower of Viollet-le-Duc, on the (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
To Save the Church, Press 1 ; to Destroy It, Press 2 12/09/2013
Last Sunday, the village of Plouagat, in the Côtes d’Armor, held a vote asking residents whether or not they wanted their church destroyed or restored. The result is very clear since 80% of those who participated chose the restoration, despite a (...)
Symposia 14/04/2006
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 (...)
The Burning Bush by Nicolas Froment now restored 10/08/2010
The famous triptych of the Burning Bush by Nicolas Froment, painted in 1475-1476 for the funerary chapel of Roi Rene’ in the church of the Grands-Carmes at Aix-en-Provence, has resided in the Cathedrale Saint-Sauveur since the 19th century. It (...)
Three exhibitions currently showing : Moreau, Dessins français, Impressionnisme 04/05/2010
The only fault of the exhibitions generally held at the Fondation Custodia is that they are too short. This one, although based on its own collections, follows the rule as it will have lasted only two months whereas New Yorkers were able to (...)
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 (...)
Adam and Eve and Paradise Lost by Claude-Marie Dubufe acquired by Nantes 22/10/2008
Last fall during the Talabardon & Gautier Gallery’s latest exhibition in Paris two paintings had created quite a sensation among 19th century French art enthusiasts.
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 (...)
The myth of the Far West in American art 1830-1940 07/12/2007
With American culture ever more present in Europe, for better or worse, it is strange that XIXth C. painting and sculpture in the United States have been so overlooked. Still, it is often the case in their own country as well where Western (...)
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 (...)
A pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour bequeathed to Orleans 07/03/2011
Eighteenth century French pastels represent one of the most prestigious holdings in the collections at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orleans. The museum has just added to this wealthy ensemble with a major acquisition, a previously unpublished (...)
The "Inexpensive" Beaubourg Circus Is finally... too Expensive 21/05/2013
The Beaubourg Circus is finally over. Alain Seban had once stated that "the structure of the ’Centre Pompidou mobile’ which he [had] set up [was] ’not expensive’". Today he explains that the experiment is ending "for lack of funding needed to (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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Marie d’Orléans. Princess and Romantic artist. 1813-1839 06/07/2008
Marie d’Orléans (ill. 1), daughter of a king, holds an ambiguous place in art history. Many see only the whims of a rich young girl in her sculpting activities. Dead at the age of twenty-five, her obviously reduced body of work was soon forgotten (...)
Jean-Léon Gérôme 12/11/2010
With the Cabanel retrospective still on in Montpellier, the Musée d’Orsay is highlighting Jean-Léon Gérôme while also presenting an exhibition on Claude Monet at the Grand Palais. This is no coincidence, simply proof that French museums are finally (...)
Two Appointments for Heads of Department at the Louvre Submitted to the French Minister of Culture 18/06/2013
The directors of the departments at the Louvre are appointed by the French Minister of Culture based on proposals made by the President of the Museum. He has now submitted two names to Aurélie Filippetti to head the Département des Arts (...)
Contact 02/11/2008
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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 (...)
Imperiled museums (1) : Auxerre 03/12/2009
The Abbaye Saint-Germain, housing the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire d’Auxerre, is made up of a group of buildings centered around an 18th century cloister. In the 20th century, the site was occupied by a hospital which moved in 1962, except for the (...)
A chronicle of planned acquisitions : Poussin for Montpellier and Ingres for the Louvre 10/11/2009
We have already mentioned several times the Musée Fabre’s project to buy a fragment of a Nicolas Poussin painting for which it already owns the right side, Venus and Adonis. The two pieces had been brought together for the exhibition Poussin and (...)
The Imbroglio Concerning Nicolas Tournier’s Christ Carrying the Cross 07/11/2011
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 (...)
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 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 (...)
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 (...)
Two Paintings by Alexandre Roslin for Versailles and Stockholm 06/12/2013
A Swedish artist who arrived in France around 1752 where he lived the rest of his life, Alexander Roslin (whose name is often written in French as Alexandre) was one of the major portraitists active in Paris in the second half of the 18th (...)
A New Feudal System 18/05/2013
Does an elected official have the right to do whatever he likes ? This is in any case the impression given by more and more mayors who deliberately ignore the law and court decisions. The State seems to have patently resigned itself to this (...)
The Church of St Jacques in Abbeville near Destruction 05/02/2013
Nicolas Dumont, the mayor of Abbeville, must be feeling proud of himself. His strategy of letting the matter fester indefinitely will soon be the undoing of the church of Saint Jacques. We had provided a lengthy description here of the (...)
An Exceptional Eugène Isabey Acquired by Montreal at the TEFAF 21/03/2013
Who is this dead officer being cast into the sea from a French ship with a cannon salute ? The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, which has just purchased this imposing and magnificent painting at the Maastricht Fair, from Richard Feigen, will (...)
In France, increased sentences for thefts and vandalism of cultural objects 10/08/2008
The French Minister of Culture Christine Albanel had stated several times that she wished to have sentences for art work thefts increased, an urgent step as these were until
The Exhibition "L’Héritage de van der Weyden" : the Opaqueness of the Musées Royaux 22/11/2013
We received the official press release from the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts today announcing the definitive closing of the exhibition "Les suiveurs de Roger van der Weyden". But the story behind this statement is not quite as clear as the (...)
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 (...)
The Ecole du Louvre Comes to the Rescue of Religious Heritage 07/03/2013
La Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, presided by Olivier de Rohan is an approved public utility association created in 1921 whose aim is essentially to preserve the chapels and churches in France. In partnership with the Junior Entreprise at the Ecole (...)
The Amis du Musée in Morliax Worried about its Future 26/11/2013
Last summer we had pointed out the interesting exhibition at the Musée de Morlaix highlighting Louis Marie Baader, a welcome retrospective which focused on an artist who is well represented with several works in the museum, reflecting the (...)
The Louvre preempts a drawing at Christie’s Paris 17/04/2008
On 10 April 2008, Christie’s sold a XVIth century drawing, a preparation for a mural in the Galerie de Troie at the Chateau d’Oiron, a rare example of secular art for this period still preserved in (...)
The architect in charge of Versailles represents himself as a Roman emperor 12/10/2008
The French association for heritage protection, Momus (Monuments, Musées, Sites et Monuments), makes a very revealing disclosure on its new website
