Didier Rykner
Articles
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Gli spagnoli a Napoli. Il Rinascimento meridionaleWe only saw the exhibition a few days ago, and it closes this Sunday. We had heard great things about it, which is why we didn’t want to miss it, and the advice we received was excellent, as the…
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The liturgical refurbishment of Notre-Dame will calm the debateThe Archdiocese of Paris has just announced its plans for the redevelopment of Notre-Dame de Paris, which will be submitted to the CNPA (National Commission for Heritage and Architecture) on 13…
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The Vallayer-Coster acquired by the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonThe painting is superb, that’s for sure. It is painted by a woman, no less. This still life by Anne Vallayer-Coster was therefore the perfect choice for acquisition by the National Gallery of Art…
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A landscape by Patel preempted by the Musée du Grand SiècleThis was undoubtedly one of the finest pictures at Christie’s Paris sale on 15 June, but it was nevertheless sold for less than the low estimate. Such are the vagaries of auctions. Be that as it…
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Lie!On Tuesday 6 June, the Paris Council held a debate on the City Hall’s plan to redevelop the surroundings of Notre-Dame. Emmanuel Grégoire, the first deputy mayor, once again repeated an incredible…
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The few words we’ll be writing about CarnacThe case was revealed by the "Sites & Monuments" association and made the front page of many newspapers and TV channels: work was carried out on a site in Carnac without following the INRAP…
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The Fontainebleau woke festivalWe are very fond of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art, an annual three-day event that brings together a wide range of players from the museum, university, heritage and market worlds, as well as…
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Louvre: paper catalogue also available to download free of chargePublishing books on the internet - we did this recently thanks to Thierry Zimmer who entrusted us with his catalogue raisonné on the nineteenth-century painter Antoine Rivoulon (which you can…
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A painting by Beccafumi for the Pinacoteca di SienaSince February, this Italian museum, now run by a Frenchman, the former director of the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, Axel Hémery, has been showing a new painting by the 16th-century Sienese…
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"The museum has been very generous!""The museum has been very generous!" It is not uncommon to hear this phrase from exhibition curators to point out that this or that important work has been loaned, or that many of the objects on…