Didier Rykner
Articles
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Threats to the heritage of the Faubourg Saint-AntoineThe under-protection of France’s heritage, particularly in Paris, the incomprehensible lack of "sites patrimoniaux remarquables" in the capital with the exception of those in the 7th…
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A painting by Mattia Preti enters the National Gallery in WashingtonAt the end of January 2023, Sotheby’s New York sold several 17th century paintings, notably Italian, from the Fisch-Davidson collection. Some of them have found their way into museums: we reported…
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Antoine Caron, an exhibition at the Château d’ÉcouenThe excellent retrospective exhibition devoted by the Château d’Écouen to the painter Antoine Caron, in addition to its many qualities, boasts an extraordinary feat that should encourage any art…
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It is time to respect the Louvre ColonnadeA meeting was organized today at the Paris Centre City Hall by its mayor Ariel Weil to launch a reflection on the "Place du Louvre," an inappropriate term since this one, which is in front of the…
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A donation of Italian drawings from the Ottocento to YaleThe New Haven Museum has just received a major acquisition: an entire collection of nineteenth-century Italian drawings has been donated and sold by New York collectors Roberta Olson and…
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A painting by Cornelis de Baellieur for KasselThe Gemäldegalerie in Kassel received as a gift from a collector last year a painting by the Flemish painter Cornelis de Baellieur depicting the Christ Carrying His Cross, painted on copper and of…
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The Fitzwilliam Museum is looking for its "Empowering Culture Program Manager"This is a very curious position that the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has just opened, and it released the job description a few days ago. The job description, which consists of running a…
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La Tribune de l’Art is now bilingual, in French and EnglishLa Tribune de l’Art is an online news magazine specialising in art history and heritage from the Middle Ages to the 1930s. It has been in existence for twenty years, and from now on it will also…
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The bay horse of Henri IV arrives in Paut was undoubtedly one of the most beautiful paintings of the Talabardon & Gautier sales, which we had already spotted on their gallery stand during the 2017 edition of Tefaf New York devoted…
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Benin bronzes from German museums returned to the private sectorOnly the naive (to put it mildly) will be surprised. It was bound to happen, and it is happening even sooner than we thought: a massive restitution operation has turned into a farce, and works…