Didier Rykner
Articles
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A donation of Italian drawings from the Ottocento to Yale
The 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 Kassel
The 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 English
La 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 Pau
t 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 sector
Only 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…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: facts versus propaganda
The defense of the gardens of Notre-Dame is also a battle of communication. Thus, the article by Claire Bommelaer in Le Figaro, very factual and well informed, was titled - in the print edition:…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: the CNPA wants to keep the gates
La CNPA (Commission nationale de l’architecture et du patrimoine) se réunissait donc ce matin pour aborder la question des abords de Notre-Dame. Le problème de ce type de commissions est qu’elles…
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The law that imposes gates around Square Jean XXIII
Thanks to social networks, some Internet users can quickly disseminate vital information that can help advance heritage protection issues. For example, a Twitter account that prefers to remain…
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Three preemptions from Orléans at the Talabardon & Gautier sale
Of the 14 museum preemptions at the Talabardon & Gautier sales on 21 and 23 March, we have already dealt with six. Thanks to this news item, and to the once again remarkable activity of the…