Didier Rykner
Articles
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Launch of a partnership between La Tribune de l’Art and Qobuz
La Tribune de l’Art is only interested in the plastic arts (paintings, drawings, sculptures, decorative arts...), architecture and heritage, over a precise period (from the Middle Ages to the…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: we have been too lenient
We try, contrary to what some may believe, to find positive points in the projects of the Municipality of Paris. Thus, for the development of the Notre-Dame area, we had initially written that…
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Jardin de l’Archevêché: when the Paris municipality makes fun of the CNPA
On 11 May, the CNPA (Commission Nationale du Patrimoine et de l’Architecture will examine the area around Notre-Dame, and in particular the future of the Jean XXIII and Île-de-France squares. For…
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A Portrait of a Capitoul by Jean Chalette for the Musée du Grand Siècle
etween 1295 and 1787, the municipality of Toulouse, directed by the Capitouls (equivalent to the échevins and consuls) elected annually, enriched a large book of the city which included, among…
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Hôtel Mezzara : Take the money and run
In our first article on Hector Guimard’s Hotel Mezzara, written in April 2020, Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges wrote: "It is to be believed that heritage is considered a burden and that all pretexts…
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Fundraising campaign from Langres for a sketch by Doyen
Very active in the field of acquisitions as our series of recently published articles demonstrates, the Langres museums deserve to be encouraged. This is the first reason why the subscription…
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A petition to save the jardin de l’Archevêché
The disappearance of Paris, which we denounced in our book published last year, far from slowing down, is accelerating, as if the ever-stronger opposition of its inhabitants made the municipality…
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Jean-Pierre Samoyault’s reaction to the purchase of Winterhalter’s copy
In the email received from Marie-Christine Labourdette justifying the preemption by the Château de Fontainebleau of a copy of Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s painting: The Empress Eugenie Surrounded by…
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The Art Nouveau Madeleine Lavatory finally restored
Good news is so rare for the Parisian heritage that it must be mentioned, even if this one would not have been necessary in any other context, because the monument would not have been so long in…
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Naples for passion. Masterworks from the De Vito collection
We were probably among the first in France to talk about the De Vito Foundation, housed in the Villa di Olmo in the Tuscan countryside a few kilometres from Florence, which preserves a remarkable…