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Death of Dewey F. Mosby 14/08/2012
Dewey F. Mosby left us last 1st August at the age of 70. This American art historian, born in Texas and a Harvard graduate, Officier des Arts et Lettres, a longstanding member of the Société de l’Histoire de l’Art français was well known by French (...)
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Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille : Catalogue sommaire des sculptures 04/01/2010
Blessed are those virtuous museums, and here the adjective is doubly qualifying, which find virtue very simply, and very bravely, in studying and publishing their holdings ! This is a cardinal task for institutions but often ignored if not (...)
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Outside the French-Spanish Exchanges of 1941. Viollet-le-Duc’s Cabinet : A Case where Deaccessioning Was Happily Avoided 02/01/2012
An indirect, and unexpected, consequence of the French-Spanish exchanges of 1941, the transfer to Spain of a large part of the Visigoth crowns from the Musée de Cluny resulted in another case of potential deaccessioning which is well worth (...)
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