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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Age to the 1930's
Historien de l’art
Fernand Pelez. La parade des humbles 22/10/2009
In December 1913, a few months after he died, Fernand Pelez’ friends and family organized a retrospective of his work in his sumptuous workshop, at the foot of Montmartre : half a century of an artistic career, with its eclipses, was summed up in (...)
The Lure of the East. British Orientalist Painting 07/08/2008
Long gone is the time when Orientalism lived under terrorist threat. In less than thirty years Edward Said’s manifesto, Orientalism : Western Conceptions of the Orient, has lost much of its hold over researchers and collectors in the field. It is (...)
The Most Arrogant Man in France. Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture 01/01/2008
The Courbet retrospective and its catalogue will not be covered in this article as both present an excellent account of current knowledge and, except for laboratory exams, do not claim to offer any new information. Their work provides a complete (...)
Vincent van Gogh, The Lettres 12/11/2009
Writing to his brother, on Sunday 25 March 1888, Van Gogh remarked : “it might be interesting to save correspondence between artists.” This letter, which deserves to be preserved and studied, had been sent to him by the painter John Russell whom (...)
Thomas Hope. Regency Designer 06/04/2008
It seems that only the English know how to look at and exhibit decorative arts as a living matter, reflecting its strong hold over those who have made them an everyday companion in their lives or the instruments of an aesthetic (...)
Millais 16/11/2007
Crowds are flooding the Tate Britain and museum goers will never feel lonely when visiting the seven galleries composing this amazing exhibition. Even the late landscapes, the last moment of a well-paced tour which is perfectly presented, seduce (...)
At the court of Louis-Napoléon 19/10/2007
About a hundred objects and images, paintings, drawings as well as engravings, arranged in a delicate staging at the Institut néerlandais succeed in evoking this brief but important reign, at once unfortunate and fruitful. The exhibition presents (...)
Turner and the Masters 01/11/2009
Before opening at the Grand Palais on 22 February of next year, Turner and the Master has welcomed its first visitors, both numerous and enthusiastic, in London. This is due reward for a presentation which associates texts and images in such a (...)
