Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges
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A painting by Niccolò Betti donated to the UffiziIn memory of his father, Alfredo Moretti, a famous Tuscan art dealer, Fabrizio Moretti, Secretary General of the Florence International Biennial of Antiquaries, has donated to the Uffizi Museum a…
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A painting by Jacques Stella given to the LouvreJacques Stella depicted the Saint Family on several occasions, varying the number of figures from one version to another. One of his paintings, intended for private devotion, features Mary, Jesus…
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Lyon gets a new Fleury RichardFleury Richard is credited with the invention of a new style that was later called troubadour painting, the first example of which was his Valentine of Milan mourning the death of her husband,…
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A painting by Pedro Orrente acquired by the PradoAdonis is the fruit of incest, born of the union of Myrrha with her own father, Cinyras, king of Cyprus. The arrogant Cinyras had claimed that his daughter’s beauty surpassed that of Aphrodite.…
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Restoration of the Porte Dorée at the Château de FontainebleauWhat remains of the original decoration? The 16th-century frescoes that adorn the Porte Dorée of the Château de Fontainebleau are in a sorry state, victims of the passage of time, climatic…
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Sargent’s painting donated to the Norton MuseumIt is difficult to perceive the adventuress behind this vaporous woman who poses in her elegant white dress, pearls around her neck, a large flowered hat at the end of her black-gloved arm, while…
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The Mauritshuis buys a painting by Balthasar van der AstIn the 1620s and 1630s, a tulip epidemic swept through the northern part of the United Provinces, driving up prices beyond measure and leading to the "tulip crisis" in 1637. Among the most…
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Musée d’Orsay buys a pastel by DevambezA jack-of-all-trades, both popular and academic, André Devambez has been brought out of oblivion thanks to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes and the Petit Palais in Paris, which have devoted an…
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Several works by Charles Cottet acquired by Brestt is the sea that leads, at sunset, this long cortege of black mantises, like a procession of widows, towards the distant bell tower where Low Mass sounds; It is for the sea, no doubt, that all…
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A painting by Millet bought by CherbourgAlthough Jean-François Millet was above all a painter of peasants, he tried his hand at the great genre of history during his formative years: having left Cherbourg for Paris, he entered the École…