Didier Rykner
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Acquisitions: news from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (2)Our previous news item about the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes (which dealt with restorations and the launch of the online collections database) was published in March. We should have published…
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Some online art history journals (1)As we’ve often written, online art-history journals - we’re talking here about journals publishing in-depth articles, not art-history and heritage information websites - are numerous, but complex…
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Esplanade des Invalides and Champ-de-Mars: a case study in misinformationSacking Paris, as foreign tourists visiting the French capital can see, is not the only activity of Paris City Council. It also has a passion for denying the facts, even though these can be…
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The Studio of Alphonse de Neuville by Marie-Désiré Bourgoin acquired by OrsayAlthough Marie-Désiré Bourgoin is a little known artist, the fame of Sarah Bernhardt, to whom the Musée du Petit Palais devoted an exhibition that has just ended, helped to make some of his works…
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Back to L’Aquila (6). Duomo restoration work finally beginsIn 1703, the L’Aquila earthquake almost completely destroyed the cathedral, which was rebuilt by the Roman architect Sebastiano Cipriani from 1711 onwards, only to be reopened in 1780, the…
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A new Géricault for the Metropolitan MuseumThanks to a gift from Christopher Forbes, this major American museum has just acquired a new painting by Théodore Géricault. The small-scale work is not an easy subject, since it depicts General…
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A painting by Stanzione donated to WashingtonPaintings that do not depict slaves or that are not painted by women can enter the National Gallery in Washington, but this is now quite rare. Fortunately, there are still donors who are not…
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Back to L’Aquila (5). The rediscovered frescoes of Santa Maria della MisericordiaThe destruction caused by earthquakes can sometimes be offset by the rediscovery of works that had remained hidden for centuries. This is the case in L’Aquila, notably in a small church that is…
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Death of General Jean-Louis GeorgelinThe information comes from the newspaper L’Opinion and was tweeted less than an hour ago, and we have been able to confirm it. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who had been appointed to head the…
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Back to L’Aquila (4). An exhibition about the Maestro di Campo di GioveAs part of the tour of the Museo Nationale d’Abruzzo, from 26 May until 3 September there is a very interesting focused exhibition accompanying the recent acquisition of four panels depicting…
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