Restorations
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Restorations at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in RennesThe DJ (or disc-jockeys) of electro music - the Shindi collective - asked the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes to shoot a video clip in the heart of the permanent exhibition. There was no danger to…
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The fontaine des Innocents restored, Goujon’s nymphs to join "a museum"The restoration of the Fontaine of the Innocents is finally coming to an end. This is good news, especially as the restoration work appears to have been carried out with great care and respect…
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Rennes seeks sponsors to restore a tapestry cartonAs Fate would have it, some of the tapestries from the Parlement de Bretagne that were not destroyed in the fire of 1994 disappeared in 1997 in a fire in the restoration workshop where they had…
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Fundraising launched to restore Saint-Louis de VincennesOf course, you have to push open the door. From the street, its silhouette is austere, clad in millstone and red brick, but inside, the Saint-Louis de Vincennes church reveals admirable…
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The Musée Jeanne d’Aboville restores its collectionsThe restored painting returned to the collections of the Musée Jeanne d’Aboville in La Fère last December, but not for long, as it will be loaned to the Musée de Besançon next spring. Its restoration…
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Interview with Mathilde Augé, Executive Director of WMF FranceThe World Monument Fund is an international organisation dedicated to safeguarding architecture and heritage. It had an affiliate office in France that took part in numerous restoration projects…
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Fundraising to restore the Bulliot VirginThe hoped-for sum has almost been raised! Last June, a fundraising campaign was launched to finance the restoration of the so-called the Bulliot Virgin, a Gothic masterpiece from the Musée d’Autun…
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Apollon finally returns to VersaillesIn many respects, some of the jewels in the national collections are like survivors, having outlived both natural disasters and the upheavals of history, not to mention the harmful consequences…
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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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Two paintings by Bouguereau restored at Saint-Vincent-de-PaulThis is about the only cause for satisfaction in Paris, but it is real: the restoration of the churches is progressing and we are even late in describing all the operations that have already been…
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