Didier Rykner
Articles
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The President of the Friends of the Louvre at the heart of several controversies
La Tribune de l’Art talks about museums and historic monuments from the point of view of art history. We are deliberately distancing ourselves from the other controversies that can arise in this…
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News from the Château de Compiègne (1): the catalogue of paintings on line
We haven’t written much about the Château de Compiègne since Rodolphe Rapetti took over the helm. We had a distorted view of his work because of the two exhibitions devoted to cars. Not that the…
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Musée de l’Œuvre de Notre-Dame: an opportunity for the Hôtel-Dieu
The regrettable affair of the Viollet-le-Duc stained glass windows (sign the petition) should not detract from a remarkable decision by the French President of the Republic, which cannot be…
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Contemporary stained glass windows at Notre-Dame: it’s possible, in the north tower
French President Emmanuel Macron and Mgr Ulrich, Archbishop of Paris, want to leave their mark on Notre-Dame cathedral by commissioning contemporary stained glass windows. While the idea of…
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La Tribune de l’Art launches a petition to save Notre-Dame’s stained glass windows
La Tribune de l’Art generally prefers to support petitions rather than launch them itself. But the announcement by the President of the Republic that he was going to replace some of…
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Notre-Dame: Musée de l’Œuvre on track, Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows under threat
The President of the French Republic today visited the Notre-Dame construction site, one year to the day before it is due to reopen to the public on 8 December 2024. The framework is almost…
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Several sculpture sales at Paris in December
Sculpture lovers are in for a treat this November, with no fewer than three sales featuring sculptures, particularly 19th-century bronzes. The first will take place tomorrow, Friday 8 December at…
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This Pichon was none other than an Ingres...
Pierre-Auguste Pichon was a close pupil and collaborator of Ingres. An interesting religious painter, he painted decorations for the churches of Saint-Eustache, Saint-Séverin, Saint-Sulpice and…
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Statue unbolted and Art Deco destroyed - yesterday’s sad news
If only there were a French Ministry of Culture responsible for heritage, that would be a good idea. Unfortunately, the joke is back in the news. Two events have just occurred, two events that we…
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Pierre Subleyras 1699-1749
"Which French painter, apart perhaps Nicolas Poussin, was like him the greatest painter of Rome?" Thus ends the long essay that precedes Nicolas Lesur’s catalogue raisonné of Pierre Subleyras, just…
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