Didier Rykner
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Federico Barocci Urbino. L’emozione della pittura modernaThe Barocci retrospective currently taking place in Urbino, the artist’s birthplace where he spent most of his career, is curiously the first to be held there, but not the first to be devoted to him.…
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Many works by Jean Dupas for BordeauxArt Deco, too often the victim of vandalism (see the articles) and which no French national museum is interested in, the Musée National d’Art Moderne having always shied away from it, can at least…
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The ‘ephemeral’ Grand Palais must goNever, of course, should the Ministry of Culture or Paris City Council have agreed to the installation of the ‘ephemeral’ Grand Palais in front of the École Militaire, a building by Gabriel, one of…
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A Champaigne for CarnavaletIn 2022, the Musée Carnavalet acquired, from the dealer Ivan Rinaldi, an important painted sketch by Philippe de Champaigne in preparation for the tapestry representing The Birth of the Virgin…
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The crown of light, a new scandal at Notre-Dame de ParisAn article published three days ago in La Tribune, written by Philippe D’Indevillers, tells us that the chief architect of historic monuments, Philippe Villeneuve, regrets that ‘the archbishop of…
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A painting by Antoine Callet acquired by The HuntingtonIn 1778, the painter Antoine Callet was commissioned to paint a portrait of the French king Louis XVI for the Hôtel de la Guerre in Versailles. As Marie-Catherine Sahut writes, this commission gave…
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La Barben and the Champ-de-Mars, same battlesOne is in the countryside, in Provence, the other in Paris. But the threats facing the area around the Château de La Barben and the Champ-de-Mars, both of which are in the vicinity of historic…
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Jean Daret. Painter to the King in ProvenceMore than forty years ago, in 1978, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille organised an exhibition devoted to 17th-century painting in Provence. Three artists stood out from the crowd: Reynaud…
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The Ministry of Culture indifferent to the fate of the Maison Marrou in RouenL’une des principales missions du ministère de la Culture consiste à protéger le patrimoine. Il est donc inacceptable que celui-ci, régulièrement, refuse de protéger les monuments historiques…
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Hôtel de la Monnaie: the Ministry of Culture is trying to be reassuringThis morning’s article in Libération was of great concern to heritage defenders. Were we once again going to have to fight against the French State for attacking a classified historic monument on the…
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