Paris, Musée du Louvre
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Impossible to escape the Olympic Games"There may be some who would like to do something else..." suggested Raymond Devos, a French comedian, in a falsely ingenuous tone in a sketch entitled "Faites l’amour, pas la guerre" ("Make love,…
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The Louvre buys a drawing by Jacques BellangeThis is certainly one of the most beautiful sheets by Jacques Bellange to reappear on the market in recent years, and we mentioned it in article on the Christie’s sale on 20 March 2024. The Musée…
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The Louvre preempts a masterpiece by Claude BeissonatDiscovered in autumn 2023 in Paris during its first exhibition at Alexandre Lacroix and Élodie Jeannest de Gyvès, this Immaculate Conception immediately established itself as the most beautiful…
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A masterpiece from the Limousin region enters the LouvreAvidly collected by numerous enthusiasts in the 19th century, medieval works of art remain above all survivors of the upheavals of history, the ravages of time and destruction of all kinds,…
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Two Pietro Lorenzetti make their debut at the LouvreAlthough announced at the end of November, the rediscovery of two previously unseen panels by Pietro Lorenzetti by the Tajan auction house and the experts at Turquin immediately raised the hopes…
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The President of the Friends of the Louvre at the heart of several controversiesLa 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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Claude Gillot, a stillborn exhibitionThe Claude Gillot exhibition at the Louvre lasted less than three days. The exhibition has been unhooked, and lenders are already seeing the return of works they had theoretically loaned for…
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The Treasury of Notre-Dame cathedralContrary to what you might read here or there (and even in some of the texts of the remarkable catalogue accompanying the Louvre exhibition), the treasury of Notre-Dame cathedral was not saved…
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A new Chardin soon at the LouvreNever two without three? This formula rarely works for the beloved ’French national treasures’, who have all too often got into the habit of taking flight abroad, but both the Musée du Louvre and…
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Cimabue’s panel finally acquired for the LouvreHonour to the regional daily press: it was Oise Hebdo that had the luxury of announcing the arrival in the French collections of the now famous panel by Cimabue discovered during an inventory in…
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