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France, Douai museum announces discovery of a rare portrait of Lavinia Fontana

The Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, northern France, announces that it has discovered what the institution says is an unpublished painting by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614), one of the greatest painters of the 16th century. The ...
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France, version of Guido Reni's Atalanta and Hippomenes resurfaces: search to see if it is autographed

A version of Guido Reni 'sAtalanta e Ippomene has resurfaced in France that, according to the museum that owns it, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Libourne, Aquitaine, may be an autograph by the great Bolognese artist who, as'is known to have pai...
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Turin, at the Mastio della Cittadella an exhibition dedicated to Gauguin and his Polynesia

From March 1 to June 29, 2025, the Mastio della Cittadella - National Artillery Historical Museum in Turin will host the exhibition Gauguin. The Diary of Noa Noa and Other Adventures, curated by Vincenzo Sanfo, dedicated to the famous French painter....
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Louvre, critical situation: moves President Macron

The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, will visit the Louvre next Tuesday, following leaked reports about the museum's precarious condition. The day before yesterday, in fact, the newspaper Le Parisien published a confidential note (o...
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Paris, at the Centre Pompidou a monographic exhibition dedicated to Suzanne Valadon, one of the most modern painters of the early 20th century

In Paris at the Centre Pompidou a monographic exhibition dedicated to one of the most modern painters of the early 20th century, Suzanne Valadon (Bessines sur Gartempe, 1865 - Paris, 1938), opened to the public on January 15, 2025. Since the last mon...
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The story of beauty told through the works of the Louvre, in collaboration with L'Oréal

The Louvre Museum has launched De toutes beautés, an innovative cultural mediation program, supported by the L'Oréal Group, that invites visitors to explore more than 10,000 years of art and history through 108 selected works. This guid...
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Like a trip to the French Midi: what the Matisse exhibition in Mestre is like.

Constructed like a journey is the fine exhibition that the MUVE-Candiani Cultural Center has dedicated to Henri Matisse, a journey to that "Midi" in which, as art historian André Chastel guessed, "French modern art" was born, which in that par...
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In Montmartre, inside the apartment where Suzanne Valadon, the painter of the infernal trio lived.

On the second floor of the Musée de Montmartre, a museum I recently visited during a stay in Paris almost by chance, since it is not (fortunately or unfortunately) on the usual tourist circuits of the French capital, I had a pleasant surprise:...
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