In Paris, the Louvre is planning a major exhibition devoted to Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1748-Brussels, 1825), a great painter associated with the Neoclassical movement, the leading one in Napoleonic France. Curated by Sébastien Allard, Gene...
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In Melun, in the department of Seine and Marne (France), an important corner of ancient history has resurfaced. A team fromINRAP, the National Research Institute of Preventive Archaeology, in collaboration with the Departmental Archaeology Service (S...
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The Louvre Museum, a worldwide symbol of art and culture, experienced a day of tension and forced closure when its employees called a sudden strike yesterday, Monday, June 16, to protest working conditions that have become, in their words, untenable....
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It was considered a simple copy, but turned out to be an extremely rare original by Auguste Rodin (Paris, 1840 - Meudon, 1917) small marble sculpture titled Le Désespoir (The Despair), made in 1892, was recently authenticated and sold at aucti...
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The Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, northern France, announces that it has discovered what the institution says is an unpublished painting by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614), one of the greatest painters of the 16th century.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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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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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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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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