Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.

Last spring, the world’s most-visited art museum, the Louvre in Paris, proposed moving its most popular artwork—Leonardo da ...

Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...

Rectangular 2025 Proof gold €50 coins featuring a pair of Rembrandt paintings are among offerings in the continuing French ... portraits are lucky to have never been separated since the 17th ...

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When the Savoy came to power in 1860, 18th-century French portraits were added to the room. In the Medici era, this was the Audience Room of Grand Prince Ferdinando’s apartment (1663-1713). Under the ...

For the first time, the Louvre hosts a stunning fashion exhibition, where the legacies of Chanel, Balenciaga, and Versace ...

Statement Pieces” marks the prestigious museum’s first foray into fashion, with a sprawling exhibition dedicated to the ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...

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