How Fixing a Spelling Error Clarified a Clock’s History
A clue in a sale catalog helped expand the object’s record
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French art
Video: The Art of Making a Tapestry
Visit a traditional workshop in France to discover the art of weaving.
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Research Uncovers New Clues to the Histories of 250-Year-Old Decorative Objects
Four artworks, four intriguing personalities.
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Seven European Paintings from LACMA Now On View at the Getty
LACMA masterpieces in the Getty Center galleries.
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Exhibition Manet and Modern Beauty Explores the Artist’s Last Years
A new exhibition focuses on Manet as a painter of modern life.
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A “Fish Chandelier”
The fanciful nature of a 19th century chandelier revealed
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A Mysterious Man of Nineteenth-Century Paris
Uncovering the identity of a mysterious old man who inhabits nineteenth-century French art.
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Meet the Real François-Thomas Germain, Sculptor-Silversmith of the Enlightenment
A tale of a French silversmith and his video-game double.
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A Royal Profile in Leather
Why depict Louis XIV in leather?
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The Hand of Louis XV
A disembodied hand is all that remains of a once-mighty emblem of royal power.
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The Epic Creation of a Last Masterpiece
An equestrian statue of Louis XV required 15 years of labor and 30 tons of metal.
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Meet the Controversial Cupid of Eighteenth-Century France
This Cupid once decorated a king’s love nest.
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