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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?
The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The series of artworks will be reunited at ...
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Expert Rediscovers Painting by Renaissance Master Lavinia Fontana, One of the First Professional Female Artists
The artwork had been hiding in plain sight in the archives of a provincial museum in France, where it will eventually go on ...
Painting Hung in Family Home for 150 Years—Then They Discovered Its Value
Auctioneer Malo de Lussac stumbled on a true treasure: an original oil-on-canvas painting by Eugène Delacroix, one of France's greatest 19th-century Romantic artists. The piece, titled Study of ...
Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under ...
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Jack Vettriano death: Scottish painter behind iconic The Singing Butler found dead at French apartment
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ... He taught himself by studying art at the Kirkcaldy Galleries. His early paintings were imitations of the work of other artists ...
Hidden paintings discovered under plaster in 13th-century church in France. See them
Restorations in a 13th-century church revealed paint and symbols previously ... Research On the northwestern tip of France ...
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Hidden paintings discovered under plaster in 13th-century church in France. See them
Restorations in a 13th-century church revealed paint and ... tip of France where the English Channel meets the Celtic Sea, the inlet city of Morlaix traces its history to the Romans.