A French heiress has given up her legal battle to reclaim a Camille Pissarro painting looted from her parents by the Nazis. Léone Meyer said that she had…
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The Louvre has appointed Laurence Des Cars as its first female president. She has now announced plans to launch a department devoted to Byzantine and Coptic…
A portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, which was previously unknown, was discovered. The painting depicts a man holding a manuscript of music. When the painting was discovered,…
A painting, titled Lot with His Two Daughters Serving Him a Drink, by Nicolas poussin which the Nazis looted from its Jewish owner in France during the…
The Musée d’Orsay, one of Paris’s most popular museums, will rename itself after Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who served as France’s President from 1974 to 1981 and…
The Louvre museum in Paris has just put its entire collection online. The entire collection consisting of more than 482,000 pieces will be on display online which makes it…
The 70-metre (230 feet) long Bayeux Tapestry, held at a museum in the northern French town of the same name, is a fragile object suffering from…
Yan Pei-Ming will showcase a vast painting focused on the Covid-19 pandemic next month. The painting derives its inspiration from the Isenheim altarpiece, a masterpiece of…
The Paris Biennale was once the one of the most prestigious art and design event in the French Capital. But now its coming to an end…
Sotheby’s says it will offer items from the homes of fashion designer and voracious art collector Karl Lagerfeld, who died two years ago at the age…