(AP) Residents of a sleepy French village in Bordeaux have been left dumbfounded after discovering their local 18th-century chateau was completely bulldozed by mistake. The mayor’s office in Yvrac ...
PARIS November 5 (Reuters) - The "Desk of the King" took nine years of work for the cabinetmakers of Louis XV, its rich inlays, secret drawers and innovative design making it one of the many ...
"The Glutton" opens in 1798 France, when a man named Tarare, chained to a hospital bed because he's reputed to be a cannibal, and the nuns who care for him are afraid. He does possess a famously ...
Typically, when experts think of drawings from this period, the male nude is the most familiar image, says Clark-Getty Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin, who spent time in Paris working alongside the ...
In a bid to expand its holding of historical art by women, Luxembourg’s National Museum of History and Art has acquired three works by the 18th century French portrait painter Monique Daniche. Though ...
She painted Marie Antoinette but survived the Reign of Terror, she was one of just four women ever admitted to France’s Royal Academy (or Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture), and now Anne ...
University of Cambridge historian Renaud Morieux was poring over materials at the National Archives in Kew when he came across a box holding three piles of sealed letters held together by ribbons. The ...
A gilded Versailles-esque home in Topanga, California, designed entirely in the authentic style of 18th-century French Rococo, has hit the market asking $4.85 million. The 8,000-square-home on Bellini ...
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