Tag: paris
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Bitten in the Eighth Circle: Bouguereau's Dante and Virgil in Hell
Published:• 11 min readA twenty-five-year-old academic painter spent eight months painting two damned souls biting each other in the eighth circle of hell. The Salon hung it on the back wall.
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The Painting He Could Not Stop Repainting: Monet's Woman with a Parasol
Published:• 10 min readMonet painted his wife Camille standing on a windy hilltop in 1875. Eleven years later, four years after she died, he painted her again from memory.
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The Mirror That Does Not Work: Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Published:• 11 min readManet's last great painting, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (1882), hides a mirror that does not work. Here is what is actually broken about it, and why.
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Orsay, Orangerie, Marmottan: A Paris Impressionism Itinerary
Published:• 17 min readImpressionism museum Paris guide. Three buildings hold ninety percent of the canvases. The Orsay, the Orangerie, and the Marmottan. Here's what to see and the order.
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The Eight Friends Who Made Impressionism: A Painters' Field Guide
Published:• 17 min readThe Impressionism painters were a small group of around fifteen friends in Paris in the 1870s. Here are the eight that mattered most, and what each one actually did.
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The Painting That Named a Movement: Monet's Impression, Sunrise
Published:• 15 min readImpressionism sunrise was painted by Claude Monet in Le Havre in 1872 and gave the entire movement its name. Here's the painting and the joke that named it.
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The Van Gogh Self Portrait Orsay Holds Was Painted From Inside an Asylum
Published:• 12 min readThe Van Gogh self portrait Orsay visitors see was painted September 1889 inside the Saint-Remy asylum, three months before he shot himself.
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Musee d'Orsay vs Louvre: The Eight-to-One Density Gap Nobody Tells You
Published:• 12 min readMusee d'Orsay vs Louvre? The Louvre shows 35,000 works, the Orsay 4,000. The eight-to-one density gap is the only honest answer.
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How Long to Spend at Musee d'Orsay (And the Order to Do It In)
Published:• 12 min readHow long to spend at Musee d'Orsay? Three hours minimum, on three floors, in a specific order. Here's the route most guidebooks get wrong.
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Louvre Museum Venus de Milo: The Farm Field, the Broken Arms, and the Inscription the French Hid
Published:• 11 min readThe Louvre museum Venus de Milo was dug from a Greek farm in 1820. A French officer, an Ottoman agent, a lost plinth, a two-century cover-up.