Tag: paris
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Notre-Dame de Paris: The Cathedral That Burned and Came Back
Published:• 11 min readNotre-Dame de Paris burned for fifteen hours in April 2019 and reopened five years later. What the fire took, what it saved, and what eight hundred years of stone still does for the people who walk in.
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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.