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Stained Glass of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and the Relics of the Royal Palace on the Île de la Cité
The Sainte-Chapelle, a small Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité in Paris, within the grounds of the former Royal Palace, is famous precisely for its outstanding stained glass. The magnificent decoration of the chapel had to match the grandeur of the sacred relics kept in its treasury,
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On 16 October 1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was beheaded on the Place de la Révolution
On 16 October 1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was beheaded on the Place de la Révolution. In essence, the French Republic has still not acknowledged its crimes against the royal family, and has never reviewed the unjust, shameful trials of the royal family of France
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The Dress in Which Marie Antoinette Was Executed
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Snap me with Notre-Dame!
Snap me with Notre-Dame! Have you? Have you snapped it? Paris, 1952
Art · Museums · Paris · Ethnography
Taino and Kalinago chair on show at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris
A chair by craftsmen of the Antilles. A work of art by the Taíno and Kalinago peoples, who inhabited the Caribbean basin before the arrival of Columbus. Together with other examples of this culture, the chair is on show at the exhibition “Taínos and Kalinagos of the Antilles” in one
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Paris, View from the Arc de Triomphe in 1910
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Delightful Works at the “Wonders” Exhibition at the Sèvres Ceramics Museum in Paris
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The Galerie Dior presents a retrospective of the iconic suit, with the Bar jacket from the 1947 collection, for which Christian Dior changed the shape of the mannequin for the first time, achieving a feminine silhouette that became one of the most recogni
The Bar jacket has appeared in every Dior collection, but on this occasion the House's archive invites us to see how the garment changed under successive creative directors: Yves Saint Laurent's Sultan dress of 1958, Marc Bohan's white dress with a black hat of
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Musée d'Orsay opens exhibition on Gustave Caillebotte and his collection of Impressionists
I try to write honestly and to be worthy of having my pictures hung in the hallway of a house where Cézanne and Renoir will hang. Renoir called Gustave Caillebotte the Joan of Arc of painting: the scion of a wealthy family, an engineer who gave himself to art without
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Photographs of Paris in the Days of the Commune
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Parisian Fashion of 1908
The lady in the foreground of the first photograph is Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944); the woman captured in the third portrait is a German modernist artist and graphic designer