The Musée d’Orsay hopes the restoration of ‘A Burial at Ornans’—once a Salon scandal, now a pride of the Paris museum—will unlock some of its secrets and reveal the painting to be even bigger and bolder than it appears now
The work by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery, where the sprawling exhibition is being held
Karma gallery, now representing the influential artist’s estate in the US, will reveal his circus-themed paintings at Art Basel Miami Beach and his ‘wild’ portraiture next year
The French culture minister insists the move is “a handover, not a restitution, in that these objects have never been part of French public collections”
The grandchildren of Ras Desta Damtew, an Ethiopian general and noble, are seeking to recover the piece, listed in the online auction catalogue as coming from the estate of an Italian soldier who was present at Desta Damtew’s execution
Over four years, and often perched on scaffolding, Axelle Ponsonnet has documented the project’s progress behind the scenes
Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading tourist attraction—it has also become a reliable muse for painters, photographers and more
‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’ boasts a detailed virtual model of the cathedral—but not detailed enough for the restorers of the building
The painstaking work of archaeologists has uncovered two lost tombs and rare medieval masons’ marks
A small army of carpenters combined traditional craftmanship with digital design tools to rebuild the medieval roof frame known as “the forest”