Picturing poverty in the 19th century
In her final book Linda Nochlin makes a case for painting that looks poverty in the eye
How the French Rothschilds turned their private passions into public gifts
A monumental new study argues that ‘the patronage of the French Rothschild family is a European history of taste’
The man who created ‘dictator chic’
Charles Percier may not be a household name, but his Empire style sums up the Napoleonic era – and has had imitators ever since
It’s time to look again at the golden age of sleaze and splendour
Was the French Second Empire as morally and artistically bankrupt as its critics made it out to be?
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The Louvre's Hubert Robert exhibition was a revelation
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