Category: Documentaries
A street in Bac Ninh, Vietnam named after artist Hoang Tich Chu. Hoàng Tích Chù (1912-2003), born in Phù Lưu village, Từ Sơn town, Bắc Ninh Province, known for Vietnamese lacquer; a former director of Vietnamese Fine Arts Institute. In 2000, he was awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for his art and literature achievements.
More than five centuries ago, on October 31, 1512, the frescoes on the vault of the Sistine Chapel were inaugurated. Michelangelo's masterwork, these frescoes are set in the chapel erected at the request of Pope Sixtus IV in place of the medieval Capella Magna. Since the 15th century, this chapel has housed the Conclave, the ...
Rue Delambre and the plaques of Gauguin, Breton, and Hemingway. Hotel Delambre - where Paul Gauguin, André Breton, and Maurice Le Scouezec stayed in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, noted mostly for his colourful paintings that he created during the ten years he lived in Tahiti in French ...
Erwin Olaf (Netherlands, 1959–2023) has died at the age of 64 after a long battle with lung disease, according to information published on Wednesday, September 20 by several media outlets in the Netherlands, citing the artist's family. "World-famous photographer Erwin Olaf has died. His family has announced the news," reported NOS, the Dutch public broadcasting ...
Christie's Invitation to a conference on the special occasion of the release of Gustave Caillebotte, L'impressioniste inconnu by Stéphanie Chardeau-Botteri at Christie's Paris, 9 Avenue Matignon, Paris, 19 September 2023. Gustave Caillebotte by Stephanie Chardeau-Botteri For a long time, our families have known each other. For a long time, I had heard talk of the ...