In this series, Lagniappe presents works from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. For 4,000 years, the history of glass has been the history of art ...

Maurice Brianchon was a French painter known as one of the Peintres de la Réalite ... In 1946, he was awarded the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and in 1949, he was appointed professor of painting ...

Maurice Pialat, a prickly but influential French film director ... Chirac called the director “a master of the cinematographic art [who] leaves a deep imprint on the history of French film.” ...

Maurice de Vlaminck used to be one of the “wild beasts” (fauves) who in 1905 led the vanguard of modern French art. Nowadays, he enjoys bellowing about the hollowness of it all. Paris painting ...

The team dates the paintings to around 1270, and believes they may have been commissioned by Isabella la Blanche, half sister of the English King Henry III, or her son Maurice who may have been ...

By Maurice Samuels LETTERS TO CAMONDO By Edmund ... whose home near the Parc Monceau became a museum of 18th-century French decorative art. Composed of a series of intimate letters to the long ...