The show, “Le Goût du Prince: Art and Prestige in 16th-Century France,” opened May 20 — three days before its curators graduated from Yale. It explores the relationship between art and power during ...

Archaeologists were working on “La Place,” a medieval northern city gate that was demolished in the 1700s, when they found a ...

A SELECTION OF FRENCH CHÂTEAUX EXHIBITING CONTEMPORARY ART IN FRANCE. Château de Chambord. About: Known for its distinct French Renaissance architecture, the Château de Chambord is located in ...

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a ...

While the grandest glories of the French Renaissance were the elaborate castles circling Paris and adorning the Loire Valley, down in Central France a much smaller art form flourished.

Early French Renaissance art receives the royal treatment in the first major U.S. exhibit devoted to the period which opened this week at the Art Institute of Chicago. Frst shown in Paris, the exhibit ...

A provincial museum in northern France on Friday showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had for decades ...

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The French art establishment used, similarly, to have little time for Claude Monet (1840-1926), regarded as a pretty but simplistic painter for American billionaires and Japanese tourists.

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CHICAGO (AFP) - Early French Renaissance art receives the royal treatment in the first major US exhibit devoted to the period which opened this week at the Art Institute of Chicago. First shown in ...