In 1900 the Exposition Universelle drew thousands of art lovers to Paris, many arriving by train at the new Gare d’Orsay. Op­en­ed in 1986 and located on the Left Bank of the River Seine oppos­ite the Louvre, the building’s conversion into Musée d’Orsay was led by architects Bardon, Colboc and Phil­ippon. Now home to c100,000…

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Waddesdon was a typical village in Aylesbury Bucking­ham­shire. The medieval church in its centre reminds the town of its history that dates back to the times before the Norman conquest in 1066. royal silver service commissioned by George III, 1770sMade in France by goldsmith Robert-Joseph Auguste, 72 diners.Waddesdon ManorFerdinand de Roth­schild (1839–1898) linked the English…

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Mark RothkoMark Rothkowitz Rothko (1903–70) was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in Dvinsk Latvia, rejecting Jew­ish obser­v­ance as a teenager only once they were in the US. Yet his life in New York was inflect­ed by Jewish culture at nearly every turn, especially in the art­is­t­ic company he kept, including Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman…

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Mary Moser and the Italian artist Angelica Kauffman were among the 36 founder members of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768. Yet when Johann Zoffany was asked to paint The Academicians of the Royal Academy (1771–72; Royal Collection, London) en groupe, he could not include the two women because he had depicted the artists gathered…

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