His tastes and readings led him towards poetry. Employed in an architectural firm, he learned to draw plans and make surveys of ancient motifs at the Louvre Museum. It was there that he discovered the world of painting.
His tastes and readings led him towards poetry. Employed in an architectural firm, he learned to draw plans and make surveys of ancient motifs at the Louvre Museum. It was there that he discovered the world of painting.
With nearly 10,000 works, the collection includes masterpieces of German Expressionism and Surrealism, important groups of geometric abstraction and neo-figurative painting from the 1980s.
In Lorraine, at the heart of the largest factories as well as confidential workshops, the secrets of crystal, the art of glass, ceramics and even violin making are revealed.
This French museum preserves the most important public collection of earthenware signed by Théodore Deck.
It's hard to imagine that less than a century ago MoMA was just an idea backed by a few wealthy women eager to introduce the European avant-garde to an American audience.
Built in 1340, the Doge's Palace was the seat of power and symbol of wealth during the glory of the Venetian Republic.
The title of Pantheon of the Italians is linked to the presence, inside the Basilica of Santa Croce, of about 258 funerary monuments that pay homage to great Florentine, Tuscan, Italian and foreign personalities.
The Boboli Gardens (Italian: Giardino di Boboli) is a historic park in the city of Florence, adjacent to the Pitti Palace.