In the image you have a screenshot with Facebook notifications. Immediately after notifying that a page has five new likes, Facebook sends a new notice stating that that page didn’t get any new like this week, recommending to publish a … Read More
Denon wing – 1 st floor – Daru – Room 75 The mythological legend of Psyche is well known: Psyche was a young girl of such an ideal beauty that Love itself was in love with her and he took … Read More
Richelieu wing – 2 nd floor – Flanders, 17th century – Room 19 Who would believe, in contemplating this placid female figure, that one of the many wives of Henry VIII, the terrible English monarch, is before his eyes! Nothing … Read More
Act like a duck in race: paddling like dickens underneath, but calm on the surface. Nicolae Sfetcu, 08.09.2017 – From a quote by Michael Caine
Greek period (Famous representation of the different schools of antiquity: it is recognized, in center, Plato pointing the finger of heaven (referring to his theory of Ideas) and Aristotle showing opposed the land (referring to his desire to anchor knowledge … Read More
Sully wing – 2 e étage – Collection Georges Thomy Thiéry (1823-1902) – Salle 72 The scene is probably happening in the tower of the steeple of a village church, a day of festooned feast. This is the moment to … Read More
Richelieu wing – 2nd floor – Holland, first half of the 17th century – Room 30 This painting should be called more exactly the Girl at the market; it is, in fact, the portrait of a fish merchant from Haarlem, … Read More
Candide, in the depths of his heart, had no desire to marry Cunegonde; but the extreme impertinence of the baron determined him to conclude the marriage; and Cunegonde pressed him so hard that he could not withdraw from it. He … Read More
Thomas. That’s how everyone knew him. If you had asked any of his acquaintances which is his family name, he would have thought a little, and then he would have shrugged, powerless. In the old days, when he was young, … Read More
Mr. and Mrs. Angerstein stand on a terrace from which one sees the trees of the garden with, at bottom, an escape on the campaign. Mrs. Angerstein sits in a rattan chair: her fine face, whose beauty is famous in … Read More
While Candide, the Baron, Pangloss, Martin, and Cacambo, recounted their adventures, they reasoned about the contingent or non-contingent events of this universe, which they disputed about the effects and the causes, about the moral evil and about the physical evil, … Read More
(The Crucifixion (1457-1459), Andrea Mantegna, tempera on wood) The Department of Paintings currently has about 7,500 paintings (of which 3,400 are exposed), covering a period that goes from the Middle Ages to 1848 (date of the beginning of the Second … Read More
