Begun in 1248, completed in 1880, it's one of the largest churches in the world, a masterpiece of Gothic art, but also a building that embodies, through the succession of works projects  and...

Synopsis: The Louvre Museum asked architects Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini to design an audacious building in the Cour Visconti, to house the Department of Islamic Arts.  The result, which is like...

Synopsis: L’ Hotel de Soubise et l’hôtel de Rohan in the Marais district in Paris are two interpretations of the same model, the one of the private mansion “à la française”. Built by the same...

The early 17th-century Royal Mosque in Isfahan—a masterpiece of Persian architecture—resembles a petrified garden on a desert plateau. Oriented toward Mecca, it is a clearly religious edifice that is...

A number of factors contributed to the construction of the Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, a masterpiece of 18th-century European architecture: financial motivation, industrial innovation, and what its...

The Louvre was a rich and varied source of inspiration for the painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—a place of culture and controversy, of stimulation and emulation. At the Louvre with...

Charles Sterling (1901–1991) was a great specialist in medieval painting who recovered many medieval works from oblivion, and sometimes from anonymity. Together with Nicole Reynaud, he identified...