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Farther Afield: Art the Old-Fashioned Way Brian Allen Photograph courtesy of the Florence Academy of Art. I’ve been intrigued by the Florence Academy of Art in Italy for years. It’s a small, prestigious art school that revived the kind of education Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and George de Forest Brush had, as well as hundreds of other Americans who studied in Paris in the late nineteenth century. It’s an atelier and draws on teaching principles once used in the best French art schools but also by the Old Masters. I visited in September. There are 130 students from thirty-five countries occupying what was once an old customs house a short walk from the Arno River and the historical center of Florence. This year is its thirtieth anniversary. ....
Putin s Problems Are Real And It s Not Just Navalny Police at Jan. 23 protest in Moscow in support of Alexei Navalny - Mihail Tokmakov/SOPA Images/ZUMA Russia may not be heading toward a full-blown revolution, at least not yet. But the current wave of protests shouldn t be dismissed either. PARIS This Time Is Different was the title of a book devoted to the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2008. Could the same be said about the current situation in Russia? Depends on who you ask. On one extreme are those who say that the anti-Putin and Navalny liberation demonstrations are ....
Just because an artifact is ancient or historically significant or even sought after for years doesn t mean its owner is aware of it. Here are nine historical treasures that were used as common household items by owners who had no idea their random things were actually valuable antiquities. 1. Mazarin’s Gold Lacquer Chest // TV Stand and Bar In 1970, a French engineer bought a lacquer chest from his landlord in South Kensington, London, for £100. He used it as a TV stand for 16 years. When he retired to the Loire Valley in 1986, the chest came with him. In France, he used it as a bar. After his death in 2013, his survivors had specialists from the Rouillac auction house appraise his estate in Touraine and Philippe Rouillac recognized that the bar was a 17th-century Japanese gold, silver, copper, and mother of pearl chest that had once belonged to Chief Minister of the King of France, Cardinal Mazarin. ....
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