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The Chichester gallery鈥檚 show looks at the relationships between artists and the depiction of these relationships 鈥� it鈥檚 novel, but chaotic.

I鈥檓 in Paris, watching as a parade of Orientalist paintings appear, move then vanish from the walls of what was once a steel foundry.

Oser La Libert茅, translated as 鈥淒are Freedom,鈥� is an extraordinary exhibition on the centuries-long fight against slavery in France and its colonies.

The Palace of Versailles houses the world鈥檚 largest collection of paintings by the artist Horace Vernet, who 鈥� though now grown rather obscure 鈥� was once renowned for his triumphal scenes of colonial battles, many commissioned by King Louis-Philippe I (r. 1830鈥�48).

In The Principle of Art and its Social Destination, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon lays out his perspective on art, sharply denouncing any motive except the representation of the proletariat鈥檚 wishes

鈥榊esterday鈥檚 ball was marvelous,鈥� the French painter Horace Vernet wrote to a friend in 1843.

Unlike in Switzerland where he is regularly celebrated, no French national museum to date has devoted an exhibition to Charles Gleyre. His role in French painting of the mid 19th century is still underestimated.

A painting by Polish artist Horacy Vernet (1789-1863) has been found in a collection once owned by an art expert who worked for Adolf Hitler.

Still feeling the sting of Napoleon's defeat in Moscow decades earlier, French writer Paul de la Garenne, describing a dramatic daguerreotype

Eliminate sex, war and religion from Western art and what鈥檚 left? Landscapes and portraits of people in fancy dress. Thin gruel there. War is the

The Battle of Isly was for M. Delacroix a wholly natural occasion to show the crowd [one of] these great equestrian portraits, the sketch for which