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Whatever your budget is, the tourist pass Venezia Unica is essential , you can ruin yourself in transit and museum if your not carefull. For € 60 per person you have access for 7 days…
Articles by Jean-Pierre Dubuc
Lyon plaster sculpture Study
The Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon have a large collection of plaster sculpture study, as this young man prostrate in kneeling position which seems to beg a threat or watch fatality. Unfortunately, I…
Bacchus on a Panther in India
Bacchus on a Panther in India. When you think about the Greek or Roman mythology your first guest is not to associate a country like India to it. According to the myth, Bacchus (also…
The God of Coligny
The God of Coligny is a bronze at the Museum of Gallo-Roman civilization in Lyon – Fourvière. This Statue was discovered in 1897 in the town of Coligny, it was made around the 1st century…
Perseus with the Head of Medusa in Florence
The Loggia dei Lanzi on the Piazza della Signora in Florence is the high focus of a visit to this historical and magnificent city . Perseus holding Medusa’s head by Cellini is one of the…
Statues of the gardens of the Villa Borghese
The park of Villa Borghese is a vast area north of Rome acquired in the late 16th century by the Borghese family. One of its main buildings is the Villa Medici and the other is…
The cannons of the Invalides courtyard of Honor
The art of ancien artillery can be fascinating … I’m not a big fan of weapons but the French classical canons in the Invalides Honor Court are impressive. In 1666, the Keller brothers perfected this type…
Neptune Fountain in Rome
There are about more than 2,500 fountains in Rome, from the smallest like the Fontana delle api up to the large and majestic as the one of Trevi. The Fountain of Neptune is one of…
Slave mask of the New Comedy
Masque d’esclave de la nouvelle comédie, 2ième siècles av J. -C. au musée national archéologique d’Athènes. Probablement les ancêtres de Pantalon et Polichinelle, les personnages du Néa Grecque étaient comme ceux de la Commedia Dell’arte,…
Ephebe supporting the ceiling at the Chateau of Fontainebleau
Stucco in the castles of France and Italy are often overlooked and admired in their overall rather than in details and that is somewhat normal because they mostly are decorative pieces around sculpture and paintings…
The gilt bronze statue of Hercules
The gilt bronze statue of Hercules in the Capitoline Museum in Rome shows him whit the golden apple of the Hesperides in his left hand, a fruit that is also associate to Heracles in the…
François Emile Ehrmann and Theodore Deck – Earthenware
This is an François-Emile Ehrmann and Théodore Deck majolica of a soldier inspired from Castel Durante at the Petit Palais in Paris. A majolica is a glossy ceramic or earthenware therein, and we find in…