How Rheims Cathedral's destruction in the First World War had a happy ending
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How Rheims Cathedral's destruction in the First World War had a happy ending
New book explores how the burnt cathedral created a 'profound intellectual rift' between Germany and France, then reconciliation
A monumental study of the heyday of Historicist painting
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A monumental study of the heyday of Historicist painting
This comprehensive volume looks at a genre popular in 19th-century Europe but long scorned in the art world
Many pictures but no big picture: book struggles to capture the extraordinary life of Harald Szeemann
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Many pictures but no big picture: book struggles to capture the extraordinary life of Harald Szeemann
Volume on pioneering curator takes an admiring, rather than a critically analytical, approach
How Uffizi 'super-director' Eike Schmidt transformed Florence's tourist magnet
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How Uffizi 'super-director' Eike Schmidt transformed Florence's tourist magnet
The museum's first foreign leader is halfway through his tenure and heading to Vienna in 2019