The exhibition devoted to Henri Matisse's mural work – the artist's least loved but also the least studied creation – that ...
Sister Jacques-Marie, a Dominican nun whose friendship with artist Henri Matisse led him to create the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France, died Monday. She was 84, according to Barbara Freed, a ...
VENCE, France - Regardless of our religious inclinations, when we travel, we wander through grand cathedrals and mosques, sometimes as though they were museums, awestruck by the light, the smell of ...
Quiet, unspoiled, and often overlooked — welcome to the softer side of the French Riviera. Vence carries the artistic legacy of Matisse and Chagall. La Turbie still bears the weight of Roman ambition, ...
The sorrow of the king (La tristesse du roi), 1952 by Henri Matisse.Credit: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP The building Henri Matisse called his “masterpiece” is in Vence, a ...
A lilting portrait of the most appealing French religious figure since Joan of Arc gave way to the Singing Nun, "A Model for Matisse" highlights Sister Jacques-Marie's chaste but powerful influence on ...
Matisse was aware that the cactuses of Vence produced red flowers as well as yellow, but by this stage he had decided to eliminate red almost entirely from the chapel, probably because he felt that ...
NICE, two hours by plane from both Dublin and Cork, offers not just an escape from the normally awful Irish weather, an immersion in the powder-blue Mediterranean, excellent restaurants and designer ...
On hot summer evenings in Vence in the south of France, the air is heady with the scent of lavender and pine. In the summer of 1951, there was the scent of something else, too: scandal. It had ...
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