A non-exhaustive map to over two centuries of french art world shenanigans by Chiara Selene Ferrari Braun is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

This post is a transcription of Survival Treatise – Exams, which can be found in its original format in the pdf linked below. Some of the fonts utilised in the original may not be everyone’s cup of tea which is why I have decided to… Read more: Survival Treatise – Exams

 When we talk about collections we should be particularly diligent in our dating. Indeed, most collections even at present remain as unstable entities subject to various changes which are related to purchase, selling, and lending. These are the reasons why when we talk about the… Read more: The right to purchase – Part I of “Collecting and Patronage in Eighteenth century France”

This work is a reprise of an earlier attempt at a similar question which was sadly never finished as I worked on it under a spell of sickness which led to a writing process influenced by cough syrup and other lovely drug combinations in a… Read more: Collecting and Patronage in Eighteenth century France